NC WRITERS NETWORK WEST JULY UPDATE

NC Writers Network West - updated July info for writers  interested in joining the NCWN West monthly poetry critique group. Also info about WRITERS NIGHT OUT, Join other writers, eat out and read your poems in the open mic reading.

Change of venue for Poetry Group July 2nd. 2015

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 08:21 PM PDT

The NC Writers' Network-West Poetry critique group facilitated by Janice Moore will not be held at Tri-County College in Murphy this month -July. The college is closed for the holidays. The group will meet, however, at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, NC at 6:00 p.m. Anyone who has trouble with steps  can enter at the end of the library across from the Post Office.  Observers are welcome. 

Join the Beebes for Writers’ Night Out, July 10

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 05:28 PM PDT

Husband and wife writers, Jo Carolyn and John Beebe, will entertain the audience with their fiction, poetry, and memoir.        An open microphone follows their reading for those who’d like to share their own writing. Writers’ Night Out, takes place at the Union CountyCommunity Center in Blairsville, GA on Friday evening, July 10. The event is free and open to the public. Food and drinks 

WRITING WORKSHOP FOR POETS

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A SATURDAY POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP WITH AWARD WINNING POETS TO BE HELD AT YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE

FEBRUARY 21, 2015 $20.00  fee  

click on NC Writers Network West website link above for full info

WRITERS' NIGHT OUT

If you live within driving distance, 

 Netwest Mountain Writers and Poets

invites you to Writers' Night Out

With Open Mic Reading

Writers' Night Features 2 Young Harris College Poets

Chelsea Rathburn and Jim May

When

Sat, October 18, 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Where

129 Union County Recreation Rd., Blairsville, Georgia 30512 (map)

Description

The Union County Community Center, located at 129 Union County Recreation Rd, Blairsville, Georgia 30512, off Highway 129 near the intersection of US 76. 

Come to the upstairs banquet room, which is accessible via stairs or the elevator. Phone (706) 439-6092.

Two featured readers followed by open mic. For open mic: sign up at the door, limit 3 minutes per poetry or prose reader

Schedule:

6:00-7:00pm: social hour

7:00 pm: featured readers

7:45 pm: Open mic

Held the second Saturday of each month, unless there are exceptions. 

Exceptions for 2014: May and October 

Note: Our calendar is updated to reflect the exceptions.

Facilitator: Karen Paul Holmes, kpaulholmes@gmail.com

October 18, 2014: Please come hear 

the newest poets in town!  

Chelsea and Jim both teach at Young Harris

College and are award-winning poets. 

Please Note: There's been a slight change 

to Writers' Night Out: We no longer have 

a formal dinner service. Many of us just meet 

in The View Grill upstairs at the Union County

Community Center in Blairsville, Georgia for 

dinner or drinks. Then we have our program 

on the first floor.

IMPORTANT NC WRITERS NETWORK WEST MESSAGE

announcement from Lucy Cole Gratton

Just a note to remind you that NetWest

will NOT have a reading at John Campbell

Folk School this month.  The Folk School’s

schedule is extremely crowded in July

and they have  not been able to fit us in

for several years. 

So this Thursday, relax and read some of

your own work.

Be ready to support Glenda Beall and

Estelle Rice in August.  That should be

worth waiting for.

WORKSHOP - PULLING POEMS TOGETHER INTO A COLLECTION READY FOR PUBLICATION

Hello Poets, 

I received a newsletter from City Lights Book Store.

They are announcing Coffee With the Poets, Thursday Nov 21 

at 10:30 -- 12:00, a special event with  Kathryn Stripling Byer 

leading  a workshop on pulling poems together into a collection

ready for publication. She will read some of her poems.  

Coffee with the Poets gathers every third Thursday at City Lights 

Bookstore in  Sylva, NC, and it is sponsored by North Carolina 

Writers Network WEST. If you are working on putting a poetry 

manuscript together, you might want to attend this special event. 

Kathryn Byer has published six books of poetry and served 

as N.C. Poet Laureate 2005-2009.

