NC Writers' Network

The Network Turns 40 | North Carolina Writers' Network Read the latest in the online journal of the North Carolina Writers' Network.

Forty years ago, a group of writers decided the Writingest State needed a new organization to connect, support, educate, and serve the many writers all across North Carolina.

From 1985 to 2025 the writing world has changed dramatically, but the Network has endured.
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✨️Squire Summer Writing Workshop Spotlight!✨️⁠
Don't miss your chance to learn from award-winning author Maddie Norris in "Writing the Body: Embodied Creative Nonfiction."⁠

Registration for Squire Summer Writing Workshops is currently open until July 11: www.ncwriters.org/squire-summe...

We're back after a mini summer break! Just in time to tell you about Squire Summer Writing Workshops, happening at Davidson College in July. You don't want to miss this long weekend of craft intensive sessions. 4 days. 12 writers per workshop. Learn more: www.ncwriters.org/squire-summe...

Spring Conference spotlight: Don’t miss “Writing the Big Issues in YA” with Lauren Yero! In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to write stories that deal with important social and political themes without being didactic.

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Spring Conference Spotlight: As a writer, your audience and your community are the two anchors that will keep you motivated throughout your entire career. So you don't want to miss "Finding Your Audience and Building Your Writing Community" with Alyson Sinclair! www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

just about ten days left to register for the always-delightful North Carolina Writers' Network conference, support Asheville's rebuilding, and hang out with yours truly while I meet with writers and eat as many giant biscuits as I possibly can!

Let's Get Weird: A Taxonomy of Strangeness Ross White Poetry 2025 Spring Conference May 2-4, Asheville registration now open: ncwriters.org accompanied by a photo of Ross White, a doofy looking dude in glasses

I feel pretty well qualified to talk about strangeness-- on the page or off! But we'll focus on the page in this workshop from @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social at the spring conference. Register today: www.ncwriters.org

A big congrats to Anne Raustol of Weaverville, who won this year’s Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize for her story “Brown Butter!”

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ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT! Spring Conference Spotlight: Don't miss your chance to take a Master Class with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn! Learn more and register: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

Need feedback on your writing? NCWN offers an ongoing Critique Service for its members. Network writers can have their unpublished work reviewed, at below-market rates, by established writers and editors of varying backgrounds and areas of expertise! www.ncwriters.org/services/cri...

Spring Conference Spotlight: Paul Jones! Paul will join authors Patrick Cumby and Michele T. Berger for a can't-miss discussion on writing and A.I. Examine both sides of the coin and one of the most pressing issues of our community.

Registration is now open:
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NCWN to Turn 40, Turn to Venture Capital | North Carolina Writers' Network This summer the North Carolina Writers’ Network will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its official founding.

“Being a nonprofit was the right way to pursue our mission,” NCWN Executive Director Ed Southern said, “but you know what’s a better way to pursue something? In a sports car.”

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By now you’ve probably heard about the theft of millions of books and other written work by Meta in order to “train” the AI they’re developing. If you’re reading this blog post there’s a good chance your work has been stolen, or the work of your friends. www.ncwriters.org/news/blog/th...

Our Executive Director Ed Southern and other network members are in Los Angeles this week for #AWP2025! If you're an NCWN member and attending the AWP conference, feel free to share your photos or tag us! Have fun!

The TBR pile just got a little bigger, thanks to these excellent books now out in the world! Congrats to our NCWN members.

Don't miss "Biography, Observation, and Belief" with Keith Flynn! This workshop will focus on incorporating elements of the writer’s personal life with tangible visual aspects to give their work greater authenticity and credibility.

Register now: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

Do you have an inspirational quote near your desk? Something you can look at and remember why you're there? Let us know in the comments!

Greensboro Teacher Wins 2025 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Contest | North Carolina Writers' Network Anne P. Beatty, a high school English teacher in Greensboro, has won the 2025 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition for her essay “Beach Daze.”

Congrats to Anne P. Beatty, a high school English teacher in Greensboro, who won the 2025 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition for her essay “Beach Daze."

Beatty will receive $1,000, and Ecotone will consider her essay for publication. www.ncwriters.org/news/network...

Spring Conference Spotlight: Don't miss "Landbound: Writing Artfully About Place" with Jeremy B. Jones! In this session, we’ll explore approaches for putting place on the page. Registration is open for our Spring Conference, happening in Asheville. Register now: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

Applause for our Network members who recently celebrated good publishing news!

Are you a NCWN member and have news to share with us? Reach out! We'd love to spotlight you.

Spring Conference Spotlight: It was a matter of when, not if, we would address the elephant in the writers' room: A.I.

Don't miss Saturday's kickoff panel, "Have You People Never Seen The Terminator? Writers & AI" with Patrick Cumby, Michele Berger & Paul Jones.

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Spring conference for @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social May 2-4 in Asheville: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

What was the last book you read that surprised you? A plot twist, a new form, a memoir epiphany...Let us know in the comments!

Spring Conference Spotlight: James Beard Award winner Ronni Lundy will take attendees through a series of food-related prompts to enhance their ability to create mood, define character, describe place, and reveal motivation in their work. Learn more & register: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

"Is Asheville open after the hurricane?" "How do I get the most out of my Master Class?" "Are there books for sale? Will authors sign them for me?"

Your questions will be answered on our Live Q&A on Tuesday, March 11 from 1-2pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Spring Conference Spotlight: we are thrilled that the one and only Kelle Jolly will join us at the Saturday night network banquet! Registration is open now for our spring conference. Don't wait! Learn more and register: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

CLOSING SOON - There's still time to enter the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, which honors a single poem. Open to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. Send in your submissions by March 1st! www.ncwriters.org/programs/com...

In honor of Black History Month, we want to take a moment with multifaceted artist, poet, & civil rights advocate Dr. Maya Angelou. Dr. Angelou moved to North Carolina in 1981, and lived in Winston-Salem for over 30 years. Here's her poem, "Still I Rise."
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Delighted to participate in the Manuscript Mart with @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social this May (my first visit to North Carolina)! Registration is open here: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

Want something to read that IS NOT the news? Our authors can deliver! Check out the most recent publications from NCWN members.