Thursdays, September 9 - October 14, 6:30 - 8:00pm, in Chapel Hill Class participants will be asked to write about the places that they most long to return to and those that they were happy to escape.
Thursdays, September 9 - October 14, 6:30 - 8:30pm, in Raleigh Offers a creative, nurturing atmosphere for you to explore and experience a variety of writing techniques designed to enhance creativity, authenticity, and self expression.
Saturday, September 18, 9:00am - 5:00pm, in Wilmington In this intensive hands-on workshop, you�ll begin the day with your chapbook manuscript and leave with a finished, bound book and a CD of your layout.
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!
Hat's Off to...JOHN GROOMS of Charlotte, NCWN member and critiquer, who recently won a first place award from the North Carolina Press Association. Grooms, who writes a weekly column for Charlotte alternative weekly Creative Loafing, won first place among weeklies with circulation greater than 10,000 in the category of "lighter columns." His win was based on these sarcasm-laden selections: "Mommy, can I stone the queer now?" "Overkill? What overkill?" and "Do it yourself campaign ads." To see the columns, click here, or here, or here!
