NCWN-WEST MEMBER, JEANNETTE CABANIS-BREWIN IS WINNER OF ROSE POST CREATIVE NONFICTION CONTEST.
https://www.glendacouncilbeall.com/2020/02/jeannette-cabanis-brewin-wins-rose-post.html#.XlcutCFKiM8
Congratulations to Jeannette and the other winners.
Read more.
https://www.ncwriters.org/index.php/our-members/network-news/11065-rpcncw-20
Writers and poets in the far western mountain area of North Carolina and bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee post announcements, original work and articles on the craft of writing.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Short Story published in Bewildering Stories
News from Bob Brooks. Congratulations.
Dear Writers:
Good news from the
ink-stained dungeon: my short story "A Blanket of Well and Woe" is in
the current issue of Bewildering
Stories, an ezine devoted to speculative fiction. This story has only
racked up four rejections before finding a home. My thanks go to those of
you who helped revise and frame the piece.
The link is www.bewilderingstories.com.
This tale that asks
what you do if your benevolence, your good deed, puts you outside the
law. Dr. Padeema Sarey made his choice.
I hope you enjoy
and use the link at the bottom on the web site to leave any comments.
Bob
R.R. Brooks
Author: fantasy, mystery, thrillers
Justi the Gifted
The Clown Forest Murders
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Registration now open: Carol Crawford writing class March 26, Moss Memorial Library
Where: Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC
Sponsored by NC Writers Network West
Instructor: Carol Crawford
Fee: $40.00
Time: 1:30 - 4:30 Thursday - March 26
He Said, She Said: Tackling Dialogue in Prose
Carol Childers Crawford is the owner of Carol Crawford Editing and author of The Habit of Mercy, Poems about Daughters and Mothers.
Carol has led workshops and taught creative writing for the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Dahlonega Literary Festival, The Red Clay Writers’ Conference, The Writers’ Circle, the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and the Carrollton Writers’ Club. She has been a volunteer with the Blue Ridge Writers’ Conference since it began more than twenty years ago.
She has been published in the Southern Humanities Review, the Chattahoochee Review, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies among others. Originally from Texas, she holds a journalism and English degree from Baylor University.
Through teaching and editing, Carol finds joy in helping people tell their stories.
She spends her free time doing needlepoint and badgering county commissioners about library funding.
Contact Glenda Beall - glendabeall@msn.com for registration information
Saturday, February 15, 2020
A Literary Trail: stories and poems from Mississippi to North Carolina, author readings by Mary Ricketson & Mary Jo Dyre, Murphy Art Center, Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Mississippi to North
Carolina, a literary trail, featuring:
Meet the authors for selected readings, book signing, and reception:
Murphy Art Center, 33 Valley River Ave, Murphy NC 28906
Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 5 PM
Written in a personal manner, these poems engage an audience by speaking to diversity, understanding, and trust in context of the lives of people who were less aware than many of us today.
Living near Murphy NC, Ricketson is inspired by nature and her work as a mental health counselor, Her poetry published in journals and her books: Disorgananza, private publication 2000, chapbook, I Hear the River Call my Name, and three full length collections, Hanging Dog Creek, Shade and Shelter, and Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian.
Ricketson writes a monthly column, Women to Women, for The Cherokee Scout. She is a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor in private practice, and an organic vegetable, herb, and blueberry farmer.
Mary Jo Dyre native Mississipian, living in the Murphy area of North Carolina since 1979, officially entered the arena as a writer as she finished and published DARK SPOT from a partial manuscript left by her brother, Arnold Dyre, at his death in 2017. DARK SPOT is the fourth book in the Jake Baker Mystery Series.
Long before picking of the pen of fiction writing, Dyre taught 10th and 11th English in the Marks, MS, then World Literature, Writing and Art Appreciation at Tri-County Community College. She now has a far-reaching reputation in education with the founding of The Learning Center, first as a private school in 1983 and then with its conversion to a North Carolina Charter School in 1997.
Dyre is currently developing a strategic facility project for the school, writes monthly columns for two Mississippi newspapers, The Grenada Star and The Coffeeville Courier, and is working on her next novel SPRINGHEADS. The work is a blend of history and mystery that promises to intrigue her growing base of both Mississippi and North Carolina fans
This event is sponsored by Cherokee County Arts Council and the Jackie Ward Foundation, supporters of the arts in far western North Carolina.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Literary events in Sylva!
Tonight--February 13th--at 7:00 p.m., NCWN Swain rep Ben Cutler is hosting an open reading at Nantahala Brewing of Sylva: "Pints, Prose, and Poetry" with a special Valentine's Day love/anti-love theme. Come out to tell your stories, drown your sorrows, and celebrate love well won at 5 Grindstaff Cove Road in Sylva.
Next Friday, February 21st, is Open Mic at the incomparable City Lights Bookstore on Spring Street in Sylva, hosted by City Lights, the Jackson branch of NCWN-West and Jackson rep Catherine Carter. Come out again for wine, dessert, and a supportive crowd to cheer for your work!
Monday, February 10, 2020
Want to be a better writer?
March 26 - Carol Crawford - instructor
Fee: $40
June 25 - Patricia Zick
Registration must be made ten days before class date.
Contact glendabeall@msn.com
Send check, $40.00, made to NCWN West
Mail to: PO Box 843, Hayesville, NC 28904
He Said, She Said: Tackling Dialogue in Prose
This interactive workshop will help you bring your characters to life with dialogue that is authentic, clear, and compelling. Capture the flavor of personality, place, and culture through speech that sounds real. In-class exercises will cover word choice, tone, action beats, what to leave out, and format.
Fee: $40
Fee: $40
April 23 - Catherine Carter
Description:
Bracket and Hinge: Strengthening Poems’ Sonic Level. In this 2-hour lecture/workshop, Catherine Carter will use contemporary poems to discuss a few of the ways in which a poem can be built around the sounds of single words, model one possible process for revising a poem in this way, and encourage participants to do this with their own works. Participants should bring hard copy of one or two of their own short poems to work on.Fee: $40
June 25 - Patricia Zick
Patricia Zick's workshop, "The Road to Publishing" will explore the different choices for publishing a book. Then she will delve into the step-by-step process for self-publishing a work of nonfiction or fiction using Amazon’s publishing platform. Ms. Zick, the author of twenty-five published books in a variety of genres, will demonstrate how to prepare a manuscript, provide definitions for publishing jargon, and walk through the process for uploading a book for both Kindle and paperback publication to the online retail site.
Fee: $40Registration must be made ten days before class date.
Contact glendabeall@msn.com
Send check, $40.00, made to NCWN West
Mail to: PO Box 843, Hayesville, NC 28904
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
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