Upcoming Panel with Jason Mott and Chris Ledbetter.

On October 21, I'll be on a panel about writing diverse characters with Jason Mott and Chris Ledbetter for the NC Writers' Network. We will be waiting for you at 11:30am in the Masonboro Room at the downtown branch of the New Hanover County Library.

Contributor copies, and a launch date.

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27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry came in the post the other day, along with news of our slam-style, 1 paragraph-each reading and launch at Pomegranate Books in Wilmington, NC on October 24th at 2pm. With thanks to Eno Publishers and Elizabeth Woodman for including me.

 

 

Here's the star-studded list of local writers in this anthology:

  • John Jeremiah Sullivan

  • Wendy Brenner

  • Dana Sachs

  • Jason Frye

  • Karen E. Bender

  • Daniel Norris

  • Jean Jones

  • James Leutze

  • Emily A. Colin

  • Emily Louise Smith

  • Michael White

  • Bertha Boykin Todd

  • Robert Anthony Siegel

  • Virginia Holman

  • Ashley Wahl

  • Kevin Maurer

  • Jason Mott

  • Rhonda Bellamy

  • Wiley Cash

  • Melodie Homer

  • Gwenyfar

  • Susan T. Block

  • Philip Gerard

  • Marlon Moore

  • Nan Graham

  • Sheila Webster Boneham

  • Celia Rivenbark

  • Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams

 

New Poetry at storySouth, and remembering Steinbeck's Letters.

A friend asked me to give him something I'd written down. I said, Do I have to write something new, or can it be some words from a while back? My friend just shrugged and was very easy and patient about it. When I hunted through all my scraps of paper, though, nothing seemed right. And then I wrote down a new thing, which had in it ballet and Mary, the circus elephant who was tragically hung in Tennessee, and the baffling psychology of infidelity.

You can read my new thing, "Choreography for Brief Flight," over here but do wander around. There are stunners in this issue of storySouth.

I was riffing a little earlier off of one of Steinbeck's Letters to Pascal "Pat" Covici, the one included in East of Eden (although The Journal of a Novel is the collection of those letters). Sometimes I think that the best way to write--and maybe, for me, the only way--is in response to someone's request for it. But there's a lot of hubris in that. Who can ever expect to be asked? But I was this time. Thank you, Terry. 

One of Steinbeck's letters to his friend and editor, Pat.