Maureen Ryan Griffin: WordPlay

02/24/2026

I'm honored and excited to be a part of PLCM's Community Read program this year, leading a writing workshop featuring themes and passages from J.D. Klune's fantastic novel The House in the Cerulean Sea at three different locations and times. Hope one of them works for you. Details at

Wait time for new book arrivals may increase. Learn moreAll Library locations and bookdrops will be closed on Monday January 19 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  

04/25/2025

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04/25/2025

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04/03/2025

Whether you write prose or poetry, I hope you can come to this Saturday afternoon's free poetry workshop at the Matthews Library. I just finished putting together the handouts, chock-full of tips and tools that will support you and your writing. Can't wait and would love to have you! Click to register. Be sure to click again to be taken to the actual form, as the library is upgrading their regular system.

Our online calendar registration system is currently down as we work to transition and upgrade our Library Catalog. To register for this event, please follow this link: https://forms.office.com/r/TX3GrfuPgN Celebrate National Poetry Month with this lively, instructive workshop with local author Maur...

02/25/2025

You're invited to a WordPlay Coastal Writing Retreat at beautiful Sunset Beach this coming weekend. There are a few spots left if you happen to be free on what is shaping up to be a gorgeous weekend weather-wise. Details: https://www.wordplaynow.com/coastal-writing-retreats/
I can offer this only because of the kind and generous help of Brynn Logan and Matt Griffin and several terrific caregivers. Thanks so much, you two, for making it possible for me to spend time in a place I love doing work I love!

02/27/2024

What a joy it was to celebrate the launching of my dear friend Gilda Morina Syverson's latest memoir, A Healing Journey, amazon.com/Healing-Journey-11-Beyod-Pandemic/dp/B0CCCNTTYW. To hear my writing buddy since 1988 speak about and read from this engaging, inspiring book I've witnessed come into being paragraph by paragraph was just wonderful! I highly recommend reading it--it could well be life-changing.

11/27/2023

If you're free this Saturday morning, December 2nd, and want to jumpstart your writing life, this inexpensive workshop sponsored by the Charlotte Writers Club, led by the incomparable Lisa Otter Rose, is just the ticket!

This fun and interactive workshop will help you to put your writing year into focus. We’ll start with some warm-up exercises. Next, we will select our own word (or words) of the year. Finally, we will put our word(s) of the year to use by creating an action-plan for our writing year ahead. I belie...

10/17/2023

Looking to reconnect with your writing? Or recharge? Or begin? Grab one of th two remaining spots in my coastal writing retreat at peaceful, beautiful The Sunset Inn November 10th - 12th. Details: https://www.wordplaynow.com/coastal-writing-retreats/.

09/14/2023

What a joy It was to be back with Ann Campanella and Gilda Morina Syverson at CPCC to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown at the this year's Irene Blair Honeycutt lecture!

09/06/2023

Sharing this petition from a trusted organization to preserve a family of bald eagles off Elm Lane near our home. If this speaks to you, please read and sign. Thanks!

Save The Eagles Request Charlotte City Council VOTE NO on Rea Road Rezoning

09/04/2023

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