More information about Coffee With the  Poets in Jackson

County, contact Eon Alden at City Light Bookstore 

828 586-9499.

CHANGE IN PLANS AT COFFEE WITH THE POETS

I, Glenda Beall, will be sharing some of my poems and short prose atCoffee with the Poets on Wednesday this week, Nov 14, 10:30 a.m. - Café Touche on Main Street  in Hayesville NC.

 

We are so sorry the other Glenda is ill and we will miss her, of course.

 

Sign in and perhaps win a book.I hope you will come, bring a poem or two, or a short prose piece for open mic.

 

Some info about me, in case you didn't know:  

Glenda Beall lives in Hayesville, North Carolina where she teaches writing for adults, and she directs Writers Circle, a learning center for writers of all genres. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook,Now Might as Well Be Then in 2009. Her poem, Tomato Man, won first place in the Clay County Poetry contest sponsored by the Clay County Arts and Historical Society. She was a third place winner in the James Still Poetry Contest sponsored by the Appalachian Writers Association, and she has been awarded several honorable mentions in various literary contests. Her writing education began with classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School where she studied with outstanding authors and poets.

Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and literary anthologies for the past fifteen years. Most recently two poems were included inOn Our Own, Widowhood for Smarties, published by Silver Boomer Books.
Beall’s short stories and non-fiction has been most recently published in online journals, Muscadine Lines, a Southern Journal and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

For the past three years, she has taught memoir writing, creative writing and helped others accomplish their writing goals. She mentors students from her classes at Tri-County Community College, from classes at Writers Circle, her home studio, and she teaches private lessons as well.
Glenda Beall has been an active member of NCWN for sixteen years and serves as representative to the North Carolina Writers’ Network West for Clay County. 

    

NC Writers Network West Back in the Day

A living memory from out of the past.  This photo taken at  NC Writers Network Fall Conference many years ago in Asheville, NC. Photo shows four of NC Writers Network West's former Program Coondinators.  Glenda Beall former coordinator, Janice Townley Moore Clay County Representative and Monthly Poetry Critique Group Leader serving for 17 years, Nancy Simpson Co Founder and former coordinator, Shirley Uphouse former coordinator, and Kathryn Stripling Byer who is teaching the master poetry class at this year's fall conference, who  also served  as a former Netwest program coordinator.

LEAVES AT PEAK WITH WRITERS PICNICING ON LAKE CHATUGE

CELEBRATE LEAF PEAK AND POETRY on the same Sunday when NC Writers Network WEST gathers writers for their 20th Annual Picnic 

On the shores of Lake Chatuge, Clay County Recreation Park in Hayesville, NC

 On October 16, 2011, 2 pm, NCWN-West or Netwest will celebrate its 20^th anniversary.  All members and anyone interested in Writing or interested in learning more about NC Writers Network West  are invited.  You do not have to be a member to attend. The picnic will be in Hayesville, NC, at “Leaf Peak” at the Clay County Recreation Park (pavilion by the water).  

All those attending should bring a covered dish, chair, and drink (plates, napkins, and silverware will be provided). 

SPECIAL GUEST POET SCOTT OWENS

The meal will be followed by brief remarks from Program Coordinator Rosemary Royston, a reading from Guest Poet, Editor and Publisher Scott Owens, and then an open mike. 

Readings for the open mike session should consist of ONE PAGE of prose or two short poems per person.  Time limit is 2.5 minutes.  In order to accommodate as many readers as possible, please time your piece before reading.

Members can sell their books on the book table.

This is a golden opportunity to meet area writers and also a chance for you to come and read a sample of your writing.

OPEN MIC IS open to all writers, even non members.

Writers from the Southern Appalachian Mountains

Sixty-eight

writers from

the Southern

Appalachian

Mountains

are

celebrating

the

publication

of a new

anthology

of stories,

essays, and

poems

titled

ECHOES

ACROSS

THE BLUE

RIDGE

Edited by

Nancy Simpson

Introduction by

Robert Morgan.

Philip Sampson of Blairsville, GA made the photograph.

