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Wednesday Writers Group

WEDNESDAY WRITERS GROUP Weekly group open to writers of all genres. Improve your skills through peer readings and discussion of assigned literature. Barnes & Noble, 2 p.m.

Location: Asheville, NC
Members: 6
Latest Activity: Nov 6

Look for these books by Wednesday Writer's Group members:

Hopping, Michael. Meet Me In Paradise (2007) Visionary Cal Pennypacker and bare-knuckles businessman Possum Staehle have built a chain of five and dime stores into Paradise Superstores Inc. The world’s second largest retailer is the low price purveyor of everything except salvation.

That may soon change. Some years ago God instructed Cal to prepare a place for the Second Coming in Houston. Now, as Apostle Caleb of the Tabernacle of the Seventh Seal, Cal has an influential television ministry. As CEO of Paradise he pressures its board to Christianize the Superstores. Possum thinks too much religion is bad for business. It’s time for Crazy Cal to go.

Poling, Nancy Werking. Out of the Pumpkin Shell (2009) The teaching careers of lifelong friends Harriet (Hat) and Elise have come to an end in spectacular style, with the two women leaving more than burning bridges behind them. Now they are looking menopause straight in the eye—and they don’t care one bit for what they see. Fight, they vow, we’ll fight the interloper tooth and nail. More than a tad bruised and battered from the struggle Hat and Elise undertake a journey to Bryson’s Mill, Indiana, birthplace of Elise’s mother, Rose, who by any definition was inadequate to the simplest tasks of motherhood. Stella May and Margaret, old friends of Rose, hold keys to a past very different from Elise’s memory. When Elise adamantly refuses to accept their conflicting reality, Hat is confronted with choices—and risks—about what friendship with Elise actually entails. For both friends the journey to Bryson’s Mill becomes a pilgrimage of a different kind into the past lives of women, into truth, into sisterhood, and most of all, into new possibility. Out of the Pumpkin Shell is one of the most affirming, humorous, and engaging novels you’ll read this or any year.

Zottoli, Judith. Memories:  a collection of poems (2007) The poems speak eloquently and evocatively of the poet's love of her world—both of the beauty of the seasons and of her own past in her family.

Stubblefield, Jerry. Homunculus (2009) "When a man can't achieve intimacy with someone else, such as a wife, he ends up achieving it with himself, which is no good." Hector Owen is well aware of his problem. He's a washed-up playwright whose imagination and creative impulse nevertheless have failed to wane in spite of his efforts to deny them. With a lacklustre career behind him and a failing, sexless marriage in the Appalachian town to which he has retreated, Hec suddenly finds himself in the company of his own creation, a nasty, yet frequently charming homunculus calling himself Robin. And Robin, once freed from his lifetime of confinement within Hec's over-stressed mind/body, has a dangerous agenda that includes sex, love, and ridding Hec of his lovely wife.
 

Members (6)

Raymond W. Russell Rob Neufeld Michael Hopping Bernie Hale Jodi Nicholaus Shell Jerry Stubblefield
 
 

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Mary Adams added an event
December 5, 2009 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Kathryn Stripling Byer, Cecilia Woloch and Mary Adams will read from their recent poetry collections on Saturday, December 5th at 7:00 p.m. Byer,who lives in Cullowhee and is the former Poet Laureate of North Carolina, is author of a new chapbook...
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Hi Joy: Glad you've joined the fan club! Great Smokies Review Editor Elizabeth Lutyens tells me that the plan is to publish once a semester (fall, spring, summer). Her team is working on the spring issue right now, and they are aiming to post th...
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Tipper added a blog post
After Pap showed me how to parch corn-he told me about gritted bread. Pap recalls 2 types of bread being called gritted bread. The first was made by using fresh corn that had been allowed to dry slightly overnight or a little longer. A grater-us...
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Betty, I agree with you 100%. I am 88 years old,grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina. To leave the legacy of my life in those mountains to my children and future generations I have 3 books published and writing the 4th. All about how...
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Margaret Shook added a blog post
How does one select an editor? 12-3-09 Subject: Photos & WNC regional history
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Appalachian Authors Fair at Historic Old Fort Depot
December 5, 2009 from 12pm to 3pm
A showcase of regional authors who will discuss and sign their books at the newly renovated Old Fort Depot. Refreshments served.
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I am a fan of The Great Smokies Review. When will the next issue be posted?
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Susan Kathryn de Vegter Curiosity and likened creative people
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Julia Nunnally Duncan added an event
Radio Interview at WBRM Radio Station
December 2, 2009 from 8:15am to 9am
Julia Nunnally Duncan will be interviewed live on WBRM (1250 AM) on Friday, Dec. 4 at 8:15 a.m. She will discuss her new novel When Day Is Done and her 1 p.m. reading at the Appalachian Authors' Fair Saturday, Dec. 5.
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Good website. Thanks Danny www.hikertohiker.com
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Hi Danny: The Creative Penn has had some interesting articles recently about social networking and writers. From the research I've done, daily social networking probably doesn't seem helpful unless you are specifically trying to build a high-traf...
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Charles Vess Collectible Book Event at Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
December 13, 2009 from 7pm to 8:15pm
Store favorite Charles Vess will give a slide presentation and take questions before signing copies of his new hardcover retrospective book, Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess. If you are unable to attend this special event, we will ha...
on Tuesday
Christine Hale I'll be signing my novel Basil's Dream at Malaprop's in Asheville on Friday, Dec. 11, from 4-5.
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Chuck Connors is attending Rob Neufeld's event
Gary Carden plays on DVD reception at City Lights Bookstore
December 4, 2009 from 7pm to 8:30pm
City Lights Bookstore hosts a reception for Gary Carden's new DVD, Elizabeth Westall's performance of his play, Nance Dude. Carden will also talk about the director's cut of Prince of Dark Corners, soon to be released.
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