Monthly Archives: March 2024

Ekphrastic Writing Contest winners inspired by 2024 Art From the Heart exhibition

By |2024-03-07T12:56:51-05:00March 7th, 2024|Categories: Poetry|Tags: , , , |

We would like to share the top three poems our talented members wrote for our second annual Ekphrastic Writing Contest in February. The Arts Council of Carteret County’s Art From the Heart show offered a collection of artworks in different forms, and our members wrote poems inspired by many of the sculptures, paintings, and

Skydiving for Authors

By |2024-03-04T11:40:27-05:00March 4th, 2024|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: |

My first time, I was so afraid. I stood with legs shaking; the view before me made my heart pound. It’s perfectly safe, I told myself. It will be over soon. It was a Carteret Writers Member who pushed me over the edge, and then there I was, free-falling into the unknown. You’ll never forget

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