I’ve wanted to be an author since I was a wee one sitting in my painted, wooden rocking chair pretending to read a work that I had memorized. I don’t fully remember the plot line, but it involved two characters named Jack and Jill and mountain climbing. The never vague part was how I jonesed
This Wednesday, our president Meganne Smith will lead a workshop on creative nonfiction. What is creative nonfiction, you ask? Creative nonfiction is where the arts meet the sciences - a mixture of perspective and personal truth. The most familiar form of creative nonfiction is memoir. We tell the facts as best we can, but who
As we wind down summer, I’d like to tell you about the recent Hooks and Lines Workshop Series. In May and June, thanks to the initiative of Carteret Writers Secretary Autumn Ware and Carteret Community College (CCC) Continuing Education Coordinator Heather Boney, our two organizations partnered to offer a six-week series of writing workshops
For National Poetry Month, we set out to explore different types of poetry. Since songwriting is a beautiful and creative way to express poetic thought, we turned to our own award-winning Emily Dunlap Carter whose recent exploration into songwriting has already won her and husband John Carter recognition from American Songwriter Magazine. Let’s start
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