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A Thank-You, and a Reminder

Thank you, all you lovers of literature who responded to the Network’s end-of-fiscal-year request for donations this week.  Each of you soon will receive the Official NCWN Donor Thank-You Letter to wave in the tax man’s face (just don’t tell him I said so), but in the meantime, please know how much we appreciate your [...]

Squire Summer Writing Residency Update

The Hilton New Bern/Riverfront, site of this year’s Squire Summer Writing Residency, told me today that the Network has filled its block of reserved guest rooms, and that they have no more vacancies for the weekend of July 14 – 17. All three SR11 workshops are still open for registrants, but those who wish to [...]

Summer Stories

The following is a message from author and editor Liza Wieland, who will lead the fiction workshop at the 2011 Squire Summer Writing Residency, July 14 – 17 in New Bern: “I first had a sense of myself as a writer when I attended a conference much like the Squire Summer Writing Residency, in Atlanta, [...]

Poetry in Summer

The following is a message from poet and editor Peter Makuck, who will lead the poetry workshop at the 2011 Squire Summer Writing Residency, July 14 – 17 in New Bern:   “A few weeks ago, I received an email from an eighth-grade student in Evanston, Illinois.  He said he was writing a paper on [...]