Upcoming North Carolina conferences and special presentations for writers and those who want to be writers. Johnston County Writers Conference Saturday, April 6, 2019 @ 8:30am-3pm The Johnston County Writers Group is holding its inaugural […]
Publisher Presentation Diane Wolfe, owner of Dancing Lemur Press LLC, will speak to the Johnston County Writers Group about “The Secret to Editors, Publishers, and Agents” on Thursday, August 9, 2018, 6:30-7:30pm, at the Selma […]
Mystery writer and Southern humorist Cathy Pickens will be the featured speaker at an Archdale, North Carolina lunch event hosted by Murder We Write (MWW), the Triad NC chapter of national writers’ organization Sisters in […]
RJ McCarthy has released Quarry Steps To which is the third crime fiction novel in the Tony Quarry series. The novel is set in the Piedmont area of North Carolina’s tobacco country. In Quarry Steps […]
By Donna Campbell Smith K.F. Whatley has released her first novel, Making Corrections, after twenty years of being a technical writer and journalist. She has also had short fiction and poetry published in literary journals […]
By Donna Campbell Smith The Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers’ Guild is sponsoring its third-annual FCAC Writers’ Guild Carolina Prize in Writing contest. The contest is open writers of any age and location for […]
By Donna Campbell Smith, Franklin County Arts Council The deadline, October 15, 2017, is approaching to register for the Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writer’s Guild 5th-annual Writers’ Retreat. The retreat will be held November 18, […]
By Donna Campbell Smith, Franklin County Arts Council Franklin County Arts Council’s Writer’s Guild looks forward to their Fall Writers Day Retreat on November 18, 2017. The retreat will be held at Rolling View Community building, […]
By Mary “Angie” Harmon, Sisters in Crime Triad Chapter – Murder We Write All readers and writers are invited to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Sisters in Crime (SinC) writing group and the 14th Birthday of its Triad […]
North Carolina-based author RJ McCarthy has just released a new crime novel, Where Seldom is Heard, a fourth for the writer. Departing from his previous novels in his Tony Quarry/ Carolina Mystery series, Where Seldom […]
By Jackie Dove-Miller Did you know that there is a best-selling romance author living right here in Franklin County? Erin Knightley, who spent her formative years in Kentucky, lives with her husband at Lake Royale. […]
By Donna Campbell Smith, Franklin County Arts Council Winners of the 2016 Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers Guild “Carolina Prize for Writing” were announced Thursday night, December 8, 2016, at the guild’s launch party for […]
By Mary Angela Harmon Meetings of the Triad “Murder We Write” writers’ group are offering expert presentations — free and open to all writers in all genres — as a public service. Murder We Write programs are organized […]
By Donna Campbell Smith Raised in New York City and King’s Park, New York, local fiction writer RJ McCarthy has lived in the South more than half his life. He received his Ph.D. from the […]
Donna Campbell Smith, a North Carolina-based author of ten published books, is presenting a Writers Publishing Workshop entitled, “The Road to Getting Published,” organized by the Vance-Granville Community College (VGCC). The workshop begins September 12, 2016, and runs through November […]
Local Writer Launches the Book of Donkeys at Donkey Day By Donna Campbell Smith & Shannon Hoffman Local writer Donna Campbell Smith will be launching her latest book published by Lyons Press, The Book of Donkeys, at […]
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