Network West

Network West serves Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Macon, Swain, Jackson, Transylvania, Haywood, and Henderson Counties in North Carolina, as well as bordering counties in South Carolina, North Georgia and East Tennessee. NCWN members in these areas are invited to participate in the numerous NetWest events. NetWest offers support and encouragement through classes, workshops, readings, an online discussion group, and other programs.

Visit the Network West Blog at http://www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com

Netwest Blog

Netwest Mountain Writers and Poets

Mountain writers of North Carolina, North Georgia, East Tennessee and Western South Carolina continue to publish, teach, promote, read and network together as members of Netwest. Here we facilitate their efforts and publish their work.We post work from our favorite poets, writers, playwrights, teachers and readers, as well as work from our NCWN West members.

Poets and Writers Reading Poems and Stories at JCCFS
Michelle Keller

Paul Newman and Me

Paul Newman Has Died, and I Have Regrets
Appalachian Poets

New Magazine on the Market
Recently Michael Beadle of Canton, NC read at the John C. Campbell Folk School....
Gary Carden has a new DVD coming out

Congratulations to Gary Carden whose new DVD will be...

Hat's Off!

...to Bethany Chaney. Her essay "Learning the Alphabet" has won the William Saroyan Society's Centennial Prize for Creative Nonfiction. http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/clist2008.htmThe prize includes a $500 award, and the essay will be published in the fall publication of In the Grove. Also, the essay will be read over the air on KFCF-FM in Fresno at 8 pm on August 12th.