Katja Holmes of Atlanta formatted the book and designed the cover.

Steven Harvey, professor of English at Young Harris College and author of three books of personal essays, generously offered use of his work for the anthology. Kathryn Stripling Byer, former N.C. Poet Laureate, and Bettie M. Sellers, former Georgia Poet Laureate also donated three poems each.

Thomas Rain Crowe of the Tuckasegee community in western North Carolina, author of twenty books of original works, anthologies, and recordings also offered his essay, "Triple Negatives: Losing A Language."

Gary Carden, renowned playwright and story teller from Sylva, NC donated the proceeds from a special production of his play, "Birdell," to NCWN West to help with costs involved in publishing Echoes Across the Blue Ridge. Two of Carden’s stories appear in the book.

The anthology is dedicated to the memory of our Appalachian ballad poet Byron Herbert Reece. Two of his poems are included.

Questions and Answers:

How can I buy a copy?

Check your local bookstores in these North Carolina

counties: Cherokee County, Curiosity Book Store in Murphy

Clay County, Phillips and Lloyd Book Store on the square in Hayesville,

Jackson, City Lights Book Store and

Blairsville, Georgia, The Book Nook.

Copies may also be sold in bookstores in Haywood,

Henderson, Macon, Swain, Transylvania and on Qualla Boundary

or order on line at ncwriters.org.

How much does it cost?

$16.00.

How can I get my contributor's copy?

Contact your N.C.W.N. West representative listed at top NCWN West site to get your

contributor's copy. http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/

or get your contributor's copy at one of the anthology celebrations. Ask your

NCWN West Rep. for book signings and celebration information in your county.

The big party is scheduled at City Lights Book Store, Sylva, North Carolina,

August 8, 2010, 5:00 pm. Jackson County members and Kathryn Stripling Byer,

NCWN West's Program Coordinator will host the event.

Poets and Writers Reading Poems and Stories AT JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL

Local Writers to Read at John C. Campbell Folk School



Richard Argo







Brenda Kay Ledford





The North Carolina Writers Network West (Netwest) is happy to bring two local writers on June 25th. to the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown North Carolina. The readings will be held in the Keith House at 7:00 pm.


Brenda Kay Ledford, a native of Clay County, North Carolina, will delight all with her poetry drawn from life in these mountains. Her writing has appeared in Our State, Chicken Soup for the Soul, CAPPERS, JOURNAL OF KENTUCKY STUDIES, and other journals. She received the Paul Green Award from North Carolina Society of Historians for her poetry books, PATCHWORK MEMORIES and SHEW BIRD MOUNTAIN. Finishing Line Press published her third book, SACRED FIRE. Brenda Kay is a member of North Carolina Writers Network, North Carolina Poetry Society, Byron Herbert Reece Society, Georgia Poetry Society and listed with A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS AND FICTION WRITERS.


Richard Argo of Murphy, North Carolina is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in CAROLINA COUNTRY and LIGHTS IN THE MOUNTAINS. It is not uncommon to find bicycling as the subject of Richard's work. He brings interest to everyday things in his musings. Richard is the facilitator of the Netwest Prose Group and is a member of long standing in the North Carolina Writers Network.

article written by Mike Michelle Keller
for N.C. Writers Network West

GLENDA BARRETT POET OF THE MONTH - NOVEMBER

Poet, Glenda Barrett is a native of Hiawassee, Georgia. She is the author of a new poetry collection from Finishing Line Press  (Georgetown, Kentucky 2008) under the title When the Sap Rises. Her poems have been published in Nantahala Review, Kaleidoscome, Hard Row to Hoe, Red River Review and other literary magazines.

Glenda Barrett has studied poetry for over ten years through writing workshops and community college poetry writing classes with Nancy Simpson. She is a long time member of N.C. Writers Network West and regularly attends the monthly Netwest poetry critique group led by Janice Townley Moore.

Read three of her poems from  When the Sap Rises below. I hope you will want to order her book.  You can get it  at finishinglinepress.com or on amazon.com.