March and April 2014 Meetings

March: Joseph D'Agnese

Asheville author Joseph D'Agnese is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, This Old House, and many more publications. His science writing has been published in Discover, Seed, and Wired, and was twice named to the annual Best American Science Writing anthology. But it's his short detective fiction he's joining us to talk about: his crime fiction has appeared in Shotgun Honey, Beat to a Pulp, Plots with Guns, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, to whom he sold three stories in 2013 and has already sold another two in 2014. Join us in March as Joe talks about how he writes and sells his short crime fiction.

March 1, 2014 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
North Asheville Library
1030 Merrimon Avenue
Asheville, NC 28804
Admission is free.







April: An Introduction to Scrivener

Scrivener is a popular word processing program built specifically for authors of novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and non-fiction, allowing users unprecedented opportunities to organize their notes, research, and outlines. Join Red Herring author Alan Gratz for a discussion of Scrivener, with examples of how he uses the program to write novels. Whether you're just interested in learning more about Scrivener, or already own Scrivener and want to learn new strategies to get the most out of this sophisticated software, this workshop is for you!

April 5, 2014 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
North Asheville Library
1030 Merrimon Avenue
Asheville, NC 28804
Admission is free.


Please join us!