We are excited to share that North Carolina Writers’ Network featured Wilkerson’s Hasta Manana at their website’s “Book Buzz” news section. It is rewarding to see Hasta Mañana recognized in the company of other such distinguished authors.
About the Author
Critically acclaimed author, Carolyn Wilkerson, wishes you, the reader, to take away an authentic depiction of reality and its many diverse interpretations, as it currently exists on all sides of border/migration management issues, considering their inextricably intertwined, social, cultural, and economic factors.
Although Wilkerson has used her writing skills to author professional documents, she notes that she was shy by nature and a closet writer of fiction and poetry for many years. Writing is a way Wilkerson liberated her thoughts from her head, even when no one read them but her. Writing helped her to absorb the grief of losing her father at age twelve, her mother two weeks after her sixteenth birthday, and writing poetry helped her to deal with the anxiety of living in Washington, D.C. during the late 1960’s riots. Writing was also an affordable therapy when her marriage fizzled after just three years.
Wilkerson published articles and a biweekly newspaper column in what seems like another lifetime. Since most beginning writers don’t have a predictable income and she was raising a young child without child support, that career path was not an option. Now, her son, a retired U.S. Federal Agent, is helping her to fulfill a dream deferred. Wilkerson encourages others who have had to make practical choices in years past to revisit their childhood dreams, inspiring others to embrace the passion that might still be there under the cocoon like layers of life that got in the way, just waiting for a breath of fresh perspective to unfurl their wings.
History of the North Carolina Writers’ Network
In the mid-1980s, a small group of writers and teachers met at the Poetry Center Southeast of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, to discuss starting a statewide literary service organization. The group had surveyed writers, teachers, editors, librarians, publishers, and lovers of literature who embraced the notion of a statewide organization because many felt isolated from literary opportunities. They wanted to have access to events and support groups. By June 12, 1985, the organization was approved as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and the North Carolina Writers’ Network was born.
The Network strives to lead, promote, educate, and–most importantly–connect writers, at all levels of skill and experience, from across the state and beyond. Though the Network’s programs and services have adapted to changing economies and new technologies, we recognize that writers will always need to work toward excellence, search for opportunity, and feel a part of a community.