Win a Free Copy of For One Who Knows How to Own Land
FutureCycle
Press is running two promotions (one through Goodreads and one through Kindle)
that make it possible for you to win not only a copy of Scott Owens' latest book of poems
but also copies of every book they published in 2012 as well as former winners
and finalists. Here are the details from FutureCycle.
FutureCycle
Press Goodreads Giveaways
Enter to win a paperback copy of each of
the 2012 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize contenders (November 1 to December 29)
and former winners and finalists (ending November 1) on Goodreads
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with the poets, discuss their books, and get news about calls for submission and
other press activities.
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Days
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editions we are giving away, now and in the future, as well as new editions as
they come out.
"Odd Saturdays": 2012 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize
Contenders
On the first and third Saturdays of November and December, the
ten books contending for this year's book prize and honorarium are featured. Our
judges will announce the winner sometime in early 2013.
Which do you
think should win the prize? Now there's no reason not to read them all: Richard
Carr, Dead Wendy; Joan Colby, Dead Horses; Robert Collins, Naming the Dead; J.
P. Dancing Bear, The Abandoned Eye; Caroline Hagood, Lunatic Speaks; Pat
Hanahoe-Dosch, Fleeing Back; Paul Hostovsky, Hurt Into Beauty; Scott Owens, For
One Who Knows How to Own Land; Amy Riddell, Bullets in the Jewelry Box; Don
Schofield, Before Kodachrome.
December 29: All Our Books, Chapbooks, and
Anthologies!
Thirty-three of them. That's right. Take a look at the
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Writers Circle classes 2013
CreateSpace self-publishing class, October 27 cancelled due to illness of instructor
Writers Circle hopes to hold this class at a later date, possibly next year.
Writers Circle schedules no classes from November - April. If you are a writer or teacher of writing, and want to teach a class in 2013, contact us by email: nightwriter0302@yahoo.com.
Check out the Schedule page on this blog to see classes as they are listed on the 2013 Calendar.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Saturday afternoon
October 27, 1:00 - 4:00
Ronda Birtha –
Self-publishing Using Amazon's CreateSpace
We will discuss how and why it may be useful, how it has benefited authors, and how cost-effective it may be, as it has a "built-in" advertising infrastructure. Discussion on E-books.
$25.00 registration fee
Now taking registrations for this class. Mail your check to Writers Circle, 581 Chatuge Lane, Hayesville, NC 28904
Ronda knows her stuff and is passionate about helping others learn. She's practical, fun and nice too. … Karen Holmes
I gained valuable social networking information through a class taught at Writer's Circle by Ronda Birtha, a teacher in best sense -- easy to learn from, informed and patient. Maren O. Mitchell
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Full Class for Will Wright's Poetry workshop
Writers Circle hosted Will Wright, poet, editor, and more, from the Atlanta area. We had a full class of poets, some who had never published their work and some with awards and a long history of publications.
The students participated, asked questions and presented wonderful discussion on the sheaf of poems Will gave us to read and talk about.
The young, but experienced poet, had several of his collections with him and also the latest anthology he has published.
I chose his first collection, Dark Orchard, winner of 2005 Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Contest and Night Field Anecdote, published by Louisiana Literature Press. Both books are acclaimed by outstanding poets and Will is compared with Theadore Roethke and Robert Penn Warren.Wright co-edits an anthology series The Southern Poetry Anthology.
We will certainly ask Will Wright to come back to Writers Circle next year.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Bring Anything but Poetry to This Class
Four Week Writing Workshop with Glenda Beall
If you write fiction, non-fiction, true stories or anything that is not poetry, this workshop will help your writing.
The class meets two hours each Wednesday afternoon, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. beginning October 17 - November 7.
Bring your short stories, your memoirs, your flash fiction, and we will work on them together. Polish and submit your short pieces.
E-mail: Glenda, nightwriter0302@yahoo.com
Call: 828-389-4441
$25.00 for 8 hours of instruction
"Hurry and register. I'm waiting for you."
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| nightwriter0302@yahoo.com |
If you write fiction, non-fiction, true stories or anything that is not poetry, this workshop will help your writing.
The class meets two hours each Wednesday afternoon, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. beginning October 17 - November 7.
Bring your short stories, your memoirs, your flash fiction, and we will work on them together. Polish and submit your short pieces.
E-mail: Glenda, nightwriter0302@yahoo.com
Call: 828-389-4441
$25.00 for 8 hours of instruction
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| Glenda at Writers Circle in Hayesville |
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Self-Publishing Class with Ronda Birtha
What:Self-publishing Using Amazon's CreateSpace
When: Saturday afternoon
October 27, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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| WRITERS CIRCLE STUDENTS |
Call 828-389-4441 or email nightwriter0302@yahoo.com
Ronda Birtha – Instructor
Self-publishing Using Amazon's CreateSpace
We will discuss how and why it may be useful, how it has benefited authors, and how cost-effective it may be, as it has a "built-in" advertising infrastructure. Discussion on E-books.
