Writers’ Morning Out Poetry Contest Rules

Writers’ Morning Out Poetry Contest Rules

Open to NCWN members or WMO members living in Chatham/Lee County.

Submission guidelines: 

• Any genre, any style. Check current WMO Meeting Announcement for theme, if any.
• Length not to exceed 40 lines, single-spaced, in 12 point type.
• Submit as an attachment (.doc   .docx   .rtf )
• Include name and contact information in the message.  
• Name must not appear on the poem.

Blind judging: 

• Your name must not appear on page. 
• Include name, title, word count and email address in body of email. 
• Check current WMO Meeting Announcement

Submit to: Chatham-Lee County Regional Rep: Carol Phillips

By submitting an entry, you are assumed to be granting us one-time reprint rights. Poem will be considered published by many editors.  If you do not wish a winning entry to be so posted, just let us know.

Judy Hogan's new book

Chatham County author Judy Hogan's book Killer Frost is due out today, September 1.
 Judy will be reading at::

Friday, Oct 5, 2:00 PM.  Goldsboro Library.
Tuesday, Oct 8, 7:00 PM. Durham County Library South.
Sunday, Oct. 14, 2:00 PM.  McIntyre's Bookstore.
Saturday, Oct. 27, 9 AM-1 PM.  Chatham Mills Farmers Market.
Thursday, Nov 8, evening. Regulator Bookshop.
Thursday, Nov 15, evening.  New Chatham Library.

Writers' Morning Out

Pittsboro Writers’ Morning Out will meet Saturday,

August 11, 11:00 AM at Davenport & Winkleperry, 18A East Salisbury Street in Pittsboro.

All writers, any genre are invited.

At this meeting we want to explore the different venues for self-publishing that are available to local writers.

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.

2012 Ultra Flash Fiction Contest Winner

What You Know

by Joe Mills

You can smell the smoke when he comes home, but you don’t ask.  He’ll just shrug and say, “You know the bar.”  If you don’t ask, he won’t lie.  Don’t ask.  Don’t tell.  It has worked for the two of you for years.  It’s what keeps you with him now.  You choose not to know what he does or where he goes or what he thinks when he sits and stares.  Whole parts of his life are blacked out like blank spots on a map.  You can live with this.  You have lived with this.  You don’t need to know. 

But you do know.  You can smell his breath.  You can smell the smoke on his shirt and coat.  It might just be from the air in the bar, or he might have just had one or two.  Or a whole pack.  And that’s that.  If you want, you can chart out how you feel and what you might say to what he might say.  It can all be done in the mind.  You don’t have to ask to know. 

But there’s a smell that’s not smoke.  A new one.  A strong sweet one.  One you don’t know.  One that’s not from the bar.  One that makes you more scared than the smoke.  Don’t ask, and he won’t tell.   Ask, and he still might not tell.  Or he might.  Do you want to know?  Do you need to know? 

But you do know.   You have known the truth for years.   You can smell it.

An Awesome Collaboration

Take some teen-age authors, mix them with an instructor, guide and confident, put them in a library that  thinks teens  have promise  and you get Aspiring Authors’ Workshop.  This program of the Chatham Community Library, started in January 2011, offers young people, ages 12-18, the opportunity to learn and practice the art of writing.  

Under the tutelage of Christie Kinsey, Children’s and Youth Services Librarian, the group has published their first of what hopefully will be annual anthologies.  This first one, titled “AAWesome, A collaboration of young authors “is available on Amazon, with all proceeds reverting to the program.

Writers' Morning Out

Pittsboro Writers’ Morning Out will meet Saturday,

July 14, 11:00 AM at Davenport & Winkleperry,

18A East Salisbury Street in Pittsboro.

Bring a short poem to read.

All writers, any genre are invited.

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.

Poetry at Joyful Jewel

Dear Joyful Writers,

Just wanted to give you a heads up that we are planning a 2-day Joyful Jewel 2nd Anniversary Celebration September 15 & 16.  We've invited musicians to pick times during the weekend to play a few songs, and I'm wondering if some of you would like to read your poetry in between musical acts.  If this appeals to you, just let me know and about what time you'd like to come.  We would so love to have you come celebrate with us -- whether you read or not!

Peace, Mariah

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The Joyful Jewel, a Community of Artists & Patrons
          “local art fresh from the heart ”
     44-A Hillsboro St. in downtown Pittsboro
        P O Box 1483, Pittsboro, NC 27312
  (919) 883-2775,  http://www.joyfuljewel.com