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February 2025 CW Meet-Up

By |2025-01-16T14:21:16-05:00December 17th, 2024|Categories: |Tags: , , , , |

Our February meet-up will occur on Wednesday, 2/19 from 4-6pm at Clawson's Restaurant in Beaufort. We will participate in a Carteret Critique, passing our work to fellow writers for feedback, using constructive critique guidelines. Please bring 3-5 pages of work, stapled or otherwise attached together. Each reviewer will spend fifteen minutes on a piece of

Member Spotlight: Jan Parker

By |2023-09-14T16:24:19-04:00September 12th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , , |

This week I was lucky enough to cross paths with the creative mind of Jan Parker. I discovered that her involvement in the arts community past and present is extraordinary, that the more you are involved, the better artist you become, and that community is the silent partner of all our artistic endeavors. Her current

Eddy Says Be Nice to Editors

By |2023-08-28T14:31:40-04:00September 5th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , |

September is Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month, and we’ve planned our blog and our Third Thursday event accordingly. We’re kicking off the month with the return of our own spicy Southern writer and editor Jan Parker. Around here, you know her for her whipsmart Eddy Says posts that dole out editorial wisdom to

An Editor’s Insights on the Publishing Path

By |2023-09-10T08:56:16-04:00July 4th, 2023|Categories: |Tags: , , , , , |

Join us on September 21st, from 4-6 PM, for an enlightening event inspired by Be Kind To Editors Month! Our special guest Jan Parker is an acquisitions editor with Main Street Rag, a beloved regional literary journal, and she’s the author of our own Eddy Says blog post series. Get ready to dive into the

Eddy Says: A word on critique

By |2023-01-07T12:31:22-05:00February 7th, 2023|Categories: Non-Fiction|Tags: , , , , , , |

Congrats to all of you fiction writers getting published out there. For those of you running into walls, here’s help. In this series, pick up one-minute pointers from the Fiction Acquisitions Editor of a NC Indy press. Take what you need and leave the rest. A word on critique If you agree to critique another

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