Join us for NCWN's Online Open Mic...V!
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ONLINE—The North Carolina Writers' Network will host its fifth Online Open Mic on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:00 pm.
The public is welcomed and encouraged to join the event, to show support for our fellow writers and experience some much-needed "face-time."
Anyone with an internet connection can participate, or you can even read and listen over the phone!
To view (or simply listen) to the event on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:00 pm, go to https://zoom.us/j/326961596 (Meeting ID: 326 961 596) or dial-in by phone, 1-646-876-9923 (Meeting ID: 326 961 596).
Readers will be given five-minute time slots, first-come, first-served, up to sixteen readers. All genres welcome; this open mic is free for participants.
Registration is closed.
NCWN launched its online open mic series in 2017. These ninety-minute events have proven surprisingly effective in terms of bringing writers together from all over the state of North Carolina, from Flat Rock to Fayetteville, Asheville to Kill Devil Hills, and beyond.
Online open mics feel both intimate and new-fangled, but even if you feel a little shy about participating through this technology, don't be. Most of the other readers are probably feeling a bit shy—not to mentioned cooped up—too!
The fifth iteration is always a milestone. Perhaps this one more than most.
The non-profit North Carolina Writers’ Network is the state’s oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to all writers at all stages of development. For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.
COVID-19 and Spring Conference
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GREENSBORO—We have decided to cancel the NCWN 2020 Spring Conference.
Two weeks ago, this decision would have been difficult. A month ago, it would have been unthinkable.
Today, it seems the obvious choice to make.
In the coming days, we will issue refunds to all registrants and exhibitors.
If you registered for the Spring Conference but do not want your fees refunded, please tell me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and we will convert—with gratitude—your registration fee into a donation.
If you donated to the NCWN 2020 Spring Conference, we hope you will let us apply your donation to scholarship aid for future NCWN conferences. If you would rather we refund your donation, please tell me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and we will be glad to do so.
We have begun planning an online alternative to Spring Conference: our first-ever Cabin Fever Conference, to be held April 17-18, with many of the same instructors leading many of the same classes. We will finalize this Cabin Fever Conference and open registration for it as soon as possible, and we hope many of you will join us . . . at a safe, non-contagious distance.
We also are holding an Online Open Mic next week, allowing writers to share their infectious work, without sharing any infections. We will open registration for that Online Open Mic later today.
In the meantime, we promise you this: However long the Covid-19 pandemic requires social distancing, however much it may disrupt what we think of as “normal,” the Network will be here—supporting and connecting writers around and beyond the state; nourishing and nurturing the literary arts; providing access to excellence and opportunity, and even to a community . . . that’s not communicable.