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October 2022: Mid Month
News & Meeting Reminder
Volume 29 Issue 20
Our mission: to support local writers and promote their development through education, recognition, and community.
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CWC welcomes writers of all genres and in all stages of the craft--from curious to accomplished. Click on our logo for the benefits and join our ranks! | |
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Last Call for Your Flash Fiction!
The deadline is 11:59 pm on Tuesday, October 18th
for the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Contest.
Click the image below for guideline & to enter your best 500 word short fiction.
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At the Next Meeting: Tuesday,
October 18, 2022, 6:15 - 8 pm
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Join Us
in Charlotte
2225 Tyvola Road,
in the
Tyvola Senior Center
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The door opens at 6:15 pm and the meeting begins at 6:30 pm.
Come early for social time to catch up with old friends and make some new ones.
"Gathering of moments happy and sound remembering
We are One under the rainbow Love!"
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A.J. Hartley, (AKA Andrew Hart), bestselling author of 24 novels, will speak on
Adaptation & Working with Sources
(Human and Textual)
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Andrew James Hartley is UNC Charlotte’s Robinson Professor of Shakespeare studies where he specializes in performance issues. He is the author of scholarly books on dramaturgy, political theatre and performance history and has edited collections about Shakespeare on the university stage, Shakespeare in millennial fiction, and (with Peter Holland) Shakespeare and geek culture. He was editor of Shakespeare Bulletin for a decade, and is currently editing Julius Caesar for Arden. | |
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How do you tell stories which have—in some way—been told before, and why would you try?
Drawing in particular on his work with Shakespeare, A.J. Hartley will walk through the pleasures and pitfalls of adapting existing material into new work, considering how such a process might be considered figuratively or literally as a species
of collaboration.
| Hartley has written adaptations of Macbeth and Hamlet with David Hewson (the latter winning Audible’s book of the year for 2014) and UFO mystery/thrillers with Tom DeLonge of Blink 182. The first book of his Steeplejack trilogy won the International Thriller Writers’ YA book of the year for 2017. His most recent book, pictured above, is a playful, time-traveling fantasy adventure called Burning Shakespeare. | | |
We're Meeting
On-Site & Online from 6:30 to 8 pm
Has Your Link!
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The CWC Nonfiction Contest Opens on Tuesday!
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- Open to all CWC members and to any resident of North Carolina or South Carolina.
- Entries must be original and unpublished. This includes blogs, Facebook, websites and any other digital media.
- Includes articles and essays on any subject, and any informational piece that is not a fictional story, novel, play or poem.
- Word Count: Entries must be 750-4,000 words.
- The Deadline to Submit is January 3, 2023.
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Nancy McCabe is judging this year's nonfiction contest
Dr. McCabe is the author of six books, most recently Can This Marriage Be Saved? a memoir, which explores the story of her ill-advised, ill-fated youthful marriage through photographs, an instruction manual, a school curriculum guide, a women’s magazine quiz, and extended metaphors. Her books also include a memoir about travel and children’s literature, From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood; the novel Following Disasters; an essay collection, After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening; and two books about China adoption, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter’s Birthplace in China and Meeting Sophie: A Memoir of Adoption. Her two most recent books are available as Audible Audiobooks. Learn more at the CWC Contests Page
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The 2nd Monday Virtual Writing Salon & Social Time Is Back for the 2022-2023 Program Year
The next Zoom gathering is on 7:00-8:30, Monday evening,
November 14th
Tiffany Grantham's new prompts will challenge you and jazz your muse. Don't Miss This Opportunity to write and share.
If you could not logon to the October write in, Tiffany will share those prompts with you. Contact her HERE
Oh the places you and your muse will go when you take 75 minutes to write with others who have made this monthly virtual meet up a habit.
There is always time to share if you wish, no pressure, no angst, just writing fun! Hope to see you there!
Check out the particulars at Calendar of Events page.
Sign up for your Zoom link Here.
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"You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
--Annie Proulx
"A word after a word after a word is power."
--Margaret Atwood
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"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river."
Virginia Woolf
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Crafting Humorous Essays
About Everyday Life
On Sunday, November 13, 2022, at 3 p.m.
@Waterbean Coffee, 9705 Sam Furr Road, Huntersville, NC 28078 (Suite A
Located in Northcross Shopping Center);
join Tamra Wilson and Lisa Kline as they discuss the fun and revelation of crafting humorous essays about everyday life.
Tamra will discuss her essay collection
Going Plaid in a Solid Gray World, (Red Hawk Publishing, 2021) Lisa will share from her collection The Ruby Mirror (The Bridge, 2022). The book covers are pictured to the right.
The presentation is open to the public. Refreshments will be available through Waterbean. Charlotte Writers Club North is hosting this free event.
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Tamra Wilson co-edited Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations that Changed Their Lives. Her work has appeared in the North Carolina Literary Review, storySouth, Evening Street Press, New Guard and elsewhere. | | |
Lisa Kline's work has appeared in Literary Mama, Skirt, Sasee, moonShine Review, Idol Talk, and the Press 53 Awards Anthology, among others. | | |
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Critique Groups
Available Peer Review Groups
In Dilworth, A Mixed Genre Group: Maria and Thomas Luongo would like to set up a new mixed-genre group. For further information please write to them at: italiamaria@bellsouth.net and tomassoccino@bellsouth.net
Plaza Midwood: Non genre specific. Newcomers to the club are welcome.
