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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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As the current facilitator for Poetry Writers, Diana Engel celebrates and encourages the diverse voices in this critique group. In addition to keeping these poets abreast of readings, workshops, and conferences available, she is beginning to add occasional information sharing/workshop sessions to the regular critique meeting agenda. The intent is to speak to practical concerns such as successful publication as well as writing development topics unique to poetry: voice, purposely metered poetry versus free verse, syntax and music, etc. Most recently, Diana served as the bibliographic instruction librarian in the Hege Library of Guilford College from 1998-2006. Her poetry has appeared in The Shagbark Review and the WGOT anthology, Wordworks. |
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Gail Fleagle, member of the Childrens Writers subgroup, is the author of Play Ball, published by Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc. Her book has English and Spanish versions. Gail and Mary Webb authored the story of Fred Dickerson in the book, Silent Like a Lamb. She ghost wrote several stories in the book, Freedom's Heroes. Two of her short stories are included in the WGOT anthology, Candle in the Attic. A biography about Gail is included in the reference book for libraries, Something About the Author, published by the Gale Group. Gail has authored two interview columns, had features in News & Record and the national publication, Science and Children. Her published writing has included fillers for The Friend, and The Mailbox Teacher. She reviewed children's books and was a member of the teacher advisory board for Instructor. She has won three writing contests. Gail is a performing storyteller. She is currently working on two children's books about missionary doctors in Guatemala and Mexico, and a two-part book about a Kosova immigrant. |
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Nancy Gotter Gates is a long standing member of the Writers' Group of the Triad, having served 13 years as its treasurer on the board of directors (1990-2003). A Greensboro resident, she is the facilitator of WGOT's Mystery Writer's group I. Twenty-six of her short stories and dozens of poems and articles have been published in regional, national and international publications. She is also an artist. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in the prestigious 1985, 1987, and 1995 O. Henry Festival Stories. She has also appeared in Children's Digest, and North Carolina Literary Review. Nancy has completed three novels and edited the book, Creative Writing/Cooking, (1994) a collection of recipes by well known state and national writers, published by Down Home Press. She has also contributed to two WGOT children's anthologies, No Grown-ups Allowed (1995) and Candle in the Attic (2001), to the WGOT mystery anthology Deadly Plots (2002) and to the WGOT adult anthology Wordworks (2003). Her most recent novel, A Stroke of Misfortune, has been sold to Silver Dagger Mysteries. |
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Helen Goodman is a member of the WGOT Mystery Critique group. Her novel, The Blue Goose, was a finalist in St. Martin's Malice Domestic contest. It is now being considered for publishing by Silver Dagger Press. She has written an historical novel and two mysteries, and is currently working on a third mystery. She is a retired nurse, now widowed, has four children and five grandchildren. She has been writing for about 20 years and has won several writing awards. She has had articles published in Reminisce, Alive, and the Charlotte Observer. Her writing and biography are included in Our Words, Our Ways, a textbook published by Carolina Academic Press. Helen is also a playwright, collaborating on the script for an award-winning outdoor historical drama Ripple in the River, produced for the past nine summers and performed in the Helen Goodman Amphitheater, named in her honor. |
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Wendy Greene holds a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University and currently teaches English at Guilford Technical Community College. She has been a member of the Writers' Group of the Triad for six years as a charter member of Mystery Writers I. She has studied creative writing at Wildacres and at Duke University. Her poems have appeared in the Piedmont Literary Review and in The Windless Orchard. Her short stories appear in All That Jazz and Deadly Plots. She is also an editor and contributor to a new anthology of poetry recently published by the New Garden Writers' Group, and is currently working on two mystery novels about a medieval historian. New poems will appear in a forthcoming collection, Lines from a Near Country. Her love of sailing is often a theme in her poetry and prose. "Stealing Sailing" won Honorable Mention in the Elizabeth Daniels Squire Mystery Contest, 2002. |
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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
are listed here without a photo or wish to have a different photo
used than the one on the website, please email a digital copy (.jpg
files preferred) to Webmaster Karen McCullough at karen@kmccullough.com.
Please put "WGOT" in the subject line. If you are not
listed here but want to be, please forward a short bio (not to exceed
100 words) and photo to the same address.
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