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1   Link   Carteret Writers (Emerald Isle, Morehead City)
Founded in 1984, Carteret Writers is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating camaraderie between writers and promoting the art of writing. Carteret Writers meets the second Tuesday of each month from September through April for lunch and a speaker. Please join us at the Ruby Tuesday in Morehead City from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. All are welcome, but you get perks if you join our group: discounted contest entry fees; free copy of Shoal, the yearly publication of our contest’s winners; free newsletter; and entrance to our critique groups. Look forward to seeing you. Contact: Sarah Maury Swan, President dale4sarah@suddenlink.net 252-288-4928. 		1352
2   Link   Charlotte Writers Club (Charlotte)
The Charlotte Writers’ Club meets the third Tuesday of each month, September through May, except for the second Tuesday in December, at 7:00 pm at Providence United Methodist Church at the corner of Providence and Sharon Amity Roads. Meetings feature guest speakers, contest winners, networking, refreshments. Guests welcome. See website for contact information and dues. 		1643
3   Link   The Fractured Writer: Creating Community -- Authoring Success (Greensboro)
In 2011, The Fractured Writer will present a year-long series designed to guide and support writers in making a sustained commitment to their writing projects. This four-part series of year-long workshop intensives is designed to catch writers where they find themselves and to chart a course toward achieving these goals. The Sunday Series offers writers with busy
schedules an opportunity to receive support on their creative journeys as they complete a project in an intimate, supportive environment. 		564
4   Link   High Country Writers (Boone)
Energizing writers since 1995, HCW supports writers in all genres and in all stages of writing career. Meets at Watauga County Library, Boone, NC. 		595
5   Link   Hillsborough Writing Groups (Hillsborough)
EXPERIENCED, DETERMINED WRITERS. Three writing groups are available in Hillsborough; these ongoing groups offer support and tough peer critique in a trusting atmosphere. We encourage productive, committed writers to work on stories or book-length manuscripts. We seek serious writers only who will attend regularly. A memoir by one member was published in May 2006; another member's novel debuted in November 2008, and a novel by a third member will be published by Viking in early 2011. The leader of these groups has a two-book deal with Kensington Publishing. Tuesdays from 10:00 am-noon or 7:00-9:00 pm, and Wednesdays from 10:30 am–12:30 pm, in a private home in Hillsborough (easily accessible from I-40 and I-85). The cost is $160 every eight weeks. For more information: 919-644-1239.
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6   Link   Mountain Writers NC (Waynesville)
This group aims to advance the professional interests of creative writers through networking and advocacy. They champion professional education, publication, contests, awards, and workshops.


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7   Link   NCWN West Poetry Group
NCWN West Poetry group meets the first Thursday of each month at Tri-County Community College, Murphy, NC. Contact Janice Moore, 706-379-3111. The group gives gentle but instructive criticism of poems read at the meeting. Visitors are welcome to observe. 		504
8   Link   Pittsboro Writers' Morning Out (Pittsboro)
Meets monthly at Davenport & Winkleperry, 18A East Salisbury St., in beautiful downtown Pittsboro. See website for more details. 		500
9   Link   Raleigh Fiction Writing Group (Raleigh)
Raleigh Fiction Writing Group welcomes active writers of book-length and short fiction who are dedicated to growing as writers in a non-threatening yet challenging environment. We gather twice a month to share successes and rejections, critique one another’s work, and celebrate the joys of writing. If you are interested in joining, contact Trina at: trina.l.allen@gmail.com. 		916
10   Link   The Sea Quills (Wilmington/Cape Fear)
The Sea Quills are a Wilmington area writing group that meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, from 2-4 PM. This is a very committed group of writers who are either already published or striving to become published. Our feedback process is key and consists of excellent critique of members’ writing delivered in a supportive, encouraging way. We follow the guidelines of the book A Group of Ones Own: Nurturing the Woman Writer. We also are the organizers and facilitators of the NCWN monthly meeting of Wilmington/Cape Fear region. (Not to be confused with the groups’ regular meetings as writers.) For more info, please contact Charlene Pollano at charvp@hotmail.com.
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11   Link   Transylvania Writers Alliance (Brevard)
First and third Wednesday of each month, 3:00-5:00 pm. For more information and guidelines for critiques, please e-mail Wayne Drumheller at wd2999@yahoo.com. 		721
12   Link   Writers' Group of the Triad (Greensboro)
Writers Group of the Triad has eight genre subgroups and three affiliate subgroups, which provide a meeting place for poets, writers of book and short-story length fiction, and nonfiction for adults and children, as well as songwriters and screenwriters. Most of the groups meet monthly at the Sternberger Artist Center, Studio 5, 712 Summit Ave., Greensboro.Visitors are welcome. Annual dues $30. Contact: Call 336-665-9494 or visit the website at www.triadwriters.org.
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13   Link   Hamlet's Hideaway
summer writing retreat held in Denmark 		39

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