Hats Off to Caleb Johnson!

Calendar: Member Readings

Date: 08.09.2022 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Author: Deonna Kelli Sayed

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NC Humanities' 2022 Route 1 Reads Conversation: Meagan Lucas & Ron Rash.

Join North Carolina Humanities on August 9 at 6:30 PM to hear authors Meagan Lucas and Ron Rash discuss Meagan's debut novel "Songbirds and Stray Dogs." Meagan and Ron will spend an hour talking about "Songbirds and Stray Dogs", their writing processes, and Appalachian literature. The event is free. Registration in advance is required.

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Hats Off! to Caleb Johnson whose article "Outer Banks Refuge" appears in Garden & Gun (Feb/March, 2022). Caleb will lead the session "Manifesting Thisness in Fiction" at the NCWN 2022 Spring Conference on Saturday, April 23.

Catherine Carter | NCWN-West | Hayesville

08.10.2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Coffee with the Poets and Writers (CWPW) will feature poet Catherine Carter on Wednesday, August 10, at 10:30 A.M. at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, N.C.

The event is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the presentation. Bring a poem or short prose piece of about three minutes to participate. CWPW is sponsored by North Carolina Writers' Network West (NCWN-W), which also includes writers in Towns, Union, Fannin, and Rabun Counties in Georgia.

Coffee With the Poets and Writers will meet every second Wednesday from June until December 2022. Masks are optional. Please do not park in the Book Store parking lot. For more information, contact Joan Howard, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Catherine Carter’s collections of poetry with LSU Press include The Memory of Gills (2006) The Swamp Monster at Home (2012), and Larvae of the Nearest Stars (2019); she has one chapbook with Jacar Press, Marks of the Witch. Her poetry has won the North Carolina Literary Review’s James Applewhite Prize, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Award, Jacar Press’ chapbook contest; it has also appeared in Orion, Poetry, Ecotone, RHINO, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Poetry South, Tar River Poetry, and Ploughshares, among others. Raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, she is now professor of English at Western Carolina University. On a good day, she can roll a whitewater kayak and re-queen a beehive; on less good days, she collects stings, rock-rash, and multiple contusions. Catherine also "enjoys cooking, especially vegetable and beans, because it's probably the original human art and it produces something everyone can enjoy; and I'd probably enjoy some kind of crafting if I weren't a complete clutz with my hands; and I get Wordle most of the time but not always."

Cat Warren | Virtual

08.11.2022 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

People have harnessed the dog’s nose for many centuries. The list of what dogs can help locate is long and getting longer daily. From abalone and accelerants to termites and truffles, dogs aid their human partners in locating endangered species and dangerous or delicious substances.

Scent-detection dogs are also used to locate people who are alive, and those who have died. In this talk, science journalist Cat Warren will explain the history, the complex science and the real satisfaction of working with well-trained dogs who locate the missing and dead.

Recent archaeological research shows that cadaver dogs, or human remains detection dogs, can help locate unmarked graves and burial grounds that are hundreds or even thousands of years old. The work to find burial sites of the enslaved, as well as historic African-American cemeteries, is particularly urgent. Development, the passage of time, and nature itself threaten untold numbers of burial grounds. Activists, historians, and archaeologists are teaming up with cadaver-dog teams to locate—and preserve—lost and abandoned cemeteries.

What is the fascinating science behind using cadaver dogs to help find these important sites? What are the political and practical problems? What is the potential?

This is a Wake County Library program.

Redbud Workshop: Writing the Novel

08.15.2022

This is a craft and workshop hybrid class for students who are interested in learning more about writing novels. Discussions will include short story pacing versus novel pacing; identifying whether an idea is better suited for a novel or a short story; coming up with ideas for novels; the essential elements of a novel; outlining novels; and more. We will read and discuss two short novels in this course, and by the end of the course, all students will have written, workshopped, and polished a first chapter of a novel, and will leave the course with a roadmap for how to complete their book.

Instructor: Emily Cataneo
Level: Beginner and above
Cost: $349 for new students; $319 for returning students

To register, click here.

Glenda Beall and Brenda Kay Ledford | NCWN West

08.18.2022 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The North Carolina Writers’ Network-West’s Literary Hour returns to the John C. Campbell Folk School on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at 7 p.m., after a two-year hiatus during the pandemic. The event will be held in the Open House. The Literary Hour is free and open to the public.

The featured writers for August are Brenda Kay Ledford and Glenda Beall.

Brenda Kay Ledford, a seventh-generational native of Clay County, North Carolina, is an award-winning author, blogger, and retired educator. Her work has appeared in many journals including Asheville Poetry Review, Our State, Appalachian Heritage, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Guidepost Magazine, 49 Old Mountain Press anthologies, and many other publications. She writes about nature and wants to help preserve the culture of this region. She's received the Paul Green Multimedia Award from North Carolina Society of Historians thirteen times for her books. Ledford will read poetry from her latest book, Blanche, Poetry of a Blue Ridge Woman, which was released by Redhawk Publishing in 2021.

Glenda Beall serves as program coordinator for the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West. Her essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in magazines and literary journals as well as online. Her poetry chapbook, Now Might as Well be Then, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She has co-authored a collection of stories, poems, and articles, Paws, Claws, Hooves, Feathers and Fins, Family Pets and God’s Other Creatures. Much of her writing is filled with stories about horses, dogs, and cats that have been a part of her family. Her love of genealogy led her to compile stories of her grandfather and his ten children in Profiles and Pedigrees, The Descendants of Thomas Charles Council (1858 – 1911). Beall’s online class, Writers Circle around the Table and classes for the Institute of Continuing Learning reach people from all over the country. She will read from some of her short stories.

The Literary Hour will be held on the third Thursday of the month through November at John C. Campbell Folk School in the roofed and open pavilion of the Open House. From Clays Corner in Brasstown turn onto Brasstown Road, then turn left on Scoggins Road then left again to pass Davidson Hall. Or coming from Marsh Creek, turn right onto Davidson Road and follow around to Open House. Parking is in front near the vegetable gardens.

Anyone with a love of the written word will be transported by the talent of each month’s featured writers. Contact Patricia Zick at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for further information.

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Women Who Submit | Wilmington

08.20.2022 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Women Who Submit Wilmington: We meet, in-person, the third Saturday of every month at 3:00 to help each other prepare and submit our work to top-tier literary journals, magazines, agents, and publishers. More information on Women Who Submit is available on the WWS website. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if interested. (More information about her published writing is at kathleentyler.com.)

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