Carteret Writers

Back to School: Crafting Your Writer Brand
2023-08-17 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Morehead City Train Depot, 1001 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Save the date for our exciting “Back to School” event on August 17, 2023, from 4-6 PM! This event is all about helping you showcase your unique voice and style. Get ready to take your writing career to the next level using insights from our guest speaker. Stay tuned for an announcement of the speaker’s name and the location.
We invite all attendees to bring your writer bios for a fun and interactive “trade and grade” activity. Through collaboration with fellow writers, you’ll consider what makes some bios pop and receive constructive suggestions to enhance your own.
But that’s not all! As a special treat, we’ll have a professional photographer on site, offering complimentary headshot sessions exclusively for our members. Update your author profile or social media accounts with a polished and professional headshot, courtesy of Carteret Writers.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to invest in your personal brand as a writer. Join us for an empowering evening filled with learning, networking, and gaining confidence in your writer’s identity.

From Virtual to Vibrant: Maximizing Online Reach and Local Engagement in Your Author Platform
2023-08-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
From Virtual to Vibrant is a four-evening course designed to support writers in building a strong online and in-person presence. Having an author platform is essential for connecting with readers, expanding your reach, and establishing your brand. This course will explore effective strategies and practical techniques for developing a robust online presence through social media, websites, and email newsletters. Additionally, we’ll delve into the importance of building in-person connections, finding your community, and leveraging local networks for a more meaningful platform. Dates include:

Monday, August 7, 6 – 8pm
Monday, August 14, 6 – 8pm
Monday, August 21, 6 – 8pm
Monday, August 28, 6 – 8pm

The price for the four two-hour classes is $58 total, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in CCC’s Wayne West building.

2023 Summer Doldrums Challenge
2023-07-16 - 2023-07-29 | Online
From July 16 – 29, we’ll deliver a daily writing prompt directly to your email inbox. You take that idea and run with it for as long as you can. When you’ve wrung it dry, submit your word count and your favorite passage (100 words or fewer) using the form located in the email.
Click here to learn more about the challenge and/or sign up here.

Hooks & Lines: Marketing Copywriting Workshop
2023-06-26 17:30 - 19:30 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series
Marketing Copywriting with Autumn Ware
Enjoy a light summer sampler of six writing workshops to inspire, challenge, and ignite your creativity.
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series is a unique partnership between Carteret Writers and Carteret Community College, designed to cultivate creative expression and inspire writers of all experiences and backgrounds in our community. These hands-on workshops are an opportunity to explore diverse writing techniques and topics, connect with other local writers, and cultivate your creative passion. In the final workshop, Carteret Writers Secretary and professional copywriter Autumn Ware helps you develop your marketing skills to create compelling copy that promotes your writing and attracts readers and publishers.
The price for the six-workshop series is $58, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in Wayne West Rm 113.

Hooks & Lines: Scriptwriting Workshop
2023-06-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series
Transforming a scene into a script with Thomas Kies

Enjoy a light summer sampler of six writing workshops to inspire, challenge, and ignite your creativity.
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series is a unique partnership between Carteret Writers and Carteret Community College, designed to cultivate creative expression and inspire writers of all experiences and backgrounds in our community. These hands-on workshops are an opportunity to explore diverse writing techniques and topics, connect with other local writers, and cultivate your creative passion. In the scriptwriting workshop, Thomas Kies will share how his popular novel series inspired a local theatrical production and how he used the art of scriptwriting to bring Geneva Chase to life.
The price for the six-workshop series is $58, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in Wayne West Rm 113.

Member Workshop: Fast Drafting Your Novel
2023-06-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Next Chapter Books & Art, 320 S. Front Street, New Bern, NC, 28560, United States
Sherri Hollister’s workshop “Fast Drafting Your Novel” will teach you how to layer your writing. Pre-registration required.

Hooks & Lines: Poetry Writing Workshop
2023-06-12 17:30 - 19:30 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series
Writing Poetry with Emily Carter

Enjoy a light summer sampler of six writing workshops to inspire, challenge, and ignite your creativity.
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series is a unique partnership between Carteret Writers and Carteret Community College, designed to cultivate creative expression and inspire writers of all experiences and backgrounds in our community. These hands-on workshops are an opportunity to explore diverse writing techniques and topics, connect with other local writers, and cultivate your creative passion. Explore the world of poetry with award-winning songwriter Emily Carter, and craft powerful pieces that captivate readers.
The price for the six-workshop series is $58, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in Wayne West Rm 113.

