Submit poems for the Friends of the Bogue Banks Public Library Poetry Display and Reading in partnership with NC Poetry Society Poetry in Plain Sight. The reading will be February 15, 12-2pm. Deadline is December 29, 2023. Email: fotbbpl.pub@gmail.com. Poems must be <20 lines, accessible and suitable for a wide audience.
This winter, EPIC Carteret is hosting a ghost story writing contest to celebrate the eerie beauty of the Crystal Coast and the age-old tradition of winter storytelling. The contest calls for participants with a connection to Carteret County, aged 16 and above, to submit their most spine-tingling tales inspired by the local lore, landscapes, and
One gloomy fall in the late 1900s, three insidious forces entered my life at the exact same moment, leading to a season of sorrow and fear the likes of which I have never experienced since. I was a college student, fresh-faced, innocent, and enjoying my first taste of intellectual freedom. Like one of H.P. Lovecraft’s
In 2018, I launched Les Stone Cold Killers, the lazily-titled first book of my campy Cold War YA adventure series Perilous and Sparks. At the time, Jack was occupied with renovating our old sailboat, and I was keeping the family afloat financially with my income as a copywriter. Read: we didn’t have much spare cash
Choose any personal photograph and look upon it as if you found it lying on the sidewalk. You have never seen it before and know nothing about anything or anyone pictured. Write the story that the photo tells.
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