Author Archive: Writers of the Triangle
Internships for Writing and Editing Skills
I am a sophomore student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, majoring in English. I’m planning to graduate college a year early, so this summer I applied for a number of internships on a site called www.internships.com. Ideally I was looking for something in the writing and editing field to start gaining professional experience [...]
Triangle Author Sandra Carrington-Smith Publishes Again
Saturday June 16, 2012 in Raleigh, Triangle Author, Sandra Carrington-Smith will have gathered with friends to celebrate the launch of a Raleigh North Carolina murder mystery, Killer in Sight. A third book to this fast writing author, with two more books well in progress. Known as a spiritual and sensitive soul, this author of Housekeeping [...]
Narrative Threads Artist Reception June 29, 2012 at Page Walker in Cary, NC
On Friday June 29, 2012, in the historic Page Walker Arts and History Center in downtown Cary, North Carolina, you will find a fascinating new show called Narrative Threads. The artists reception will start at 6pm, with many of the quilters and writers present. Narrative Threads paired poets and prose writers with quilters from the [...]
Raleigh Writers Conference on April 21, 2012
The Triangle Area Freelancers organization founded by Don Vaughan, is holding its 5th annual Write Now! writers conference on April 21, 2012 in North Raleigh. Pre-registration is $59 (seniors and students get a discount) for a day that begins at 8 am and ends at 4 pm with continental breakfast and lunch, in a comfortable setting [...]
Following the Dream by David Halperin
One January morning fifteen years ago, I sat down at my computer and began to write a story. I’d finished about three paragraphs when my wife came and peered over my shoulder at the screen. “It’s good,” she said. “Keep on going.” That, more or less, is how I became a novelist. I kept on [...]
March 25, 2012 at 2pm North Carolina Poetry Society Reading at McIntyres Books
The following announcement was edited from an email from McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village: North Carolina Poetry Society Series Reading: M. Scott Douglass, Jodi Barnes and Valerie Nieman: Sunday, March 25th at 2pm M. Scott Douglass About M. Scott Douglass. He founded Main Street Rag Publishing Company where he is now the publisher and managing [...]
March 25, 2012 in Asheville, NC, Laura Hope-Gill Leads Creativity Workshop
[Updated 3/21/2012] On Sunday March 25 between 10am and 4pm, in Asheville, North Carolina, Laura Hope-Gill will be offering “The Origins and the Inner Practice of Creativity” an alchemy workshop. From Laura Hope-Gill’s website: “In 1998, I read Fritjof Capra‘s Web of Life. I was living in a small cabin in the Pacific Northwest at the [...]
Author Readings at Triangle Area Bookstores
These are just a few of the Triangle area bookstores where authors hold readings. The link goes straight to the event page for that site if they have one. McIntyre’s events are on the right sidebar of the page. McIntyres at Fearrington Village Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh The Regulator [...]
North Carolina Novelist Andy Holloman Talks about Twitter
Writers of the Triangle asked Andy Holloman, a Raleigh North Carolina based writer, now author of his first novel, a thriller called Shades of Gray, to share some of what he’s learned about marketing his book in the past year. Things I’ve learned on my short road to being published — Twitter! I have [...]
Poet and Author Laureates in North Carolina
North Carolina celebrates and cultivates writers. It does so in many many ways. And one of those ways is bestowing the noble title of “poet laureate” upon poets and “laureate” upon writers. There are the state level laureates, and there are area or regional laureates. One thing they all have in common, is the way [...]
