MEETING RECAPS (click link)
MEMBER KUDOS (click link)
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Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Contest is OPENED.
January 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th - 10am-12pm: Building Better Scenes: Four Sessions with Sarah Creech
Thursday, February 4th, 2021, 7:00-8:30pm: In the Key of New York City: A Virtual Event with Rebecca McClanahan and Gilda Morina Syverson
February 8th - 7pm: CWC’s Virtual Writing Salon with Tiffany Grantham
February 16th - 6:30pm: Kimmery Martin - No Matter the Genre, Suspense is the Key to a Successful Novel
February 16th - CWC Non Fiction Contest winners announced
CWC Poetry Contest Is Open - Closes February 16th
February 27th, 2021 - 1pm - 3pm: A Virtual Playwriting Presentation with Elizabeth Searle
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February 19th, 2021 Virtual Open Mic Night - Link to register will be sent in an event announcement email to CWC members.
(You do not need to register to come to listen and support your fellow writers.)
Open Mic Nights will remain virtual until COVID pandemic is under control.
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Charlotte Lit - 4X4CLT, Wednesdays@Lit, a catalog of classes, Studio Two
North Carolina Writers Network
The Writers' Workshop
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Charlotte Readers Podcast: Where Authors Give Voice to Their Written Words
North Carolina Arts Council - Artist Opportunites for Submissions. Click on 'Literary Arts' links when you get to the page.
Arts and Science Council - Grants for Creative Individuals
Check out what’s happening at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Resources for Writers
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OTHER Opportunities
December 1st - January 30th - Open Submission for the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize sponsored by North Carolina Writers Network.
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Queen City Suspects, a New Sisters in Crime Chapter
This Charlotte chapter, was started in December 2019 and is looking for writers and readers and anyone interested to join. Sisters in Crime (SinC) is an international organization founded in 1986 to promote the professional development and advancement of women writing crime fiction. For more about the organization contact the president, Jacy Sellers, at QC Suspects.
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The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) in partnership with Biblioboard is taking submissions for the 2020 Self-Publishing Literary Award. Each year BCALA honors the best self-published eBooks by an African American author in the United States in the genres of Fiction and Poetry. These awards acknowledge outstanding achievement in the presentation of the cultural, historical and sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora.
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Each genre prize winner shall receive:
$500.00 award
Formal recognition at the Black Caucus of ALA Literary Awards
BCALA Literary Award Seal to use in marketing. The deadline is February 28, 2021.
Authors, you can learn more and submit at BCALA Ebook Contest.
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