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Our Authors/WritersA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Catherine Ashley-Nelson is a member of the Poetry and Nonfiction subgroups. She edited WGOT's newest anthology, Wordworks and coordinated the Poetry entries for the 2004 Greensboro Awards. Now retired from the English Department of NC A. & T. State University, she has led an active retirement. She edited the 1995 O. Henry Festival Stories.. Her poetry has been published in Blue Pitcher and Edge of Our World. She has served as past president of WGOT and was co-editor of two WGOT publications: The Voice Within and Introspectrum.. She has a provocative essay, 'Old Dreams for a New Millennium' in the anthology "A Turn in Time," a story that offers hope as she reflects on a prior trip to Russia. In writing, she believes in writing with all of the senses, and in "going there" for research. Ashley-Nelson writes knowledgeably about her experiences in Russia and Africa. She is now completing the final draft of a non-fiction manuscript about two years in the Peace Corps. |
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Demetra 'Tita' Bakas is the co-facilitator of the NSAI Songwriters (Greensboro Chapter), and is a member of the WGOT Children's Writers subgroup. She was also a former President of WGOT. Tita loves the power of words and the ability of the imagination to create new worlds to view. As a storyteller (Miss Tita), singer, songwriter and author, she invites children to experience fun, adventure, the natural world, and other cultures with her books, stories and songs. She has contributed to two children's anthologies published by Writers' Group of the Triad: "No Grown-Ups Allowed," and "Candle in the Attic." She has also written ""Black Eyed Susan", published by Creation of Celebration. The book, a story about an abused child, offers hope for children and families. Tita has also recorded an audiotape, "Peace for my Family," to accompany the book. Her newest CD is "Animal Totem Songs," published late in 2003. |
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Judith Behar has been a practicing lawyer, chiefly in the area of family law since 1975. She became a member of the Writers' Group of the Triad and the mystery writers' subgroup about a year and a half ago, but she has written poetry and fiction sporadically for years. Her poetry has been published in North Carolina publications and she has placed in two contests, second place in the Crucible poetry contest and honorable mention in the Robert Ruark fiction competition. She is a contributor to and an editor of the forthcoming anthology, Lines from a Near Country, a publication of the New Garden Friends Meeting, and her poetry also appears in the anthology, Wordworks. |
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Jenan Jones Benson participates in the WGOT non-fiction writers' groups. She writes agricultural and horticultural features for several publications including Country Folks Grower, Mid-Atlantic Farm Chronicle, The Fruit Growers' News and The Vegetable Growers' News. She's contributed travel stories to Our State: Down Home In North Carolina and the [Greensboro, NC] News & Record. She reviews audio books and writes features for AudioFile magazine. Her work also has appeared in Farmer's Digest, Hard Hat News and Georgia Backroads. Jenan also provides editing services, technical writing, grant writing and web copywriting. Visit her web site: www.awriterforent.com |
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Diane Lambright Berry has been a Wake County Writer in Residence in the Raleigh area for twenty years, teaching creative writing throughout the school system. She is a past board member of the NC Writers' Network and a former steering committee member of the Carolina Crime Writers' Association. She attended many conferences and workshops on writing, including: The Harriette Austin Writers' Conference in Athens, Georgia; the Cape Fear Crime Festival in Wilmington, NC (where she served as a panel member in 2002 and 2003; the Wildacres Writers' Workshop in the NC mountains; various NC Writers' Network State Conferences; and Malice Domestic in Washington, D.C. She is currently a member of the Carolina Crime Writers' Association in Raleigh, NC and the Writers' Group of the Triad in Greensboro, NC. She has two children's stories published in the anthology Candle in the Attic, one short story published in the anthology Deadly Plots, a second short story published in the anthology Wordworks, three short stories and three poems in the anthology Short and Sinister. She is the author of the middle-grade mystery novel Port City Pirates, and is currently writing an adult murder mystery novel. |
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Poet Lynne Martin Bowman has been a member of WGOT for more than 15 years. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green St. U. (Ohio) and PhD in English from UNC-Greensboro. Her poetry has appeared in the Georgetown Review, the Southern Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, International Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and Sow's Ear Poetry Review among a long list of other publications. In 2009, she won the Comstock Review's national chapbook contest with "Water Never Sleeps," (due out in winter, 2010). The same manuscript was also honored by NC Writers' Network in the 2002 Mary Belle Campbell Award contest with a Second Place (no publication). She also has been honored with the 1998 Sonora Review Poetry Prize, and has been twice finalist for the Emily Dickinson Award, and has had honorable mentions in the Icarus and the Randall Jarrell Poetry competitions. She lives in Greensboro with her husband, four rescued dogs, and one rescued cat. One dog is an unusual rescue for the suburbs: a Treeing Walker Coonhound, who does find some racoons in their backyard! |
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Lynn Chandler-Willis is facilitator of WGOT's Novel Writers I subgroup. She has written "Unholy Covenant", a true-crime novel about a murder in Pleasant Garden, NC. Shock waves rocked the small town when Patricia Blakely's charred body was discovered inside the burned-out home. Then the truth came out: Patricia had died from a bullet wound to the head. Lynn develops the story with all the suspense of the actual events as they occurred, taking the reader from the crime scene to the courtroom. The book is published by Addicus. ISBN 1886039410. List price: $17.95, but if you order it through Amazon.com and write a brief review after reading it, you can get 20 percent off. The book has been re-issued under the title "The Preacher's Son" and is available on Amazon and at all major bookstores, priced at $6.99. |
NOTE: How does one get to be included on this list? Being
an author or novelist and a member of Writers' Group of the Triad
will get you in for sure. Published WGOT writers with national magazine
credits or writers with stories published in anthologies also helps.
Being a facilitator of one of our genres or a WGOT board member
also gets you in. As you can see, we have had difficulties with
some of the photos, and we appreciate your patience and understanding.
We are still trying to get this sort of thing worked out. If you
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