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"Writing suited my temperament, and my lifestyle too. I was extremely shy, and I lived with a large, loud family in which it was difficult to be heard. I turned to the page when I had something to say. It didn’t really matter if anyone read it or not, as long as I got it said."
... more about Nancy Peacock

We are all equals on the writing path and each of us is both beginner and expert.

Life Without Water
Chapter 1
My name is Cedar and I was born in 1969 in one bedroom of a gray and tumbling house in Chatham County, North Carolina. My mother’s name is Sara. My father called himself Sol. My mother has told me over and over and over again the story of their courtship... Read more...

Home Across the Road
Cally was born with blue eyes, daughter of both black and white, but white did not claim her, except as property. Born a slave to a slave mother, Cally became a slave herself and when she was big enough she hauled water to the big house for cooking and cleaning. Read more...

A Broom of One's Own
From the essay, “Enquiring Minds”
Mrs. Clark and I always took lunch together. She set a place at the breakfast bar for me right alongside her place. Two paper towels spread to put our food on. I would pull my lunch out of my soft cooler. It was different things on different days. Read more...

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"I now run writing workshops in my studio. I live with my husband, Ben, and a resident box turtle named Caroline in a small house in Chatham County. Well, actually Caroline lives outside and has, so far, graced us with her presence every morning. "
...more about Workshops and Classes

Calendar
Ongoing Writing Groups and Classes:
Wednesday night – Women’s Writing Group
Thursday Morning Women's Writing Class
Every Friday Morning - Jumpstart Your Writing: Playing Your Way to Plenty of Pages

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen

New Class!!
Thursday evenings
6:00 to 8:30
Starting in July

The Best Little Writing Class in the Triangle For Women
This class is an ongoing and supportive class that includes prompt writing, discussion of
students' works, and detailed written critiquing of those works by Nancy Peacock
author of A BROOM OF ONE'S OWN: WORDS ON WRITING, HOUSECLEANING
AND LIFE, HOME ACROSS THE ROAD, and LIFE WITHOUT WATER,
chosen as a NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE.

Tuition is $125 per month.
Please email Nancy for more details.

Come cook stories in our next Prompt Writing Class:

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
10:00 to 12:00 pm
Chapel Hill Friends of the Library
Chapel Hill Library Conference Room
Bring paper and pen. The muse will be waiting for you.

"Give yourself some space before you decide to write those big volumes. Learn to trust the force of your own voice. Naturally, it will evolve a direction and a need for one, but it come from a different place than your need to be an achiever. Writing is not a McDonald's hamburger. The cooking is slow, and in the beginning you are not sure whether a roast or a banquet or a lamb chop will be the result." -- Natalie Goldberg - WRITING DOWN THE BONES

June 22 - 26, 2009 Focus on Form, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC Creative Nonfiction

January 19 - March 9, 2010, Tuesday evenings, Central Carolina Community College, Pittsboro, NC Weekly Class in Fiction