Writing Life Stories

Carroll Taylor, Lorraine Bennett, Marcia Barnes, seated at table with their new books. When I see how many writers in our part of the state ...

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.   ...Oprah Winfrey I admire Oprah Winfrey. When we hear the difficulties she fa...

I came to live in western NC in 1995 because my husband and I had always wanted to live in the mountains and near a body of water. Clay Cou...

JC Walkup, writer, editor and publisher On www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com site, JC Walkup wrote a post about why writers should join ou...

Congratulations to Nancy Simpson. The dessertery at Phillips and Lloyd books in Hayesville, NC was full and over-flowing with poets on Satur...

Congratulations to Nancy Simpson ! Her collection of poems, Living Above the Frost Line , published by Carolina Wren Press is a lovely book...

I came downstairs to my studio today and found a man in a brown uniform, the UPS man, hauling boxes up my steps - one after the other, in a ...

Where: John C. Campbell Folk School, 1 Folk School Rd. Brasstown, NC Registration/Contact: 1-800-FOLK-SCH or http://www.folkschool.org/ ...

Today has been terrific for me . First I opened an email from Helen Losse, editor of Dead Mule  School of Southern Literature to find that f...

I took this photo behind Orchard House where our writing classes are held. The John C. Campbell Folk School has published classes for n...

I have to say tonight I am elated. Nancy Simpson sent out the acceptance letters today for the new NCWN West anthology, Echoes Across the B...

I am honored this blog was chosen by Nancy Simpson AND Sam Hoffer for the Friendship Award. My, oh my, two awards for my blog. I'm glad ...

Writing Life Stories has been given the Fabulous Blog Award by Nancy Simpson of Living Above the Frost Line. Thank you, Nancy. Your blog...

This is Orchard House at John C. Campbell Folk School . Here, in the living room, in the middle part of the old farm house, I met Nancy Sim...