WRITERS NIGHT OUT with Open Mike Reading WILL FEATURE AUTHOR MAREN O MITCHELL

Friday, September 13   

7 p.m. 

Brothers Willow Ranch Restaurant, Young Harris, GA  

Writers’ Night Out 

Featured Reader: 

Maren O. Mitchell 

award-winning poet 

and author of Beat Chronic Pain 

Open Mike: 

poetry or prose 

limit 3 minutes per reader  

sign up at door 

Second Friday of each month 

Brother’s Restaurant at Willow Ranch 

6223 Hwy 76 West, Young Harris, GA 

 (706) 379-1272 

wOpen to the public w Come early to order dinner w Sponsored by NC Writers’ 

Network West.  for more info, contact Karen Paul Holmes, Event Coordinator 

(404) 316-8466.

 

More about Maren O. Mitchell

Maren O. Mitchell’s poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, The Classical Outlook, Town Creek Poetry, Appalachian Journal, Red Clay Reader #4, The Arts Journal, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Pirene’s Fountain and elsewhere. Her work is included in The Southern Poetry Anthology, V: Georgia; Sunrise from Blue Thunder; Nurturing Paws; and Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, and is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika. Her nonfiction book is Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide (Line of Sight Press, 2012), and is available at the Curiosity Shop bookstore in Murphy, NC, and on Amazon.

Mitchell has taught poetry at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC, and catalogued at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. In 2012 she received 1st Place Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Georgia Poetry Society. For over twenty years, across five states, she has taught origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.

A native of North Carolina, in her childhood Mitchell lived in Bordeaux, France, and Kaiserslautern, Germany. After moving throughout the southeast U.S., she now lives with her husband in Young Harris, Georgia.