The Pamlico Writers
Group is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of our 2016 anthology of
short stories and poems written by our members with a section of award winning
prose and poetry from our 2015 and 2016 competition winners.
A
Carolina Christmas isn’t your traditional holiday feast of tinsel and sugar
plums. While there is still a smattering of stars sprinkled through the pages
and a little glitter and artificial snow lighting up a few plastic Santas,
these stories are filled with more than ornaments and figgy pudding. From
broken hearts to hopeful reunions, holiday anxiety to joyful tidings, the
truest gift of Christmas is still found to be family, faith and friendship. But
these stories are not fairy tales and every holiday is not Peace on Earth.
“Readers are in for a holiday treat
with the 2016 Pamlico Writers Anthology with its Christmas theme.” ~Marni
Graff, award-winning author of The Nora Tierney English Mysteries and The Trudy
Genova Manhattan Mysteries
“A
Carolina Christmas establishes itself as a holiday classic, a must read.
The journey isn’t your typical holiday adventure.” ~Angela Beach Silverthorne,
author of Depression Cookies,
two-time silver medalist in Women’s Fiction and Chick Lit for Readers’ Favorite
and Cries of Innocence, a five-star
Contemporary Christian Fiction.
Author/Poets & Titles
Suzannah Lynn Cockerille: How I Can Be So Sure Santa is
Real (creative non-fiction)
Jonathan Clayborne: Winter Finds the Cardinal (poem)
Jerry Cuthrell: Unsolicited (poem), Candles (poem)
Nancy Eure
Cordano: Misfits of Christmas Eve
Anne Blyth Davis: Orbit (2015
High School Competition ~ Poetry First Place)
Pam Desloges: Christmas
Chaos (poem)
Deborah H.
Doolittle: My Mother’s Rocky Road to Dublin (#1), Here
I am Laughing with Bears (#2), Elizabeth Bishop Attends to the
Amarilli (#3)--(2016 Adult Poetry Competion~ First Place)
Diane de
Echeandia: Christmas Cards-Bah Humbug! (poem), Spring
Melt (2015 Adult Poetry Competition~First Place)
Polly Frank: My
Christmas Tree (prose)
Sarah Haglund: Pray
For Her (2016 High School Competition~ First Place Poetry)
Ted Harrison: In The
Same Country (recreation of Biblical story)
Sherri
Lupton-Hollister: Lexie and Ethel, Season of Hope, and Three
Dresses (fiction)
Jeanne Julian: Allison’s
Adventures on Christmas Eve, Holiday Flotillia (poem)
James Keen: Christmas
Stocking Conversation (creative non-fiction)
Richard Knowles: Long,
Cold Road (2016 Adult Competion First Place Non-Fiction)
James Lupton: Christmas
Adventures (creative non-fiction)
Michaela
Rappleyea: Rolling in Her Grave (2016 High School
Competition~First Place Prose)
Doris Schneider: Innocence
on Holiday (creative non-fiction), The Gift (creative
non-fiction), and Christmas Confession (fiction)
Merry Simmons: The
Naming of Things (2016 Adult Competition First Place Fiction)
Millie Johnson
Sparks: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Courtney Staton: A Letter From a Gifted Kid (2015
High School Competition ~ Prose First Place)
Allison Stuart: The Combination (2015 Adult
Competition First Place Fiction)
K D Wilson: Forgetful Adjustments (fiction)
Michael Worthington: Ayden Racial Unrest (2015
Adult Competition First Place Non-Fiction)
The Pamlico Writers
Group is from the Innerbanks of North Carolina, where the Tar and the Pamlico
rivers meet in the town of little Washington. They’re housed just off the river
in the old Turnage Theater, the oldest still-standing Burlesque Theater House
still standing in North Carolina and home of the Arts of the Pamlico. The
Pamlico Writers are a non-profit group and we affiliated with the Arts of the
Pamlico.
The Turnage Theater stands on Main Street just one street over
from the waterfront. The town of Washington is on the Inner Banks of North
Carolina, where the Tar and Pamlico Rivers meet, just down the sound from the
Atlantic Ocean. Forestry, watermen, and Military history are abundant in
Washington and Beaufort County.
The Pamlico Writers Group hopes to use the funds generated by this
anthology to assist in this, our fifth annual Pamlico Writers Conference March
17 and 18, 2017 with Keynote speaker Zelda Lockhart.
