Children's
Writers
Meets the second Thursday of each month.
Location: Sternberger Artists' Center
712 Summit Avenue
Greensboro NC
Free well-lighted parking in rear parking lot.
Start time: 7:00 pm
End time: 9:00 pm
June
Willson Read, Mary Webb and Polly Atkins are
co-facilitators of the Children's Writers genre at WGOT
June Read |
Mary Webb |
Polly Atkins |
June
Willson Read, Ph.D. has had a number of publications, including
both adult and children's stories, fiction and nonfiction. She has
written two Young Adult books and her children's stories have appeared
in several publications, including two WGOT anthologies, No GrownUps
Allowed and Candle in the Attic, and most recently in
Artisans of the Triad. She teaches adult classes on writing children's
stories and on creative nonfiction at Guilford Technical Community
College, where she also teaches Creative Nonfiction. She is active
in the Writers' Group of the Triad, Greensboro, NC where she is
past president, and co-facilitator for the Children's Literature
Writers and facilitator for the Nonfiction group. She has been writing
the WGOT newsletter since 1992.
Mary Webb placed first in the nonfiction category of the
Burlington Writers Club Awards (2002) and second place in the Children's
Poetry category (2003). She has a story and a poem published in
the children's anthology, Candle in the Attic. She has had
a Christmas story published in "Inside J.P.F." magazine and in "Artisans
of the Triad" and a short story published in the anthology, Wordworks.
She received a B.A. in accounting and business management from Lawrence
Technical University in Southfield, MI. Mary and her husband are
natives of Detroit and they now live in Reidsville, NC. She gets
story inspirations from their ten children and more than 30 grandchildren.
Polly Atkins hails from the mountains of North Carolina and
often flavors her stories with mountain dialect and folklore. A
member of the Children's Lit genre at WGOT, she has contributed
to two children's anthologies, "No Grownups Allowed" and "Candle
in the Attic." There is mountain magic in the way she tells her
stories, so she recently cut a CD titled "The Likes of Rufus Lee"
and presented it to a local station in hopes of having it aired
on public radio. In the near future, she plans to finish a collection
of "hill women" short stories which might become her first novel.
Along with writing psychological thrillers and children's short
stories, Polly loves observing people to get ideas for her writing.
Call June Willson-Read (336) 854-3597 or Mary Webb (336) 342-3020
or Polly Atkins (336) 993-6998 if you would like to become a member
of this group. You can also e-mail them at Jwrnc@aol.com or mbull68516@aol.c
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