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Winter Hauntings: From a Bare-Bones Idea to a Full-Fledged Literary Experience

By |2025-02-20T14:33:56-05:00February 20th, 2025|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , |

Photos from Winter Hauntings were taken by local talent L. Terrell Gould, III. A risk worth taking When I first set out to organize Winter Hauntings in 2023, I’d never coordinated a writing contest with judges and radio ads and cash prizes, much less planned an event around one. I had a secret weapon, though:

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

Save the date for an evening of ghost stories to celebrate local storytellers

By |2023-12-18T12:05:46-05:00December 12th, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

Writers from Down East to downtown Newport and beyond, including a number of Carteret Writers, submitted a cursed county’s worth of terrifying tales to the recent EPIC Carteret ghost story contest. Let me tell you, these are not children’s stories. There’s no Caspar the Friendly Ghost in this lot. They'll test the boundaries of your

NCWN Two-Part Online Class: Building Your Platform As A Writer

By |2023-05-02T15:29:30-04:00May 2nd, 2023|Categories: |Tags: , , , |

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

Celebrating National Poetry Month: Ekphrastic Writing Contest winners inspired by Art From the Heart exhibition

By |2023-04-04T10:35:24-04:00April 4th, 2023|Categories: Poetry|Tags: , , , |

In honor of National Poetry Month, we would like to share the poems that our talented members wrote for our inaugural 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

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