Carolina Wren Press » Building Community

Please join CWP’s Board of Directors, some of its Authors and associated Friends, for conversations about writing, printing, publishing, on this, our new interactive website.

The book launch for Jeanne Leiby's short story collection, Downriver, will be held at 7pm, Friday November 2nd, 2007, at The Regulator Bookshop, 9th Street, Durham, NC. Final judge Quinn Dalton will make introductory remarks. The reading will be followed by a book-signing. Guidelines for the 2008 Doris Bakwin Award will be available at the reading. §

Posters of The North Carolina Alphabet by Pamela George and Walter Brown are now available. Click on Books and Merchandise for full ordering information. §

Plans for several online workshops are in the works: We will offer a one-time seminar in “How to Submit Your Work to a Publisher” in August 2006. In the fall, we’ll do a brief online poetry workshop. In February 2007, we’ll offer a class in prose writing—either memoir or fiction. Join the conversation and let us know what YOU would like to see!

The Other End of the SASE: Commandeering the Slush Pile
Editing a literary magazine is like walking through the looking glass. A writer and oft-rejectee blogs about what it's like to be on both sides of the process.

Jane Andrews and Alice Osborn blog about balancing writing with family life and going back to school.

Jaki Shelton Green writes about her travels as a poet.

Bill Fick blogs about Book Arts, Fine Press Printing, and connections between writers and artists.

Tanya Olson blogs about poetry and dance, among other things.

Join a conversation about about craft, genre, publishing questions, and other topics in our special chatroom, “the nest.”