Wilton Barnhardt: How to punch up humor at NCWN Conference

Rebecca McClanahan

Did I say that the 2015 Hollins writer-in-residence Rebecca McClanahan will  lead a workshop on shaping the raw material of family history into an engaging and artful text?

• That the hilarious Wilton Barnhardt, author of the Charlotte-based novel, "Look Away, Look Away," will talk about ways to punch up the humor in your writing.

• That award-winning Charlotte poet Cedric Tillman will talk about cutting the fat and getting at the marrow of your poetry.

• That the dashing Davidson poet Anthony Abbott will tell you everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

• That Chantel Acevedo, editor of Southern Humanities Review, will lead a workshop on the structure of a novel.

• That Queens University writing professor Julie Funderburk will talk about poetry and time -- how it flies, slows, how we remember and forget, how we dread and anticipate.

• That Pulitzer-finalist poet Morri Creech will discuss how meter, rhyme and fixed forms can generate new and exciting poems.

• That the Charlotte-based literary agent Sally McMillan will serve on a panel about agents and editors.

Have I told you lately that there's all this and more?


The North Carolina Writers' Network 2014 Fall Conference, Nov. 21-23, will convene at the Sheraton Charlotte Hotel. 

Pre-registration closes Friday, November 14. Register now!

For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.