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Monday, 08 March 2010 21:01 |
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 Greensboro, NC—Fred Chappell, described as North Carolina’s “resident genius,” will deliver the keynote address at the 2010 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference, which takes place Saturday, April 24, from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. in the Elliott University Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The annual event, cosponsored by UNCG’s Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, draws writers from across North Carolina and beyond for intensive workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, poetry, and publishing, led by distinguished writing faculty. This year’s conference will also feature a Publishing Panel with book and journal editors, a Faculty Reading, an Open Mike Reading for conference attendees, and “Lunch with an Author,” in which attendees share lunch and personal conversation with one of the authors on the faculty.
In 2004, Fred Chappell retired after 40 years in the UNCG English department. During this time he published 26 books of poetry, fiction, and critical commentary. His awards include the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize, the North Carolina Award in Literature, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, eight Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Awards, the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers (Best Foreign Book Prize) from the Academie Francaise, the Mihai Eminescu Medal from the Republic of Moldova, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize. He was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2006. He served as North Carolina’s Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2002. His latest book of poetry is Shadow Box, published in 2009 by LSU Press. His latest work of fiction, Ancestors and Others: New and Selected Stories, was published last year by St. Martin’s Press. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Greensboro.
Conference participants may select from a variety of half- and full-day workshops, including “Inspiration Station,” a poetry workshop with poet and Asheville Poetry Review editor Keith Flynn; “Gimme a Break: Breaking Into Nonfiction Publishing,” with author and publisher Malcolm Campbell; “The Morning After: Reclaiming Your Life as a Writer” with NC State University professor Sheila Smith McKoy; “The North Carolina Screenwriter, and Screenwriter as Filmmaker” with Nathan Ross Freeman, the director of the award-winning feature film Mr. Bones; and “The Greatest Writing Prompt Ever” with poet Scott Owens.
Other instructors include Holly Goddard Jones, Chris Roerden, and John McNally on fiction, and Cynthia Nearman and NCWN executive director Ed Southern on nonfiction.
Registration for the conference—made possible with support from UNC Greensboro and the North Carolina Arts Council—is $99 for Network members, $150 for nonmembers.
To register, click here, or call 919-251-9140 for more information.
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 March 2010 21:09 |
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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Friday, 05 March 2010 16:54 |
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Joan Carris' latest book, Wild Times at the Bed and Biscuit, was put on the Smithsonian Notable Books List for 2009. |
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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 16:48 |
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Love in Mid Air
By Kim Wright
Grand Central, $23.99 (320p)
ISBN 978-0-446-54044-5
Available March 10, 2010
Publisher's Weekly says "Wright hits it out of the park in her debut, an engaging account of a woman contemplating divorce. Despite finally getting her husband, Phil, to attend counseling sessions with her, Elyse Bearden realizes her marriage is dead in the water. Though Phil’s a doting father and a decent man, he’s also the occasional jerk who snickers at his wife in lingerie and is generally indifferent to her. Elyse already knows she’s going to leave her husband when she meets Gerry Kincaid and soon begins an affair that allows her to escape from the crushing banality of her suburban life. Serving as Elyse’s foil is her beautiful best friend, Kelly, now married to an older, wealthy man. While the idea of housewives complaining about their husbands over lunch may strike some as a conventional hen-lit trope, Wright conveys friendships and the blasé everyday with authenticity and telling detail, while passages depicting Elyse’s inner life are rife with the same wit and insight that infuse the dialogue."
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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 20:24 |
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Hats Off to Wilson Roberts. His short story, "Against the Dying of the Light" has been accepted for publication by the Massachusetts Review. |
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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 20:13 |
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Title: Surviving Unemployment Devotions To Go
by Marietta Taylor
ISBN: 1-934626-13-9 or 978-1-934626-13-9
Publisher: Extreme Diva Media
Price: $6.95
Available for purchase at www.edmbookstore.com or www.mariettataylor.net
Description:
Surviving Unemployment Devotions to Go Positive Advice for a Negative Situation is a 31-day devotional that provides encouragement and practical advice to women who are facing the effects of either their own or their spouses’ unemployment.
This is not a Pollyanna devotional. It tackles the specifics of day to day living through tough issues, such as handling anger, finding new ways to generate cash flow, and preparing for an extended job search. |
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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 19:44 |
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Weaving the Journey: Noni and the Great Grands
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D
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Avisson Press Inc.
3007 Taliaferro Rd.
Greensboro, NC 27408
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When 11 year old C.J. asks her grandmother, " Noni, where did I come from?" a memorable quest begins. Weaving the Journey Noni and the Great Grands is a multigenerational saga of family, culture and race that begins with Sariah, a slave in the early 1800's, and concludes with Sariah's descendants in the 21st century.
The reader meets a diverse cast of characters-black, brown, red and white-who move through a compelling landscape of space and time. This is the sympathetic and ultimately healing of the intermingling-the weaving-of a truly American family.
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Hat's Off!
Debra Madaris Efird has a short creative writing essay entitled "Oh,the memories: A seventh-grade field trip, then and now" in the Winter 2009 issue of Wake Living magazine. |
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