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April is National Poetry Month
And we have the Poet Laureate of North Carolina!
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GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 7 p.m.
Providence United Methodist Church
2810 Providence Road, Charlotte, N.C., 28211
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April Program: Shelby Stephenson
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Guest speaker for April will be noted poet and musician Shelby Stephenson.
Mr. Stephenson grew up on a small farm
near Benson, in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. "Most of my poems come out of that background," he says, "where memory and imagination play on one another. I have written many poems about the mules we worked until I was in the seventh grade and, after that-the tractor. My early teachers were the thirty-five foxhounds my father hunted. The trees and streams, fields, the world of my childhood-all that folklore-those are my subjects."
Check out the website below for more information about our guest.
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Featured speaker for April, Abigail DeWitt
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Abigail DeWitt is the author of two novels, Lili (W.W.Norton) and Dogs (Lorimer Press) as well as short stories which have been published in several literary journals, including The Carolina Quarterly, Salamander, and The Journal.
The recipient of a Michener Fellowship and a Tyrone Guthrie Residency Fellowship, as well as grants from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Asheville Arts Alliance, Abigail DeWitt received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She has taught Creative Writing at Harvard Summer School, The Duke Writers Workshop, Appalachian State University, and UNC-Asheville and has been the Visiting Writer-in-Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University.
Currently, she teaches Creative Writing and French at Appalachian State University, leads private workshops, and works one-on-one with students around the country. She lives with her husband and daughter in western North Carolina.
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Great money-saving news!
Inflation being what it is, the CWC Board decided to raise the membership dues by a modest $5.00 per year. The good news? They decided this ten years ago, but kept forgetting to actually do it. Well, those days are gone, and the new rates are:
Single membership: increase from $30 to $35
Couples: $40 to $50
Students: $20 (no increase)
But here's more good news! If you renew before June 1, the old rate still applies.
We welcome writers in all genres and forms to join our Charlotte-area literary community. Your membership in the Charlotte Writers' Club helps support writers, readers, and literacy at a critical time in our nation's and our city's history. Join here.
To Join or Renew click
here and follow the instructions.
Charlotte Writers' Club
P.O. Box 220954
Charlotte, NC 28222
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Providence United Methodist Church
2810 Providence Rd.
Click
here for a map of the location.
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April 30, 2016 -
Gary Powell, Flash Fiction Workshop and Reading.
The cost of this workshop
is $25 for members and $35 for non-members.
Location:
The Warehouse Performing Arts Center - 9216 Westmoreland Road - Cornelius, NC
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Click
HERE for more information.
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Opens: March 15.
Closes: May 17.
Announce Winners: September 20, 2016.
A short story between 1500-4000 words.
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Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Prize
Opens: August 16, 2016
Closes: October 18, 2016
Announce Winners: December 20, 2016
Short fiction of up to 500 words.
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CWC Nonfiction Contest (article/essay)
Opens: October 18, 2016
Closes: December 20, 2016
Announce Winners: February 21, 2017
Nonfiction from 750-2000 words.
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"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
- Gene Fowler
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Gary Powell Flash Fiction Workshop
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Gary V. Powell's stories and flash fiction have been widely-published in both print and online literary magazines including most recently at The Thomas Wolfe Review, Fiction Southeast, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Best New Writing 2015. In addition to being the winner of the 2014 Gover Prize for short-short fiction, several of his stories have placed in other national contests including The Press 53 Prize (2012), Glimmer Train (2013) and The Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize (2014).
His first novel, Lucky Bastard, was recently published by Main Street Rag Press.
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Membership
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We welcome writers in all genres and forms to join our Charlotte-area literary community. Your membership in the Charlotte Writers' Club helps support writers, readers, and literacy at a critical time in our nation's and our city's history. Join
here.
Thank you for your support!
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