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Monday, 04 August 2008 08:11 |
The North Carolina Writers' Network is again pleased to offer our members the chance to show their books to 500 Southeastern booksellers - not to mention around 1500 book editors, publishers, authors, and other industry professionals - at the 2008 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Trade Show, September 26 - 28, in Mobile, Alabama. The SIBA Trade Show is the only time of the year when this many booksellers and book businesspeople will be together in one place, looking for books to sell. The cost is $50 per title, or $125 for three titles. You can send up to 12 copies of each book, along with promotional materials or order forms, or you can send only promotional materials to be displayed in place of books.
Please note that these books and/or materials will be given away - not sold - at the show, and no books or materials will be returned.
The Network's table at the trade show will be staffed by Executive Director Ed Southern and Board President Nicki Leone, both of whom have extensive experience working SIBA trade shows as exhibitors and booksellers.
To have your book(s) on the table, call the Network at 704.246.6314 or register online here: (registration is now closed)
You must also fill out and return the SIBA table reservation form with your books here:
(registration is now closed)
All books and materials must be received by September 15, and space on the table is limited, so please sign up now to take advantage of this special opportunity.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 August 2008 07:29 )
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Written by Ed Southern
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 09:35 |
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The North Carolina Writers' Network's 2008 Elizabeth Daniels Squire Summer Writing Residency was held last weekend at Queens University of Charlotte. 32 writers got to spend three days writing, reading other's writing, working on writing, and talking about writing. "I'm overwhelmed at how well the weekend went for me," attendee John Minter said. "This workshop was truly a success. It is one I will always remember." Writers from across North Carolina participated in one of three weekend-long workshops in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The three instructors - Aaron Gwyn for fiction, Julie Funderburk for poetry, and Cynthia Lewis for creative nonfiction - all teach at Charlotte-area colleges and universities, and were participating in an NCWN program for the first time. "The tone for our (fiction) workshop was such that emails between us have already filled my inbox," Susan Lawson said Monday morning. "This doesn't happen unless the instructor creates that working, helpful atmosphere." In addition to the workshops, attendees participated in a "Table Talk" discussion about the publishing process, which featured a Q-and-A with editor Amy Rogers and marketing manager Betsy Thorpe of Novello Festival Press. They also attended readings by each of the instructors, open-mike readings for attendees on Friday and Saturday nights, and a Saturday-evening picnic with food from Price's Chicken Coop, a nationally recognized Charlotte institution. "This weekend was exhausting, but so worthwhile," Paul Austin, whose memoir Something for the Pain will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. in September, said. "I appreciate all of the insightful comments the workshop had for my piece, and I know the piece will be much stronger after the next revision." "I am so excited I went to Queens," Constance Scott said. "I feel like I am really grounded in my writing; before the residency, I was floundering. Gosh, I feel like I have some wonderful contacts now, and it's such a great feeling." |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:05 )
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 10:38 |
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Charlotte, NC – Registration is open at www.ncwriters.org for the North Carolina Writers’ Network’s 2008 Elizabeth Daniels Squire Summer Residency, July 25 – 27 on the campus of Queens University of Charlotte. Writers from Queens, UNC-Charlotte, and Davidson College will teach intensive, three-day workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The residency will also feature faculty and student readings, a publishing forum, and a picnic at Freedom Park with an outdoor reading. Registrants stay on-campus to further an atmosphere of collegiality, although “commuting students” are also accepted for the program at a reduced rate.
 “We’re very excited to offer the Summer Residency again,” said NCWN executive director Ed Southern. “Past attendees have called this their favorite of all the programs that the Network offers.”
Julie Funderburk, who came to Queens in 2003 after serving as assistant director of UNC-Greensboro’s MFA program, will teach the poetry workshop, which “will focus on giving participants specific ways to analyze and classify poems.”
 UNC-Charlotte assistant professor of English Aaron Gwyn, whose novel The World Beneath will be published in 2009 by W. W. Norton & Co., will teach a fiction workshop that “will explore what successful authors do to start their novels and stories, as well as potential pitfalls they avoid . . . and discuss effective ways of shaping the beginning of novels or stories to attract the attention of agents and editors.”
 Cynthia Lewis, the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Davidson and part-time bartender, will teach a creative nonfiction course designed to “focus primarily on group review of participants’ writing samples and secondarily on topics relevant to the craft of creative nonfiction.”
The 2008 Summer Residency will be the first held outside the Triangle. Southern said the decision to move the program’s venue around the state, as well as to shorten it from five days to three, was made to make the Summer Residency more accessible to a greater number of writers.
“The Summer Residency generates such passion among the writers who attend that we felt we had to make it easier for more writers to sign up,” Southern said. “This year, not only does the residency cost less, but you don’t have to take a week off work to attend.