Hooks & Lines: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
2023-06-05 17:30 - 19:30 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series
Creative Non-Fiction with Emily Carter

Enjoy a light summer sampler of six writing workshops to inspire, challenge, and ignite your creativity.
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series is a unique partnership between Carteret Writers and Carteret Community College, designed to cultivate creative expression and inspire writers of all experiences and backgrounds in our community. These hands-on workshops are an opportunity to explore diverse writing techniques and topics, connect with other local writers, and cultivate your creative passion. In the Creative Non-Fiction workshop, you’ll learn how to craft compelling narratives while exploring the line between fact and fiction with Carteret Writer and essayist Emily Carter.
The price for the six-workshop series is $58, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in Wayne West Rm 113.

NCWN Two-Part Online Class: Building Your Platform As A Writer
2023-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
The North Carolina Writer’s Network is offering a two-part online class with KB Brookins. Their class Building Your Platform As A Writer is now open for registration.
Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve got a book deal and are ready to take your work to the next level, building an author platform is a necessary tool in the business of publishing. Learn about what goes into creating a platform and what having a platform can do for you in this 2-hour class. KB will be covering: social media, website copy and design, crafting a bio, and how to submit and how to find the right venues for your work, and more.
KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the Saguaro Poetry Prize. KB’s poems and essays are published in Academy of American Poets, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. They have earned fellowships from PEN America and Lambda Literary among others, and currently serve as the 2022-23 Poet-In-Residence at Civil Rights Corps. KB has two forthcoming books, Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing,April 11, 2023) and PRETTY (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024).

Hooks & Lines: Fiction Writing Workshop
2023-05-22 17:30 - 19:30 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series
Fiction Workshop with Thomas Kies
Enjoy a light summer sampler of six writing workshops to inspire, challenge, and ignite your creativity.
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series is a unique partnership between Carteret Writers and Carteret Community College, designed to cultivate creative expression and inspire writers of all experiences and backgrounds in our community. These hands-on workshops are an opportunity to explore diverse writing techniques and topics, connect with other local writers, and cultivate your creative passion. In the second workshop, Edgar-nominated author Thomas Kies shows you how to transform real world experiences into engaging fiction while exploring the power of storytelling to connect with readers on an emotional level.
The price for the six-workshop series is $58, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in Wayne West Rm 113.

May Meeting: A Hands-On Website Workshop
2023-05-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Morehead City Train Depot, 1001 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Join us for our May meeting where we’ll introduce exciting new features on our website, including customizable member pages and forums where you can connect with other writers. We understand that technology can be intimidating, but we’re here to help! Our experienced members will guide you through signing in, customizing your profile page, and using the forums, so you can connect with one another during our summer hiatus. You’ll be amazed at how easy and fun it can be to connect with other writers and get more out of our community. Plus, the skills are transferable to your own WordPress author website. As always, we’ll make time for socializing and sharing your writing, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn and grow with us!

Hooks & Lines: Creative Play & Writing Workshop
2023-05-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Carteret Community College, 3505 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series
Creative Play & Writing with Autumn Ware
Enjoy a light summer sampler of six writing workshops to inspire, challenge, and ignite your creativity.
Hooks & Lines: A Summer Writing Workshop Series is a unique partnership between Carteret Writers and Carteret Community College, designed to cultivate creative expression and inspire writers of all experiences and backgrounds in our community. These hands-on workshops are an opportunity to explore diverse writing techniques and topics, connect with other local writers, and cultivate your creative passion. In the first workshop, Carteret Writers Secretary and professional copywriter Autumn Ware warms you up with a course in creative play, something that all serious writers should be skilled at.
The price for the six-workshop series is $58, and you can register using Instant Enrollment online, by calling CCC’s Life Enrichment department at 252-222-6200, or by emailing boneyh@carteret.edu. The class will be held in Wayne West Rm 113.

Member Book Signing: Sarah Swan
2023-05-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Next Chapter Books & Art, 320 S. Front Street, New Bern, NC, 28560, United States
Sarah Swan will be signing books at the Next Chapter Bookstore in New Bern on May 13.

April Author's Sunday at the New Bern Farmer's Market
2023-04-30 13:00 - 16:00 | New Bern Farmer’s Market, 421 S Front St, New Bern, NC, 28560, United States
Carteret Writers member Sarah Maury Swan is helping organize another Authors’ Sunday event at the New Bern Farmer’s Market in April. It’s a great opportunity to set up a table, show off your titles, and meet other writers and readers. Tables will be $10 each.
Interested in participating or want more information? Contact Sarah and let her know your genre, e.g., mystery, romance, religious, self-help, children’s books (picture books through YA), etc. An eclectic area will be provided for those of you who write in multiple genres.

Quadrennial Conference
2023-04-15 08:30 - 17:30 | Carolina Home & Gardens, 4778 NC-24, Newport, NC, 28570, United States
On April 15, Carteret Writers will be celebrating 40 years of building community among Eastern North Carolina writers and readers at the stunning local event venue Carolina Home & Gardens. Join us as we explore fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry with some of the state’s most prolific and powerful writers.

