Writing Workshop

Come learn how to cut to the bone at Maureen Crane Wartski's workshop on March 16 at Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City.  Make characters drive the plot, find a hook, give your verbs a six pack build and develop the fine art of nuanced foreshadowing.
 More information at their website: www.carteretwriters.org

Self Publishing

Are you interested in self-publishing your work?

Go to the North Carolina Writers' Network web site at ncwriters..org  Under the White Cross School Blog, see the article from NPR titled "Self-Publishing: No Longer Just A Vanity Project."

Crooks Corner Book Prize

Crooks Corner in Chapel Hill is hosting a book prize for a debut novel set in the South.
 The winning entry will receive a $1,000 prize, and a free glass of wine every time they
visit for the next year.

Submission details are available at www.crookscornerbookprize.com

Entry deadline is June 30, 2013.

Pittsboro WMO

Pittsboro Writers' Morning Out will meet Saturday, January 12, 1:00 PM at
Davenport & Winkleperry, 18A East Salisbury in Pittsboro

Writers' Morning Out

Pittsboro Writers’ Morning Out will meet Saturday,

December 8, 1:00 PM at Davenport & Winkleperry,

18A East Salisbury Street in Pittsboro.

Bring a short Christmas selection to read.

All writers, any genre are invited.

Local author:  Sheri Castle, local author, food writer and cooking instructor will be at Paperbacks Plus! with her new cookbook “The New Southern Garden Cookbook – Enjoying the Best from Homegrown Gardens, Farmer’s Markets, Roadside Stands & CSA Farm Boxes” on Friday, December 7, 11:00 – 1:00 PM.

There will be food samples, and the Siler City Mini Farmers’ Market will be on hand during the book signing.

Paperbacks Plus! is at 208 E. Raleigh St in Siler City. 

Phone 742-4033 or on Facebook.  

See our blog:   www.pittsboro-wmo.blogspot.com for

times and places for readings and book signings in our area.

See the North Carolina Writers’ Network website for

information about contests and submission opportunities:  www.ncwriters.org

Writers’ Morning Out is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network.

Fall Poetry Contest

The winning entry in our Fall Poetry Contest 

on the theme of Halloween.

HALLOWEEN - 1950's style

We paw and rummage through the costume box -

accumulation of cast-off shoes and clothes.

My mother pulls out paper grocery bags

and makes us listen to the Halloween rules.

Our greedy hands atwitch with sugar futures

we know exactly what she has to say,

before a-ringing neighbors' chimes and doorbells

to Mister Stollmeiers's Pharmacy we go,

a UNICEF collection table where

the rows of half-pint boxes with a slot

assigned by name to lines of costumed children

who beg for pennies for a worthy cause.

We shake the box like make-shift castanet.

A dish of pennies alongside candy bowl

on tables next to doors that open wide

to Barnard five who know to stick together.

The bags and boxes heavy with their treasure.

A long walk back to drug store lies ahead.

At eight o'clock, the neighbors' porches dark,

we scuff along in shoes too small or big.

Mary Barnard

Writers' Morning Out, November 10, 2012

Pittsboro Writers’ Morning Out will meet Saturday,

November 10, 1:00 PM at Davenport & Winkleperry,

18A East Salisbury Street in Pittsboro.

Note the time change 1:00 PM

All writers, any genre are invited.

New bookstore in Pittsboro.  Circle City Books and Music

 has opened at 121 Hillsboro Street. While they basically

are an outlet for used books, the owner, Myles Friedman,

says he will also consider new books by local authors.

Give him a visit.

See the North Carolina Writers’ Network website for

information about contests and submission opportunities:  www.ncwriters.org

Writers’ Morning Out is sponsored by the North Carolina

 Writers’ Network.