“Several of last year’s attendees told me it was so much fun, we should set up cameras and pitch it as a reality show,” Southern added. “I don’t think I want to know why.”
Information on registration and fees is available at www.ncwriters.org. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 11 July 2008 05:01 )
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 15:00 |
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The sun shone, the flowers bloomed, and writers from across North Carolina – and the North Country (seriously: one guy came all the way from here) – met in Greensboro last Saturday for the Network’s 2008 Spring Conference. Those writers enjoyed their choice of eight workshops on the craft and business of writing, as well as a panel of editors and publishers, a chance to meet exhibiting journals and presses, the inaugural “Lunch with an Author,” a keynote reading of poetry by prize-winning poet Linda Gregg, and faculty readings by Lee Zacharias, Valerie Nieman, and Anjail Rashida Ahmad. “I was pleased with my first conference as director of the Network,” Ed Southern said. “No natural disasters, nothing caught fire, and the publishers’ panel didn’t end in a brawl. What more could you ask for?” “Lunch with an Author” allowed attendees to sign up Saturday morning to take one of the faculty members to lunch in groups of no more than 10, so that they could discuss issues that writers face and get to know one another in a relaxed, informal setting. “There’s a reason we’re called the ‘North Carolina Writers’ Network,’” Southern said. “The best thing we can do for writers is bring them together with other writers, at all levels of experience, from all across the state, nation, and planet. We’re always looking for new and better ways to accomplish that.” “The spring conference is a wonderful opportunity to meet other writers and just talk about writing - what we love about it, what we hate about it, and why we do it,” Marilyn Wolf of Greensboro said. “I left feeling energized to tackle my own writing with new tools from the workshops and greater confidence from all the support.” Dianne Farris of Fayetteville said, “I learned more than I thought was possible in one afternoon. Travis Mulhauser’s presentation of plot & character (in fiction) was good. In particular, I liked the literature selections he used to demonstrate the different aspects of development. He picked authors with strong, unique voices. From Lewis Nordan to Raymond Carver, there was bound to be something that stood out for everyone. Mark Smith-Soto’s (poetry) workshop was outstanding as well. I hate to admit it but, I’m not a huge poetry fan. I was attracted to Mark’s workshop for two reasons. First, as a member of a critiquing group that does poetry, it’s helpful to have some understanding of how poetry works. Second, I need to learn how to insert effective images into my short stories. I left Mark’s presentation with a little of both. I also gained an appreciation for poetry in general, something I thought was impossible. In all, my experience at the conference was very positive and I feel lucky to have been able to go.” Jan Parker of Fuquay-Varina said, “Once again, our wonderful Writers’ Network provided an impressive array of interesting and high-level classes for almost every different writing discipline. Coupled with the opportunity to meet and learn from published authors, well-known professors, editors of important review magazines and book publishers based here in NC, we were able to network with other writers from across the state. Plain and simple, it was the best Spring Conference I've ever attended. Like my country cousins say, it were good!” Paul Austin of Durham, fresh from having his book Something for the Pain accepted for publication in September 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company, said, “I attended a lecture at the NCWN Spring Conference titled 'The Writer/Author Divide: The Basics of Marketing Your Book and Yourself.' The lecture provided a solid framework for thinking about book publicity, along with specific tips on how to promote your book. At each stage of my writing career, the NCWN has provided just what I've needed to know." |
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 09:51 |
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 Bob Mustin of Asheville, NC, is the winner of the 2008 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award for his essay “Grandpa Tom’s Cane.” Mustin will receive a prize of $300 from the North Carolina Writers’ Network, as well as possible publication in The Rambler magazine.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:08 )
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Link Round-Up
Here’s a round-up of interesting links that have come my way over the last couple of weeks.
Here, U.S. News & World Report examines the professional benefits of social networking sites like Facebook.
While here, Joshilyn Jackson examines the somewhat less-professional benefits.
On BiblioBuffet, author Lev Raphael takes on the writer’s archenemy: the intrusive copy editor.
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You might be a writer . . .
Courtesy of J.D. Rhoades’s blog, signs that you might be a writer.
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The Network at SIBA
If you haven’t been to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show, you may not realize what a great opportunity the Network started offering today.
In my past life with John F. Blair, Publisher, I attended every SIBA trade show but one since 1999. There is no better opportunity for a writer in the South to [...]
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Hat's Off!
| ...to Ann Barnhill. She currently has a poem online at Poetry Southeast and will have another in the spring, 2007 issue. Another poem has been accepted in the antholgy, Mourning Sickness, and an essay has been accepted for the anthology, A Quite Place. |
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