Conference Committee Zoom Check-In
2023-04-13 16:00 - 17:00 | To Be Decided, NC
Join us as we plan, organize, and prepare for the April 15 Quadrennial Conference. We’ll need assistance with talent management, program refinement, catering oversight, marketing, logistics, and more. There’s definitely a perfect role for you, and you don’t even have to leave home to help!

Conference Committee In-Person Check-In
2023-04-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Carolina Home & Gardens, 4778 NC-24, Newport, NC, 28570, United States
Join us as we plan, organize, and prepare for the April 15 Quadrennial Conference. We’ll need assistance with talent management, program refinement, catering oversight, marketing, logistics, and more. There’s definitely a perfect role for you.

Conference Committee Zoom Check-In
2023-03-23 16:00 - 17:00 | To Be Decided, NC
Join us as we plan, organize, and prepare for the April 15 Quadrennial Conference. We’ll need assistance with talent management, program refinement, catering oversight, marketing, logistics, and more. There’s definitely a perfect role for you, and you don’t even have to leave the house to help!

March Meeting: Writing Graphic Novels
2023-03-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Arts Council of Carteret County, 1702 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
March is for exploring new things! We will talk about the elements of graphic writing, try our hand at some graphic writing, and share our work. Create something entirely new at our meeting, or bring something you would like to make into the first pages of your graphic novel. Poets – bring a poem to set in illustration! We will devote some time during the meeting to share our work – whether it’s something you brought to read or it’s what you just created. Four minutes is your guide for the length of a reading.

Conference Committee Zoom Check-In
2023-03-09 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-23 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-09 16:00 - 17:00 | NC

March Board Meeting
2023-02-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Arts Council of Carteret County, 1702 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Questions should be directed to events@carteretwriters.org.

Art from the Heart Author Reading
2023-02-12 13:00 - 15:00 | 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC 28557, 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
In February 2023, Carteret Writers is partnering with the ACCC and the NCAC to bring the literary arts to the popular annual Art from the Heart event, which showcases hundreds of pieces from Carteret County artists of all ages. On Saturday, February 12, 1─3 pm, we will be hosting an author reading to promote and celebrate the literary arts in Carteret County.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and by the Arts Council of Carteret County.

Art from the Heart
2023-02-11 - 2023-02-25 | 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC 28557, 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
The Arts Council of Carteret County 34th annual art show features original artworks in varied mediums from local artists. All pieces in the show are for sale.

Art from the Heart Chamber of Commerce Reception
2023-02-09 17:30 - 19:00 | 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC 28557, 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Join the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce in celebration of the opening of the 34th Annual Art From The Heart Show and Sale. Enjoy appetizers from Amos Mosquito’s with a glass of wine or beer while you view the art show. Bring business cards to network and enter the door prize drawing.

Art from the Heart Early Viewing
2023-02-04 12:00 - 14:00 | 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC 28557, 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
In February 2023, Carteret Writers is partnering with the North Carolina Arts Council (NCAC) and the Arts Council of Carteret County (ACCC) to bring the literary arts to the popular annual Art from the Heart event, which showcases hundreds of pieces from Carteret County artists of all ages. On Saturday, February 4, 12─2 pm, Carteret Writers members will get an early opportunity to view the local masterpieces in order to prepare for the ekphrastic writing contest we’re hosting with our partners in the arts.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and by the Arts Council of Carteret County.

Ekphrastic Writing Contest
2023-02-04 - 2023-02-08 | 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC 28557, 4915 Arendell St, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Carteret Writers is holding an ekphrastic writing contest in conjunction with the Arts Council of Carteret County’s Art from the Heart Event. Ekphrastic writing aims to vividly describe visual art pieces in literary form, creating another representation of the visual art piece in writing.
Participants in the ekphrastic writing contest may view visual art submissions before the Art from the Heart event officially opens on Saturday, February 4th from 12pm until 2pm in order to begin formulating their ekphrastic responses in time for the February 8, 8am contest submission deadline.
Ekphrastic entries will be displayed for the entirety of the Art from the Heart show, and attendees to the show throughout the event will vote to determine the top three ekphrastic responses.

Conference Committee Kick-Off Meeting
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Carteret County Chamber of Commerce, 3332 Bridges Street Ste 6, Morehead City, NC, 28557, United States
Pulling off a one-day conference in three months is going to take some doing, and we’ll need all the help we can get. Thank you to members who have already volunteered to help. It’s not too late to volunteer if you haven’t yet! If you’ve been on the fence, come to the committee meeting on January 26, 2023 to see how you can help make our Quadrennial Conference an event to remember.

Conference Committee Pre-Planning
2023-01-25 15:30 - 17:30 | Carolina Home & Gardens, 4778 NC-24, Newport, NC, 28570, United States
Board members will be finalizing preparations for CW’s first Conference Committee meeting to make sure it’s speedy and productive.
