June: Leslie Selbst
Hi, fellow inkblots, I came to writing quite by accidentally. I was a high school science teacher and although I could easily recite genus and species, dissecting sentences were a bit of a challenge. Becoming a writer wasn’t even on my bucket list. But a diagnosis of an aggressive malignancy, during […]
Social Media Primer
Writers’ Morning Out May, 15 2021 Panel Discussion on Social Media Summary by Jody Savage Moderator Carol Phillips convened this panel discussion on the subject of What are social media and “platform” and how are they to build an audience? The panelists were: Charles Fiori – communications director for the North Carolina Writers […]
NCWN Spring Conference Session Recordings
Did you miss the Spring Conference? Have you heard about the sessions were and wish you had? Recordings of five sessions are now available! “Authors as Entrepreneurs”, Instructors: Terry Kennedy, Ross White “Dramatic Tension and the Core of Hope vs. Fear”, Instructor: Zelda Lockhart “How to Read Your Work to Others”, Instructor: Joseph Mills […]
Congratulations, Pat!
The Companions: The Story of the First Dog by Pat Shipman has been accepted for publication by Harvard Press.
Congratulations, Jody!
The Erotic Pandemic Ball by Jody Savage has published under her pen name Stella Fosse.
Congratulations, Dolly!
Mine By Design by Dolly Dozier Sickles has published under her pen name Becky Moore.”
Upcoming Submission Opportunities
Do you have a story, poem, or play ready to go? See if one of these calls will work for your piece: 05/31/21. Deadline. One Story. Seeks literary fiction 3-8K words. 05/31/21. Deadline. Southern Poetry Review’s 2021 Guy Owen Prize 06/30/21. Deadline. A+ Playwriting Contest for Teachers.
2020 Multi-Syllables Winner: “Empty Rooms” by William Polf
He drove straight through, despite his full bladder and his aching left knee. He wanted to get to the summer house before sunset, and he still had twenty miles to go. He had considered stopping at the general store, but that would mean another round of condolences from whoever happened to be there, and he […]
2020 One Syllable Winner: “Just Once” by Jane Shlensky
Since the stroke, his words won’t come—hide and seek, smudge and slur, thoughts and tongue as thick as mud yet clear to him. “Speak?” He is urged by his nurse, his wife, his son, as if he will bark and wag for a treat, sit, heel, stay. “Drink? Eat? Sleep? Pee? Pooh?” they […]
May: Bonnie Olsen
WMO: Why do you write? I started writing to create the book I wanted to read. Simple as that. WMO: What have you already written/published? I’ve written way more than I’ve published, but I do have one short story in an anthology called Carolina Crimes: 21 Tales of Need, […]