Pamlico Writers Group
Officers/anthology organizers:
PWG chairperson: Sherri
Lupton-Hollister in charge of planning, theme and media
Financial Director:
James “Jim” Keen in charge of formatting anthology and setting up Submittable
and Drop-Box
Programming Director:
Kay Wilson assisted with all aspects of planning and media
Conference Director:
Doris Schneider in charge of editing and cover planning
Member: Jeanne Julian
assisted with editing
Member: Marni Graff
marketing
2016 Pamlico Writers Competition Winners
(L to R) James Kelley, Michaela Rappleyea, Michael Worthington,
Merry Simmons, Marty Silverthorne (in front), Richard Knowles, Sarah Swan,
Deborah Doolittle, Jack Fay.2016 Winners of the Pamlico Writers Competition
photo taken at the back of the Turnage Theater after the 2016 Pamlico Writers
Conference. Photo taken by Sherri
Lupton-Hollister
2015 Pamlico
Writers Group Competition
Pamlico
Writers Competition is an annual juried writing contest featuring adult and
student authors. Started in 2013, the current event featured adult contests in
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and student contests in Prose and Poetry. First, Second, and Honorary Mention Cash
Prizes were awarded in the Adult competition while a cash student scholarship
was awarded in each student contest.
(L to R) Nancy
Clark, Alison Stuart, Kayla Wyrick, Courtney
Staton, Polly Frank, Diane De Echeandia, Debra Kornegay, Michael Worthington, Anne Blythe Davis.
Heather Bell Adams and Lane Schroeder were not present.
Heather Bell Adams and Lane Schroeder were not present.
Connect with the Group here:
Suzannah Lynn Cockerille
Suzannah graduated from
Virginia Tech with a degree in architecture and most of her elective credits in
literature courses. She expected to become an artist, but now her medium is the
alphabet. She writes both poetry and prose, runs a blog, and is writing a novel
with the working title John Boy and the She-Devil. Suzannah’s work
spans topics ranging from personal stories to politics and social justice to
humorous pieces. She’s had poems published in The Poet’s Domain, her
college literary magazine, and various articles published online and in
newspapers. She blogs as “Coco Q” at www.shinybutter.com, and her
Facebook page is www.facebook.com/TheShinyButterBlog.
Jonathan is the author
of five locally staged plays, one of which was sponsored by a grant from the
North Carolina Arts Council. He is an award-winning former editor, reporter,
and columnist for the Washington, NC, Daily News, and winner of a
deadline-reporting award from the N.C. Press Association. A native of Grifton,
NC, and a resident of Washington since 1993, he is an entrepreneur in different
fields, including creative writing. He has written a novel and a book of
poetry, which he plans to publish soon. Part of the Haunted Pamlico cast,
community theater group affiliated with Arts of the Pamlico, you can find him
on Facebook.com/jonathan.clayborne or Facebook.com/HauntedPamlico
Nancy lives in North
Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro with
a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Her varied professional career
includes behavioral health, industrial, and Faith Community nursing. She has
had a passion for writing since her youth, and has completed courses with the
Institute of Children’s Literature and Long Ridge Writers Group. She has
published two novels. Her additional new joy is learning to paint, finding that
her expression in art, layered and vibrant, is similar to her writing.
Follow her on Facebook page or check out her author page on the Pamlico
Writer Group website. New member of the Pamlico Writers Conference Steering
Committee.
Jerry Cuthrell
Poet, mentor and the
original chairman of the Pamlico Writers Group. Jerry grew up in Belhaven and
went to work in his family’s bakery as a young boy. He attended the University
of North Carolina but went to work for a national agricultural company in
Oregon. He and his wife Connie raised two sons. After returning to Beaufort
County, he settled in Washington and started his own business and the Pamlico
Writers Group. Jerry is still an active member and this anthology is dedicated
to him and beautiful word-pictures.
Anne Blyth Davis
Anne is a freshman at
Duke University from Swan Quarter, NC. In her spare time, she enjoys
photography, reading, running, and writing short fiction. She plans to major in
math and computer science, and minor in creative writing.
A former member of Marni
Graff’s North Carolina Writers’ Read in Belhaven, Anne Blyth Davis won the
Pamlico Writers High School Competition in Fiction two different years: 2013
& 2015.
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