An Update on NCWN 2020 Fall Conference
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WINSTON-SALEM—We will gather together in literary community again, someday.
That day just won’t come this fall.
The staff and board of the North Carolina Writers’ Network has decided to cancel this year’s Fall Conference, scheduled for November in Durham.
Instead, we will offer the Writingest State Online Conference, a virtual alternative, November 10—14.
We aim to offer our next Fall Conference, still in Durham, in November 2021.
The amount of planning and preparation that the Fall Conference requires forced us to make a decision sooner, rather than later. Though we want to be optimistic, none of the information available to us now—about the rate of infections, the state of current treatments, and the timetable for a cure or vaccine—suggests that gathering more than 200 writers in a hotel will be a safe or responsible course of action.
We look forward, with great and aching longing, to the day when we can pack as many of North Carolina’s writers—along with all our attendant angst, anxiety, and ambition—as we can into a single place. We look forward to sharing inspiration and encouragement, excellence and opportunity and community, again, together, face to face.
Until we can do so safely, though, we will continue to offer that community through internet connections, staying apart but not alone.
We will open registration for the Writingest State Online Conference by early September, and will have full details about it in your fall newsletter and on www.ncwriters.org. We hope you will join us then, from wherever you are.
NCWN Critiquing and Editing Service to Accept Electronic Submissions
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WINSTON-SALEM—For years, the North Carolina Writers’ Network has offered a Critiquing & Editing Service to its members. Through this service, NCWN members can have their unpublished work reviewed by established editors and writers, at below-market rates.
Now, they can have their work reviewed without ever leaving their desk chairs, thanks to the C&ES’ new e-delivery option.
The new e-delivery option allows NCWN members to register and pay for the Critiquing & Editing Service using an online form, and submit their work as an e-mail attachment to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
“E-delivery saves our members money and time,” NCWN executive director Ed Southern said, “and saves the Network money, time, resources, and aggravating trips to the post office.”
Electronic submissions to the C&ES will cost the same per-page as printed submissions: $3 per page for up to 50 pages, and $2 per page thereafter.
The administrative fee for electronic submissions, though, is only $15, compared to $30 for printed submissions.
All but two of the Network’s current critiquers will accept electronic submissions. Turnaround time will be faster, of course, since no packages will travel through the mail.
“Seriously, if you know how congested the parking lot of our local post office gets, you’ll wonder why we didn’t do this sooner,” Southern added, perhaps missing the point.
“We had planned to start offering e-delivery long before we were all sheltering-in-place,” Southern said, “but social distancing did make this move a higher priority.”
For more information on the NCWN’s Critiquing & Editing Service, or on the Network itself, visit www.ncwriters.org.