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Word by Word ... 100 Years!

November 2022: Mid Month

News & Meeting Reminder

Volume 29 Issue 22


Our mission: to support local writers and promote their development through education, recognition, and community.

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!


At the Next Meeting: On Tuesday,

November 15, 2022, 6:15 - 8 pm 

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Join Us

in Charlotte

2225 Tyvola Road,

in the

Tyvola Senior Center

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!"

Landis Wade on

All the Book Marketing I Did Not Know & Other Tips for Launching and Marketing Your Novel



CWC's own Landis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer turned author turned host of the popular Charlotte Readers Podcast (where he has conducted more than 300 author interviews), whose third book—The Christmas Redemption—won the Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards, and whose recent novel, Deadly Declarations, received praise by Kirkus Reviews, BookLife Reviews and Midwest Book Reviews, and was named a Finalist in the Thriller/Adventure category of the 2022 International Book Awards.


Learn more about Landis ONLINE

and at The CWC Events Page


We're Meeting

On-Site & Online from 6:30 to 8 pm

Wanna Zoom?

Our Membership Guru

Has Your Link!

Club Information


The CWC Nonfiction Contest Is Open Until Jan. 3, 2023

  • Open to all CWC members, to any resident of North Carolina or South Carolina, and to anyone who attends school in North 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  • Entries must be original and unpublished.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.



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

The 2nd Monday Virtual Writing Salon & Social Time

The next Zoom gathering will take place from 7:00-8:30 on 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.

"To write means more than putting pretty words on a page; the act of writing is to share a part of your soul with the world." 


Unknown



"Description should begin in the writer's imagination and finish in the reader's.."

--Stephen King


"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in the retrospect."

Anais Nin

CWC North Happenings

Free Presentation in Huntersville!

Your invitation is below, click the flyer for details.

Coming on Tuesday, December 13th:



Our Annual Critique Groups Meeting! Find Your Support Team for that 2023 Project! See the list below and on the CWC Critique Groups page.


"writers should surround themselves with those who are going through the same thing," Therese Anne Fowler.


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 wiling 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 any of these opportunities or want to lead a new group yourself please contact Dave.


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Don't Miss This!


At the December meeting, we will reveal the winning voices of the 2022 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Contest & the top finishers will read their pieces.

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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! Please contact David Collins for information.

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We've Got You Covered!


Debut Poetry Collection

&

New Cover, a Second Edition

                                           

The first book in the Lindsay series features our heroine escaping to New York City, and beginning the next adventure of her life along the way.

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“And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.” –Sandra Cisneros

“And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.” –Larry David

Peregrinations is a collection of poems that explore the diversity of what a 'poem' can be. There are the expected love poems, narratives, some serious, some silly, and others introspective. 


  Rhyme, meter and form are wide ranging and noticeable without necessarily being recognizable. 

  Such a broad scope, as the title word does imply 'journeys', Peregrinations is published without direct attribution to encourage readers to see where they might glimpse their own reflection. 


Peregrinations is available at 'That's Novel Books', Camp North End, Sardis Marketplace (South Charlotte), and Kushi World Bazaar in Fort Mill.

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 next deadline is January 10th, 2023.

What's the Good Word?

Share your publishing news at MEMBER KUDOS


so we can celebrate too.

Support Our Members & Community Partners

visit our Member Resources page

Charlotte Lit:

Click the image below to learn more


Charlotte Readers Podcast

Beyond 300...


Click the graphic to see what Landis Wade,

CWC member, podcast creator and host, and his co-host, CWC member Sarah Archer have in store rest of November. 

Guess who the special guest will be later this month? None other than our fearless CWC leader, Dave Collins. An added bonus...this segment includes member Gary Edgington talking about his new novel, Outside the Wire. The episode drops on November 29th.


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 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.

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”


News You Can Use

Check Out This Opportunity to Submit Your Words!















An Ekphrastic Exhibition at the Charlotte Art League.



