What we’re about
The Wilmington Write to Publish Group is a dynamic, dedicated community of writers.
Our mission is to provide support and networking opportunities for our members and the NC Writers' Network via safe, fun, interactive Presentations and Panels on Writing Craft, Publishing and Marketing with renowned, best-selling, guest authors.
Our Zoom Writing Intensives and Book Club events keep us connected with our fellow writers and readers.
We're a good group welcoming you, whether you are an aspiring writer or a published author!
Organizer Christine Moughamian, M.A., Writing Coach, Award-Winning Memoirist, NC Writers' Network Coastal Representative, facilitates our events to keep us connected.
All writers 18-years old and older are welcome.
Join us, it'll be fun!
Upcoming events (1)
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Books2Read: A Different Kind of Book Club!
We welcome NC Writers' Network members and friends. :-)Do you enjoy reading? How about talking with like-minded people about your favorite books?
If so, this Meetup is for you!
Join us on Zoom with a book you enjoyed, tell us why, and share in the fun. You might even sharpen your writer's skills by reading like a writer...
In the company of book lovers, you'll discover Books2Read in a different kind of book club, and connect with new friends.
You’ll love it!
Christine Moughamian will facilitate the BookClub.
Heather White will host the Zoom event.
(See Bios below)ATTENTION: Our Zoom events are meant to keep us creatively connected. Please keep your comments respectful and considerate. Thank you.
- MEETUP: RSVP on this event page.
The Zoom event link appears on this event page, Top right under "Online event." - ZOOM EVENT: Event starts at 7pm exactly on Thursday.
a) JOIN Zoom a few minutes early by clicking on link. (You will be in a “waiting room”).
b) WAIT for the Zoom host to let you in. Please make sure there are no background distractions and/or noises. Thanks.
c) From 7-8pm, be prepared to say your name, book title/author, why you chose this book, and read a short paragraph aloud.
NOTE: All “Chat” comments must be respectful.
6 TIPS FOR READING ALOUD
- Enunciate clearly!
- Slow down! Speak more slowly than you think necessary. Slower–– still!
- Make eye contact. Look up! (at your camera).
- Turn up the volume. Project!
- Practice reading aloud in front of a mirror. Practice!
- It’s OK to feel awkward, just laugh at yourself. Relax!
We’re all friends here. ☺
CHRISTINE MOUGHAMIAN / (Brief) BIO
Christine Moughamian is a writing coach, public speaker, poet and award-winning writer.Read her piece ARMENIA ~ A Song! A Dance! in Syncopation Literary Journal https://syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/volume-2-issue-3/
Christine mentors writers to write and complete their compelling stories.
She holds a Master’s Degree in English from the University of Bordeaux, France.Christine serves as the NC Writers’ Network Coastal Representative and the Organizer of The Wilmington Write To Publish Group, a Meetup community of over 1650 writers.
Christine was the Judge of the 2018 Writing For Children Contest for Shoal, The Literary Journal of the Carteret Writers. She won First Prize of the 2012 Fall Memoir Contest offered by the Writers’ Workshop of Asheville. She has published personal essays, interviews, poems, short stories and photographs in local and international magazines.
Christine is well loved in our community for her inspiring stories of personal transformation and her fun, interactive writers’ workshops. She traveled around the world until she found Wilmington, NC, which she is happy to call home.
HEATHER WHITE / BIO
Heather White is a writer and IT professional based in Wilmington, NC. She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Stephens College in Columbia, MO.Heather's work has been published in the 1999 Stephens College "Harbinger" Chapbook as well as "Inklings: Selections from Workshops at Inkberry," Vol I.
Heather produced her play, "Jack and the Beanstalk, 2.0" as a one-woman puppet show (Manchester Community Library, Manchester, VT). She has participated in professional and community theatre in Vermont, Missouri, New York, and Iowa.
Heather grew up in upstate New York and lived in Vermont. Her experience of the people and their relationship with the landscape inspires much of her writing.
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