Writers: There is no fee to submit your works to this annual journal The Franklin County Arts Council Writers’ Guild is accepting submissions for County Lines: A Literary Journal, the annual arts council publication, through […]
Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers’ Guild invites the public to attend the Launch Party for County Lines: A Literary Journal 2022, Vol. 9th. Celebrate with local writers and listen to readings from Carolina Prize […]
The Franklin County Arts Council’s Writers’ Guild is accepting submissions for one-time rights to poetry, short or flash fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, and illustrations or photographs for publication in County Lines: A Literary Journal Vol. […]
Collected and with Introduction by Joy Harjo, 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate; Foreword by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress Edited by Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as US Poet Laureate, LIVING NATIONS, LIVING […]
All residents of Johnston County, North Carolina are invited to submit their best stories or poems to the Johnston County Writers Group’s first-ever Adult Spring Writing Contest. The contest opens March 30, 2021, with submissions […]
The Franklin County Arts Council is sponsoring an online poetry and short prose workshop, “Grief To Healing.” Workshop participants will “use what we gather from our readings and experiences to write poems or short prose to document […]
– Beauty and Truth: A Buffet of Poetry is the latest poetry book published by Jackie Dove-Miller. Dove-Miller has divided the poems into four categories: The Beauty of Nature, The Beauty of Dreams, The Truth […]
By Donna Campbell Smith Members of the Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers Guild, along with contributing writers from surrounding areas, gathered at Vance Granville Community College the evening of Thursday, November 29, 2018, to […]
The Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield, North Carolina invites the public to a special Poetry Reading, during which winners of the library’s 2018 Poetry Contests will receive their awards. The Poetry Reading will […]
Editorial by Nicholas Pediaditakis, MD, DLFAPA And there is poetry. Poetry is putting words in an emotionally mobilized way to better express our secret deep feelings, fantasies, and life that usually we do not dare to […]
On October 13, 2016, The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” To read more about this Nobel Prize winner, visit this page: www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/bio-bibl.html. After the announcement was […]
The Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC), headquartered in Franklinton NC, has several upcoming events. These FCAC events — a workshop, photography show, and poetry slam — include submission dates where a Call For Entries date […]
By Jackie Dove-Miller, FCAC Franklin County Arts Council’s Diversity Team held a poetry workshop the morning of August 27, 2016, titled “Finding the Words-Making Them Work,” designed to covered preparing for spoken word performances and poetry slams. Despite […]
By Donna Campbell Smith, Assistant Coordinator, Franklin County Arts Council Franklin County Arts Council’s Diversity Team will sponsor a poetry workshop titled “Finding the Words-Making Them Work” with facilitator, Dasan Ahanu. The workshop is scheduled for […]
A group in Boston has inscribed poetry on the streets of Boston MA; poetry that is only seen when it rains. Using stencils and water repellent, the poems are placed on a sidewalk or similar […]
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