#WritersCoffeeClub 10/5: Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

Ōtautahi Christchurch lays claim to a lot of talented writers, including Eleanor Catton and Ngaio Marsh (two of my favourite authors). I wrote about them briefly in a post about notable kiwi writers: https://red-pens-and-playwriting.ghost.io/the-pride-of-aotearoa/

#WritersCoffeeClub 10 Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

A Mississippi poet is CT Salazar--here's his site: https://ctsalazarpoet.com/

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10. Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

Ashley Edge, from Tunstall, Stoke on Trent, is a writer and publisher of poetry of whose talent and energy I am in awe. I'm not just saying this because they accept stuff from me, either.

https://ashleyedgepoet.wordpress.com/

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10. Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

Michale Palin!

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10: Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, The Brothers Lionheart and Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter was born not too far away from here. Wilhelm Moberg was born even closer, and Carl von Linné was born very close to home. The more I think of it, the more authors I find from my region.

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

Maya Angelou (who taught at Wake Forest University in North Carolina)

Kathy Reichs (author of the Bones series. Lives in Charlotte)

Other Great Authors from Charlotte, NC: https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/01/04/charlotte-authors-writers-books-advice-344853

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10. Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

I think most of you would not recognize Arto Lappi or Seppo Jokinen. First one is Haiku poet. Latter one has just written the last novel of his series of police procedurals (TV series based on those novels are in some streaming services as "Lakeside Murders")

#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Have you ever realised you'd included an unintended shibboleth in your own work?

None that I can think of, with the possible exception of the L337 phrases I like to use in-story, and that may put me/my characters in the "hacker" category. I use that mostly because I like how it looks. Not to mention that I write in L337 in public, just because I like how people look at me when I do it. People that shouldn't be looking at what I'm writing, btw. '<|-|3$ /\/\1|20|/|35…=)

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10. Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

My locality is the internet, especially since Covid. I don't particularly base my reading on stylistics, and I don't particularly know who is or was local geographically.

(People seem to be answering 2 different prompts on this hashtag today. My answer to the one on collaboration is: not successfully, so the point is moot.)

#WritersCoffeeClub 8 Give an example of a project you've had to give up on.

Does waterproofing the roof of the building where I live count? It's a group project with other "writers" (my neighbors), and if you carefully analyze it you'll discover it's actually a pure fiction project, because we're been doing it since last year's November, and we haven't been able to do it, because the "characters" aren't ready, there's no "worldbuilding", and there's always another "story" to finish first…=-|

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10. Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

Lorna Suzuki, author of the Imago Chronicles, an epic fantasy series that includes many themes taken from Japanese history.

#WritersCoffeeClub May 10 - Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.

My region specializes in writers who specialize in 'regional flavour', just like the couple of regions before. Going back decades so I can pick among writers and poets living in Berlin surely is cheating.

Rosmarie Waldrop was born here but claims that she never even dreamed of becoming a poet until long after she moved to the US.

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/10. #MNastodon Recommend a local writer in your region. The Twin Cities are rich in local writers and poets so I’ll do a couple: Lois McMaster Bujold for sf and f; Raymond Luczak (brilliant poet who also happens to be gay and deaf); Mona Susan Power, Lakota Sioux author - her novel THE GRASS DANCER is some gorgeous magical realism and Ellen Hart, MWA Grand Master, acclaimed lesbian author of a long running mystery series featuring lesbian amateur sleuth Jane Lawless.