Saturday, January 8, 9:00am - 4:00pm, in Chapel Hill This hands-on workshop will include examples, in-class writing exercises, and a discussion about short short fiction contests and markets. By the end of the day you will have completed drafts of at least two short shorts.
Tuesdays, February 8 - March 15, 6:30 - 8:00pm, in Chapel Hill In this six-week class, through discussion and writing exercises, we will identify the components of an effective writing practice.
Saturdays, February 12 - March 19, 10:00am - noon, in Chapel Hill This class will combine the workshop experience with writing exercises, craft discussions and shared inspiration to get started on building the next generation of characters for our fiction.
Saturday, April 2, 8:30am - 3:30pm, in Salisbury The workshop will begin with bird watching in Catawba College's 189-acre ecological preserve. After the field experience, the workshop will include an exploration of various literary models for writing about birds, followed by time for participants to begin writing pieces inspired by the morning's bird watching. After lunch, participants will share the work they have written and respond to each other's writing.
Three separate sessions, each at a different location. Meets 9:00am - 1:00pm at all locations: - Wilmington, Saturday, June 11 - Asheville, Saturday, August 6 - Chapel Hill, Saturday, August 27 This class will explore the use of memory in writing through exercises using prompts meant to probe our memories.
Tuesdays, May 17 - June 21, 6:30 - 8:30pm, in Chapel Hill This is the course for those people who have stopped talking about that novel they want to write and started writing it.
Saturday, July 9, 1:00 - 5:00pm, in Chapel Hill This workshop offers practical advice on selling story ideas to newspapers and magazines and having fun in the process.
Sunday through Thursday, July 10 - 14, in Raleigh This workshop is for the writer in every person--to free the writer, to give the writer encouragement, confidence, and skill.
Saturday, September 10, 10:00am - 5:00pm, in Chapel Hill In this one-day workshop we will explore the use of visual images as a means to create powerful fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry.
Two separate sessions, each in Chapel Hill on Tuesday evenings. Meets 6:00 - 8:00pm on each date: - September 6 to October 25 - November 1 to December 20 Works in Progress is an on-going roundtable workshop for beginning authors of fiction and memoir. Grow as a writer by learning critical reading skills, critiquing skills and the revision process.
Saturday, December 10, 10:00am - 2:00pm, in Raleigh This workshop will offer practical advice on getting newspapers and magazines to say "yes" to your work.
Last night I returned to North Carolina from a much-needed long weekend, and I’m back at my desk this morning.
I will, however, be out of the office again today for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours, as I hope all of you will be today, too - unless you voted early.
No matter who you [...]
Don’t forget that the 2008 Induction Ceremony for the NC Literary Hall of Fame will be this Sunday, October 19, at 2 p.m., at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith are this year’s inductees. [...]
I’ve found, or been sent, so many good links and other tidbits of interest to writers, I hardly know where to start.
Let’s begin with an interview with Ron Rash, the keynote speaker at the 2008 Fall Conference and author of the new novel Serena, from today’s Shelf Awareness:
Book Brahmins: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author [...]
Hat's Off!
...to Susan Barry Blair whose children’s book Adventure on the High Sea! A Family’s Sailing Voyage Across the Atlantic was the featured review in the November issue of MySchoolRocks magazine, which is distributed to all elementary students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg county. She also presented her story at this year’s North Carolina School Library Media Association Convention in Winston-Salem October 5th.