$25.00 registration fee
Class space is limited.
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| STUDENTS AT WRITERS CIRCLE |
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
ANOTHER POETRY BOOK
David Manning doesn't live in the Netwest region. He lives in Cary, N.C. where the NCWN Fall Conference will be held in November. He is one of the most prolific poets around. He has been winning awards in poetry since 1996.
His new poetry chapbook, Genes, can be ordered now for shipping by
Finishing Line Press around January 4, 2013. The number of copies ordered before
November 9, 2012 will determine the size of the press run, so please reserve
your copy now.
"Throughout Genes David Manning traces his family through a
generation. People and places vanish but memory leaves a long trail...Here,
language is so well-crafted it lifts each family member's story off the
page..."---Gail Peck, author of Counting the Lost
David Treadway Manning, a California native, lives in Cary, North Carolina and was winner of the North Carolina Poetry Society's Poet Laureate Award in 1996, 1998 and 2006. Twice a Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared in New Orleans Review, Southern Poetry Review, RATTLE, 32 Poems Magazine, Slipstream, Tar River Poetry and other journals.
His seven chapbooks include Out After Dark (2003), Detained by the Authorities (2007), and Light Sweet Crude (2009), all from Pudding House; The Ice-Carver, winner of the Longleaf Chapbook Competition in 2004, and, most recently, Continents of Light (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His full-length collection, The Flower Sermon, was a finalist in Main Street Rag's poetry book competition in 2007. Yodeling Fungus, an excursion in comedy, was released in 2010 from Old Mountain Press in North Carolina.
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His seven chapbooks include Out After Dark (2003), Detained by the Authorities (2007), and Light Sweet Crude (2009), all from Pudding House; The Ice-Carver, winner of the Longleaf Chapbook Competition in 2004, and, most recently, Continents of Light (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His full-length collection, The Flower Sermon, was a finalist in Main Street Rag's poetry book competition in 2007. Yodeling Fungus, an excursion in comedy, was released in 2010 from Old Mountain Press in North Carolina.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Will Wright will teach poetry at Writers Circle
Call for registration now 404-316-8466 or 828-389-4441
Registration fee: $30
Will describes his workshop:
In the overwhelming world of poetry publishing—the innumerable journals and editors, as well as the innumerable poets attempting to publish—it’s often discouraging, even disenchanting, to attempt to figure out how to find one’s way into publication. As an editor myself, a lot of poetry hits my desk from all over the world, and much of it, unfortunately, is little more than lineated prose; that is, there is not much, if any, attention to craft.
There are certain things poets can learn about the craft so that their work is noticed.
I will dedicate half of the WritersCircle meeting to how good poetry works in distinction to lineated prose or “flat” poetry.
The poem needs to be coherent, and it must cater—in some form—to both the heart and the intellect.
I hope to embolden and encourage poets during this class and to help them identify ways to improve their work and more carefully attune their voice so that they stand out from the crowd. I welcome writers of all levels to join the class and what I hope will be a convivial, helpful conversation.
William Wright, Series Editor and Volume Editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, is author of five collections of poems: the full-length Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011), Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, Winner of the Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize, 2005), and the chapbooks The Ghost Narratives (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and Sleep Paralysis (Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, 2011, forthcoming from Stepping Stones Press). Wright recently won the Porter Fleming Prize in Poetry.
Registration fee: $30
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| Will Wright, poet, editor |
What makes “good poetry” good?
WritersCircle Saturday, October 13, 10 – 1 pm. Contact kpaulholmes@gmail.com for information or visit Writers CircleWill describes his workshop:
In the overwhelming world of poetry publishing—the innumerable journals and editors, as well as the innumerable poets attempting to publish—it’s often discouraging, even disenchanting, to attempt to figure out how to find one’s way into publication. As an editor myself, a lot of poetry hits my desk from all over the world, and much of it, unfortunately, is little more than lineated prose; that is, there is not much, if any, attention to craft.
There are certain things poets can learn about the craft so that their work is noticed.
I will dedicate half of the WritersCircle meeting to how good poetry works in distinction to lineated prose or “flat” poetry.
The poem needs to be coherent, and it must cater—in some form—to both the heart and the intellect.
I hope to embolden and encourage poets during this class and to help them identify ways to improve their work and more carefully attune their voice so that they stand out from the crowd. I welcome writers of all levels to join the class and what I hope will be a convivial, helpful conversation.
William Wright, Series Editor and Volume Editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, is author of five collections of poems: the full-length Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011), Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, Winner of the Texas Review Breakthrough Poetry Prize, 2005), and the chapbooks The Ghost Narratives (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and Sleep Paralysis (Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, 2011, forthcoming from Stepping Stones Press). Wright recently won the Porter Fleming Prize in Poetry.
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