Monthly Archives: November 2013

Interview with Lisa Williams Kline

15 Weeks

The Art & Craft of Writing!

Lisa Williams Kline - 2Lisa Williams Kline will be a presenter at the Pamlico Writers Conference in March of 2014. She will discuss writing a multi-volume young adult series.

Lisa authored Sisters in All Seasons, a five-volume young adult series, as well as Write Before Your Eyes, The Princesses of Atlantis (in its fourth reprinting)and Eleanor Hill, winner of the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award. Her stories for the young have appeared in Cricket, Cicada, Spider, and Odyssey magazines. She earned an MFA from Queens University and lives in Mooresville, NC with her veterinary husband. Continue reading

Interview with Liza Weiland

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PWCC’s

The Art & Craft of Writing!

Liza WeilandLiza Wieland is an American novelist, short story writer and poet. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. Her novel A Watch of Nightingales won the 2008 Michigan Literary Fiction Award. Liza earned her B.A. in English from Harvard and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has taught at Colorado College and California State University-Fresno, and has been a Professor of English at East Carolina University since 2007. Continue reading

Interview with Richard Krawiec

17 weeks

The Art & Craft of Writing!
Saturday, March 8, 2014
9:00 am – 6:00 pm

The 2014 Pamlico Writers Conference will have eleven presenters representing almost every genre of writing. I will post interviews with each of them, beginning with the panelists in the opening session “The Craft of Writing a.k.a., The Labor after the Inspiration”. In the next three blogs, we will hear from Liza Wieland, a novelist and professor at Eastern Carolina University; Dave Wofford, a book designer and graphic designer at Horse and Buggy Press; and Richard Krawiec, a writer, editor, and publisher at Jacar Press. For more information on these presenters, visit our website, www.pamlicowritersconference.org or check out their personal websites. Continue reading

Importance of Writers Groups

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The Art & Craft of Writing!
Saturday, March 8, 2014
9:00 am – 6:00 pm

Last week we announced the date of our upcoming 2014 Pamlico Writers Conference and Competition (March 8, 2014).  In that announcement, we also shared two websites for you to visit for information and registration.

Website: http://www.pamlicowritersconference.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pwconference2014

In this week’s post, I’d like to talk about the importance of writers groups. Continue reading