Writing Life Stories: About

Glenda Council Beall
Writer,
Poet,
Teacher,
Consultant,
Speaker
Glenda Beall was born in SW Georgia and grew up on a farm with six brothers and sisters. She loved the outdoors and spent most of her youth riding horses. She now lives in the beautiful and inspiring mountains of North Carolina with a spoiled cat and misses her buddy, Rocky, who died recently.
She has been writing as long as she can remember but did not begin publishing her work until 1996.

Her poem, Tomato Man, won first place in the Clay County Arts Council Poetry Contest in 2007 shortly after she began submitting poetry for publication.
She also won third place in the James Still Poetry Contest held by Appalachian Writers Association. She is listed in the Poets and Writers Directory of Poets and Writers.

In 1998, she published a family history through Genealogy Publishing, Franklin, NC. Her first non-fiction piece was published in an anthology, Forks in the Road. In 2009, her poetry book, Now Might as Well be Then, was published by Finishing Line Press.
Her poetry, memoir, and fiction has been published in literary journals, numerous anthologies, slick magazines, and online journals. She has read her work on Writers Radio in Chattanooga, TN.
After losing her husband, Barry, to cancer in 2009, she opened Writers Circle around the table in her home in 2010 where she holds classes in writing and publishing. She invites highly qualified guest instructors to teach there throughout spring and summer.

See Writers Circle Schedule at http://www.glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.com/ for an up- to- date listing of upcoming workshops.
Glenda is available for private classes. Call her at 828-389-4441to discuss what you need and how she can best help you.

Read an interview with Glenda by Paula Canup: http://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/2011/02/meet-glenda-beall.html

She has been on faculty at John C. Campbell Folk School and at Tri-County Community College in Murphy, NC. She has taught writing at the Institute of Continuing Learning at Young Harris College in Young Harris, GA and for the EAGLE Program at Sautee Nagoochee Methodist Church.

She is active in the North Carolina Writers' Network and was Program Coordinator for the western chapter, Netwest, for two years, 2007-2009. She serves as Clay County Representative for NCWN West.
She hosts Coffee with the Poets, a monthly writing event held at Cafe Touche, 82 Main Street in Hayesville, NC. Each month a poet shares original poetry with the audience of writers, readers and listeners of poetry. Open Mic follows.

Glenda serves as Marketing Director for Netwest for the anthology, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge now in its second printing.
She is a member of the Byron Herbert Reese Society, the NC Poetry Society, the Georgia Poetry Society and the Clay County Historical and Arts Association.

She truly loves seeing her writing students grow in confidence and self-esteem through writing.
"I feel we are all learning every day and none of us have all the answers. Therefore, when we share with others, we benefit as well. Teachers learn from students and students learn from teachers and from each other." Glenda Beall

Glenda is passionate about clean indoor air and speaks and writes on the subject of dangerous chemicals in cleaning products in our homes and maintaining a healthy indoor environment for children and older people.

She is happy to speak at civic clubs, book clubs, or other meetings within driving distance of Hayesville, NC.