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Flatiron Writers Blog: Flatiron Writers Short Fiction Contest

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A writers blog from the Flatiron Writers group in Asheville, North Carolina. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Flatiron Writers Short Fiction Contest. Followers of the Flatiron Writers Blog (and others): The Flatiron Writers Short Fiction Contest begins December 1, 2009. Check out the complete contest rules on our website home page at www.flatironwriters.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Flatiron Writers Short Fiction Contest.

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Events

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Coming in 2015 from the Flatiron Writers: Encore presentations of Page to Podium with Mel Ryane and Creating Your Writing Life with the Flatiron Writers, and a new workshop on adapting novels to screenplays. Stay tuned! Upcoming Readings and Events. Jan 27, 2011 7 pm Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. Jan 29, 2011 3 pm Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, Asheville, NC. Feb 4, 2011 6 pm Accent on Books, Asheville, NC. Feb 9, 2011 9 pm Live call-in radio interview, WPTF radio, Raleigh, NC. June 21, 2011, noon–Br...

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Listen to “Things Summoned” Courtesy of The Drum–A Literary Magazine for Your Ears

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Listen to “Things Summoned” Courtesy of The Drum–A Literary Magazine for Your Ears. December 18, 2013. My short story, “Things Summoned,” is featured in the December 2013 issue of The Drum. You can download and listen to me read it here: http:/ www.drumlitmag.com/index.php? Previous post: Join Me For a “Such A Character” Workshop Starting February 18, 2014. Next post: Join Me For Back-To-Back Literary Events in the Mountains, September 6-7, 2014. Under The Mercy Trees. Under The Mercy Trees,.

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Writings

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For those of you who like a family tree to help keep characters straight in a family drama novel, here’s one my 6th grader drew for the Owenby Clan of Solace Fork:. Under The Mercy Trees. A beautifully-rendered, heartbreaking first novel about a man forced to face his troubled past when he returns to his small hometown in the mountains of North Carolina after the disappearance of his brother. 8211;Jill McCorkle, author of Going Away Shoes. Irons in the Fire: Stories from the Flatiron Writers. Under The M...

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Join Me This Summer for “Sustaining Your Writing Life”

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Join Me This Summer for “Sustaining Your Writing Life”. May 7, 2013. Join me this summer for “Sustaining Your Writing Life,” a five-week workshop I’ll be teaching for the Great Smokies Writing Program on Monday evenings 6-8:30 starting June 3rd (location TBA). Do you long to write, but just can’t seem to work it into your life? Do your writing resolutions last about as long as your New Year’s resolutions to go to the gym? Register at: http:/ agc.unca.edu/great-smokies-writing-program.

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On Being an Inconsistent Writer

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On Being an Inconsistent Writer. October 17, 2012. My wonderful long-time writers’ group, the Flatiron Writers, will come to my house to critique the new novel I handed out to them to read a month ago. I’ll provide food and drink and then sit like the proverbial fly on the wall while they discuss my novel the way a book club would. Under The Mercy Trees. Under the Mercy Trees was well-received as a literary novel and in spite of myself I have felt some pressure to produce something new that is just as go...

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Luddite Author Enters 21st Century: Creating an eBook

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Luddite Author Enters 21st Century: Creating an eBook. September 11, 2012. I am the second most technologically-impaired person I know. (First prize goes to my mother). I am so inept that after ten years of living in my house I still haven’t memorized which switches turn on which lights, and my husband had to prepare a notebook for me with instructions for operating the stereo and DVD player. He labeled it How My House Works. Yes, but at least I didn’t have to hire my teenager to help me create it! 2010 ...

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Heather Newton — Writings, Events and Workshops — Page 2

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Twitting. Tweetering. Tweeting–Whatever You Call It! March 20, 2013. I don’t do Twitter, because I already have too many time-sucks in my life, but here are my responses to Twitter interview questions posed for an Indie book event: 1. Favorite book as a child? Chronicles of Narnia 2. What are you reading right now? The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova 3. Why independent bookstores matter? Read the full article →. On Being an Inconsistent Writer. October 17, 2012. Read the full article →. October 9, 2012.

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Mama’s Fat Pants: The Gift of Written Expression

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Mama’s Fat Pants: The Gift of Written Expression. October 9, 2012. By the end of my senior year I had decided I would keep writing, and I haven’t stopped since. Here, with the permission of the author, is her poem:. Mama’s Fat Pants, by Madeleine Cox. Mama has some pants. They aren’t like her other pants. She wears them when she knows we are the only ones looking at her. Mama has her fat pants. Her gray gateways to freedom. She can fly like a bird. Or swim like a fish. Or dance to the stuff on the radio.