The Ekphrastic form is a pairing of the written word and visual art. It is a written-word description, or a vision inspired, by a work of art.

With this exhibit, a committee of jurors will pair selected writers with selected visual artists to examine the state of change that is constant in our world – how we evolve within ourselves, our cultures, our society, even nature itself.


Entry Deadline: December 1, 2022

Opening Reception: March 10, 2023 (6-9pm)

Exhibit Dates: March 10, 2023 - April 7, 2023.


Entry Deadline: Dec. 1, 2022



WRITERS CLICK HERE to ENTER


ARTISTS - CLICK TO ENTER


QUESTIONS?


Email displayatcharlotteartleague@gmail.com

 or christinearvidson@me.com

Waterbean Poetry Night At the Mic!
















In Huntersville

On Wednesday, November 30th, 7-9 pm.


Host and Co-founder Leslie Rupracht welcomes Elizabeth Wilson & Elaine C. Hill as the featured as this month's featured readers.


An open mic follows the featured poets. Bring a poem and a friend. Share Your Words. Be Inspired!


Click the flyer for more on this event!



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).



There's still time to apply.

The Gilbert-Chappell Anthology Witness: From Appalachia to Hatteras is now available.

For more information go to https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org

Take Your Poetry To The Next Level. 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. 

The Deadline is November 15, 2022

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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Carolyn Prusa Discusses Her Novel None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive 

at an in-person event

Wednesday, November 30, 2022,

at 7 pm


Can’t make the event? Want your own personalized copy?

Contact the store 48 hours before the event to request one.

704-525-9239 or orders@parkroadbooks.com

OPEN SUBMISSIONS

for

The Masters Review 


Chapbook Open:

Now-December 31, 2022


Each fall, The Masters Review holds an open call for chapbooks. They want to publish your collections of flash, your mini novellas, your 40 page short stories.They want to publish your braided essays, your eclectic brainchildren, your experiments. However you want to tell your story, they want to read it. (As long as it’s between 25-45 double-spaced pages.)


For additional information contact https://mastersreview.com


  1. What first name is shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman and Kingsolver?
  2. Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv,Ukraine and wrote works like "Typhoon" in English.
  3. He taught us " The Power of Myth,"
  4. This comedian may have decided "Life Will Be the Death of M," but not before she made the best seller list.
  5. By Cormac McCarthy: the Kid, Judge Holden.


**See answers in the lavender section below

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Community and conversation are at the heart of our mission.

**both virtual and in-person events. Click the logo above, to learn more about MSBs and its author events.

Trivia Answers

  1. Barbara
  2. Joseph Conrad
  3. Joseph Campbell
  4. Chelsea Handler
  5. Blood Meridian



Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize 

Postmark deadline: January 2 (annual)

Submissions accepted: November 1 – January 2

The Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize honors Harriet Jacobs and Thomas Jones, two pioneering African-American writers from North Carolina, and seeks to convey the rich and varied existence of Black North Carolinians. The contest is administered by the Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Click the link above for guildeline & to submit.

Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition

Postmark deadline: January 15 (annual)

Submissions accepted: November 15 – January 15

The Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition encourages the creation of lasting nonfiction that is outside the realm of conventional journalism and has relevance to North Carolinians. Subjects may include traditional categories such as reviews, travel articles, profiles or interviews, place/history pieces, or culture criticism.

Click the link above to learn more and to submit.

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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

Don't Forget This!

Because of the Thanksgiving Holiday,

November's

Open Mic Night will take place on Wednesday November 23rd--same time, same place.

Debra will meet you there to celebrate you

& your words! See details below.

Open Mic Night at Mugs Coffee


Where members practice reading their work


Click the image to learn more and visit the CWC Facebook page to see who read at open mic the previous month. Open Mic is most fourth Fridays of the month.



Only Members can register to read, All others are welcome to hear great stories!

7:00-9:00 p.m.

Register here to Read



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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