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Writers Notebook: Seminar on preserving your stories
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Published: November 8, 2009
The Farm at Weathers Creek will present a seminar Saturday about memoirs and the preservation of family stories.
Ann Wicker, a co-founder of The Weathers Creek Writing Series, will lead the session. Her book, Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas, was a finalist in ForeWord magazine's annual contest for books by independent publishers.
The seminar will meet from 10 a.m. to about 3 p.m. at the farm, near Mooresville. Registration is $75, including lunch. Reservations will be accepted through Monday.
To learn more, go to www.weatherscreek.net.
Call for entries
□ Annual memoirs competition: The Writers' Workshop is accepting through Nov. 30 submissions from adult writers. Entries must be unpublished and no more than 4,000 words. The entry fee is $20 for each memoir, $15 for members. There will be cash prizes. For complete guidelines, go to www.twwoa.org.
□Changing My World essay contest: The Writers' Workshop is accepting through Nov. 30 submissions from writers ages 8-18. The essay should deal with in 15 or fewer pages an issue of concern to the writer. The entry fee is $5 for each essay. There will be cash prizes. For complete guidelines, go to www.twwoa.org.
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