Saturday, January 26, 2019

Request for NCWN-West members to read at Coffee with the Poets and Writers meetings, for 2019, Hayesville, NC

Glenda Beall is setting up the schedule for featured members of NCWN-West to read at Coffee with the Poets and Writers for 2019. The event will begin in March and go through November with featured readers. Some months we will have two readers and some months we will have one. The meetings are at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, NC on the third Wednesday of the month at 10:30 AM.

Joan Howard is the facilitator and Carroll Taylor will doing publicity. There will be an article placed in the local newspapers.  If you are not from Clay, Cherokee, Towns, and Union, publicity will try to get an article in your local newspaper if you get them the contact information. If you have a book to promote, that is great. Bring copies to sell and sign. The event usually has visitors from the community who are not already members, some who just want to hear the reading.


CWPW has Brenda Kay Ledford reading for April Joan Howard for June, and tentatively, Charlie Pearson for March. Some other months are open; please check with Glenda Beall at glendabeall@msn.com for the current schedule. If two readers want to read on the same day, let Beall know. The event has a good attendance and everyone enjoys the Open Mic.


 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Dates and Readers for 2019, for The Literary Hour, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC

Here are the readers and dates for the updated 2019 Literary Hour readings, at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. You will notice that most months will have 3 readers, our best attempt to accommodate everyone who asked to read, so we have two months that can add another reader. We will start promptly at 7:00 PM, finishing by 8:00 or 8:15 PM.

Please contact Mary Ricketson for issues regarding this event at: maryricketson311@hotmail.com.



Wed, 3-20-19         Joan Howard

                                    Natalie Grant

                                    Mary Ricketson



Wed, 4-17-19          Bob Grove

                                    Carroll Taylor

                                    Joan Gage



Wed, 5-15-19          Carol Lynn Jones

                                    Kanute Rarey

                                    Rosemary Royston



Wed, 6-12-19          Brenda Kay Ledford

                                    Richard Cary

                                    Maren Mitchell



Thurs, 8-22-19       Karen Paul Holmes

                                    Carol Crawford

                                    Kenneth Chamlee



Thurs, 9-19-19       Martha O. Adams

                                    Loren Leith

                                    Glenda Barrett



Thurs, 10-17-19     Mary Mike Keller

                                    Glenda Beall



Thurs, 11-21-19      Janice Moore

                                    Linda Jones


Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Brenda Kay Ledford's essay appeared on "Good Life Tea"

Brenda Kay Ledford's essay, "Irish Tea," appeared on the blog, "Good Life Tea," (January 4, 2019).

https://www.goodlifetea.com/blogs/news/irish-tea

Monday, January 21, 2019

Glenda Barrett's poem, "I'd like to write about lovely things," has been accepted for publication in Front Porch Review in April 2019

Glenda Barrett's poem, "I'd like to write about lovely things," has been accepted for publication in the Front Porch Review, an online literary magazine. Her poem will be in the magazine's April 2019 publication.


Glenda Barrett, a native of Hiawassee, Georgia, is a poet, writer, and visual artist. Her work has been widely published since 1997 and has appeared in: Woman's World, Farm & Ranch Living, Country Woman, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Journal of Kentucky Living, Nantahala Review, Rural Heritage, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Kaleidoscope Magazine and many more. 


Barrett is the author of two poetry books, When the Sap Rises,  published by Finishing Line Press, in 2008 and The Beauty of Silence, published by Aldrich Press, in 2017. Both books are available on Amazon.com. Glenda's artwork is online at Fine Art America.

 

Barrett worked many years in various healthcare system jobs and retired due to a form of Muscular Dystrophy. She is very grateful to be able to devote her time to the two things she loved as a child, painting and writing. She has two grown children and two grandchildren, and lives with her husband of forty-two years in the North Georgia mountains.