Happy New Year! January 2023 We're #OnTheWrite Track in Johnston County NC!

Meet Our January Speaker Folklorist Oakley Dean Baldwin (and Doris Baldwin!) Author, TV Host and Folklorist Oakley Dean Baldwin has 26 books out on Amazon, B&N and Walmart. His books are popular thrillers, true crime and family mysteries. He's also a TV Host from Beyond Oak Island on The History Channel and has a dozen local history episodes on East Wake TV channel 22 and more to come. Triangle East Writers Meeting Thursday, January 12 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield (PLJCS) 305 E Market St downtown Smithfield near the Ava Gardner Museum Park in the lot at the back Open to the Public - Bring a Friend! Save the Date - Upcoming 2023 Meeting Speakers February 9 - NC Poet Laureate (2105-2018) Shelby Stephenson March 9 - Author G. Don Craig April 13 - Program Manager & Public Affairs Officer, USDA Office of the Chief Stuart Ashby Lee

Telling Our Stories meets Thursdays, January 5, 12, 19, 26 from 1 to 3 pm at the Harrison Center for Active Aging 611 W Noble Street in Selma Bring your work in progress to share for critique! Join us for writing prompts!

Click the links to hear the latest Carolina Writers Speak podcast interviews with creatives! Lori Closter, Author Diane Wolfe, Author, Publisher, Owner Bernie Harberts, Muleskinner, Author, Producer, Adventurer

Click the links to hear podcast interviews with writers beyond Carolina! Deanie Humphreys Dunne, Author of My Life at Sweetbriar Robert Eversole, The Trail Meister, Author, Muleskinner, Horseman

Open Mics Expand to TWO locations in January 2023!

New! Benson Open Mic January 19 6 to 8 pm Sisters II Ice Cream 109 S Market St, Benson and Starting Our Third Year! Selma Open Mic January 27 6 to 8 pm Old Fashioned Ice Cream 124 N Raiford St, Selma

Registration opens soon for our regional 2023 #OnTheWriteTrack Workshop Series Write - Edit - Market - Publish! at the Selma Civic Center 300 N Webb Street, downtown Selma, North Carolina! Learn to write, edit, market, and publish your book in one journey!   #1 – Write – Saturday, February 25 - "Book Writing & Marketing 101 for Beginners,” with Oakley Dean Baldwin and Doris Baldwin, 10 am -12 noon and 2 pm - 4 pm   #2 – Edit – Saturday, March 11 - “Can Your Reader Follow Your Story Line?” with Julia Dorman Fisher, Phd., 10 am -12 noon and "Developmental Editing and Line Editing," with inspirational romance novelist Hope Toler Dougherty, 2 pm - 4 pm   #3 – Market – Saturday, March 18 - “Marketing Your Book,” with Instructors TBD, 10 am -12 noon and 2 pm - 4 pm   #4 – Youth Writers 8-18 – Saturday, May 6 - “The Joy of Writing and Characters” with L. Diane Wolfe of Dancing Lemur Press, 10 am – 12 noon and Meet the Publisher Jen Lowry, Young Adult and Children’s Writers K-12, 2 pm – 4 pm   #5 – Publish – Saturday, May 13 - "Traditional and Self-Publishing: Pros, Cons, and Process” ” with L. Diane Wolfe of Dancing Lemur Press, 10 am – 12 noon and “The Self-Publishing Process,” with Donna Campbell Smith, 2 pm - 4 pm   #6 – Poetry & Screenwriting – Saturday June 10 - “Poetry” with Leslie Waugh of Write from Your Heart, 10 am - 12 noon and “Screenplay Idea to Finished!” with screenwriter Suzin Daly, 2 pm - 4 pm Workshop fees: Triangle East Writers $25/day Non-members $35/day Youth Writers 8-18 - free! Meet the Publisher - $15 Grand prize drawing for one series attendee: A One Year Membership in the North Carolina Writers Network! Sponsored by: Town of Selma Parks and Recreation Johnston County Arts Council Triangle East Writers Registration opens soon! For more information go to www.triangleeastwriters.com  or email triangleeastwriters@gmail.com

#OnTheWriteTrack Workshop Series Presenters

Oakley Dean Baldwin

L. Diane Wolfe

Julia Dorman Fisher, PhD

Hope Toler Dougherty

Donna Campbell Smith

Jen Lowry

Suzin Daly

Leslie Waugh

Triangle East Writers  Join us! Dues are $25 a year! Applications at: triangleeastwriters@gmail.com. December Treasurer's Report: $390.00.  President: Rose Cushing, Middlesex VP: Evelyn Wool, Pine Level Secretary: Cindy Brookshire, Pine Level Treasurer: Dot La Motta, Garner Founder: Gary Ridout, Smithfield Members Carlie Barbour, Four Oaks G Don Craig Jr., Clayton Barbara Crowley, Benson Christy Anne DeSantis, Clayton Hope Toler Dougherty, Smithfield Alison Hendrix, Kenly Julie Johnson, Pine Level Maggie Kuthy Karen Lauritzen, Clayton Stuart Ashby Lee, Smithfield Katie Menard, Clayton Evelyn Lee Parham, Smithfield Nancy Pitkin, Clayton Dr. Wanda Robinson Lee, Selma Barbara Walters Leslie Waugh, Clayton Sherwood Owl Williford, Goldsboro

December Literary News

Here's Barbara Crowley at the Christmas Party at Lake Royale in Middlesex -- thank you Rose and Rodney Cushing for directing her to find the clubhouse! Also, we apologize to those who were locked out of our Dec. meeting due to the Smithfield Christmas Parade. We will do better in 2023!

The launch party at the Franklin County Arts Council in Louisburg for the 2023 County Lines: A Literary Journal 2023 featured an open mic reading that included poet Jackie Dove-Miller. This issue also features Triangle East Writers Evelyn Wool, Cindy Brookshire and Teresa Blackmon.

Have you heard? The Arts Council of Wayne County has moved to the first floor of The View at Wayne National, a luxury high rise apartment building, also historic, at 139 W Walnut St in downtown Goldsboro! Several of our members and presenters are Goldsboro residents.

Read Local: Here are the most recent books by our active members!

The North Carolina Writers Network awards writers more than $4,000 annually in prizes through the competitions that NCWN sponsors. Click each heading below to learn more: Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition  Submissions Accepted November 15 – January 15  Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize  Submissions Accepted December 1 – January 30  Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition  Submissions Accepted January 15 – March 1

Click on and visit these local writer-friendly locations in Johnston County!

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