Gaston County: (leader is wiiling to travel). Prose/Fiction group
A member working on a Young Adult novel is looking for a partner or a group of like genre.
If you are interested in learning more about either of those opportunities for peer review contact Dave.
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The CWC at the Mint:
with NC Novelist
Therese Anne Fowler
Sunday, October 2nd, writers and readers of all genres, ages, including a finalist in our 2022 Student Writing Contest, turned out for our second 100 Years of Words: book and author talk at the Mint Museum on Randolph.
In his introduction President David Collins noted that the double celebration of the release of Fowler's 7th novel, It All Comes Down To This and our centennial, was one-day shy of the official first meeting, of the CWC,100 years before. A fact the Centennial Committee did not know when the event was in the planning stages.
Fowler and the CWC's Sarah Archer, author of The Plus One had a candid conversation about reading, writing, publishing and life. Fowler said she reads widely, (always has) choosing stories that appeal to her regardless of genre. Her three New York Times and USA Today best selling novels are historical fictionand literary/contemporary fiction. She said "the pressure on readers and on writers to stay in one lane is artificial and detrimental." She challenged the writers in the room, "to get out of your own way when developing characters and noted that "being true to your own vision of success is key."
Therese was featured in Episode 307 of Charlotte Readers Podcast Beyond 3000. Sarah was the interviewer.
To listen Click HERE.
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Answer the Call for Volunteers:
Serve the Club on the 2022-2023 Leadership Team
We are looking for a VP/President-Elect to work with and learn from David Collins & serve on the executive board. This position is open now.
Essential advisory roles still open:
- Contests (co-chairs or work as team)
- Critique Groups Coordinator
- Social media, publicity and marketing team
See the job descriptions in our Policies and Procedures document and think about what you can do to help grow this club--and pitch in! lease contact David Collins for information.
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We've Got You Covered!
Three Debut Works:Two Thrillers
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a Poetry Collection
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A Day In Fall by Charles Harned
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Outside the Wire by Gary Edgerton | |
Was, poetry by Elizabeth Ouzts | |
Got Fresh Ink?
Snap a selfie of your book cover and submit it to the newsletter editor. We will feature a few each month.
The deadline is November 10th.
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What's the Good Word?
Share your publishing news at MEMBER KUDOS
so we can celebrate too.
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Charlotte Lit:
Writing with Bearden: an Ekphrastic Workshop with Charlotte Lit
October 16 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
All ages, Free
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Charlotte Readers Podcast
Beyond 300...
Click the graphic to see what Landis Wade,
CWC member, podcast creator and host, and his co-hosts, Hannah Turner and CWC member Sarah Archer have in store rest of October.
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Personal Story Publishing Project
Call for Submissions!
Lost and Found, the eighth anthology of personal stories will be published in the spring of 2023. Randell Jones is the publisher.
Send in your personal stories of 750 to 800 words
Deadline for submission is Thursday, December 15, 2022.
Learn More & Enter Here.
Coming Soon,Twists and Turns the 7th Anthology of personal stories.
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Thank you for being a partner!
Charlotte Writers Club is supported, in part, by the Infusion Fund and its generous donors*.
*To see the complete list of donors, go to the Foundations for the Carolinas website.
Scroll down below “Contributors to the fund include”
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In Huntersville!
Waterbean Poetry Night
At the Mic
Featured Poets Janis Harrington
&
Brittney Blaskowitz Prichard
Bring a friend and a poem to share during the open mic that follows the featured readers.
Click the flyer to learn more at the Waterbean Facebook Page.
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Take your poetry to the next level!
Free Mentorships Available to College, High School and Middle School Students, and Adults
Apply for the opportunity to be mentored by a distinguished North Carolina poet.
Students in college, high school and middle school, and adults not in school, may apply for the Gilbert-Chappell Mentor Series, a free program sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society (NCPS).
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Click the NCPS logo to learn more. To apply, please submit the application form and three pages of poetry. There is no cost to apply.
Deadline is November 15, 2022
Selected students will work one-on-one with the distinguished poet to revise their poems, and learn about the tools available to poets to improve their craft.
Next spring, students and mentors will participate in readings and have their work included in an anthology published by the NCPS.
The 2022 Distinguished Poet for central North Carolina is Grace C. Ocasio. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her second full-length volume of poetry, Family Reunion (Broadstone Books), received honorable mention in the Quercus Review Press Fall 2017 contest. She was a finalist in the 2016 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in Poetry and received the 2014 North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant. She is a member of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective.
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Trivia Answers
- Agatha Christie
- Shook the World
- Aboriginal
- Terabitha
- Beowulf
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NCWN Fall Conference is in Wrightsville Beach
November 18-20.Workshops,Panels, Masterclasses
& More
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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go."
Dr. Seuss
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Open Mic Night at Mugs Coffee
Where members practice reading their work
Click the image to learn more and see who read at open mic the previous month. Open Mic is Every fourth Friday of the month.
The next one is on October 28th.
(Only Members can register to read) all others are welcome to hear great stories!
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Register here to Read
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MEMBERSHIP
Membership in the Charlotte Writers Club entitles you to participate in workshops, critique groups, contests, and guest speaker programs. The cost is a modest $35 per year for individuals and $20 for students.
We welcome all 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.
To Join or Renew click this Membership Link and follow the instructions.
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