Deep in the Southern Appalachian Mountains - NCWN West Writers Celebrates Twenty Years of their professional writing organization known as NC Writers Network West.

Imagine - Twenty years for us "unknown" writers of the NC State. Twenty years later, we are still about the business of writing. If anything true can be said,  it is this. We consistently celebrate writing. Against all odds, our writers are still here, still writing, still publishing, never winning of course, but that could change. I  overheared a conversation between two poets who were agreeing, a composit of their statements:  "I'd rather see a review of my book in Prairie Schooner than to be a finalist in  the I NEVER HEARD OF IT contest."

 On the shores of Lake Chatuge, near Hayesville, North Carolina on Sunday October 16, 2011

Rosemary Royston, Program Coordinator

Rosemary Royston and Susan Anderson

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Shirley Uphouse, former Program Coordinator

 
Invited Guest, visiting the area, Poet and Publisher Scott Owens

Poet Carole Richard Thompson ( NCWN West's Georgia Representative) and her husband, Norm

Poet Brenda Kay Ledford, Judy and Bob Grove

Left to right - Janet Bentley, Linda Smith, Joan Howard, 

Brenda Kay Ledford, Nancy Simpson

Linda M. Smith

Karen Paul Holmes and Maren O.Mitchell
















Visitor, Janet Bentley, Peg Russell, Janice Moore