...The white dog trots ahead

and pokes his nose into bushes

                 left bare by last week's freeze. Snow will fall

            before dawn, dress firs, pines and oaks,

       hills and houses in winter's wrapping.

               I stop, savor the closing moments of dusk,

    loath to go within and face the truth.

               Will my brother see another autumn's gold?

      Or does Eternity wait like the glistening

days of December, beckoning light

   so bright he is drawn forever away? 

                                          ... Glenda C. Beall

         Glenda Council Beall has published poetry, memoir, short stories, interviews, and creative nonfiction in numerous literary magazines, newspapers, slick magazines, online journals, and anthologies for the past twenty years. 

 She is the author of 

Now Might as Well be Then, 

poetry chapbook 

and 

family history collection

Profiles and Pedigrees

Thomas Charles Council and His Descendants

She is owner/director of Writers Circle Around the Table, in Hayesville, NC. Glenda teaches writing in the Community Enrichment Program at Tri-County Community college.

She is co-administrator for:

Netwest Writers:  Find news of members of the North Carolina Writers' Network West and how you can become a part of this group.


Visit Writing Life Stories where Glenda writes about her family and all things she loves and some things she questions.

Check out Writers Circle Around the Table and see what talented writer or poet will teach next in the comfortable and homey atmosphere of Glenda's writing studio.

Contact Glenda Beall: 

• to speak to your writers group 

• to help you plan a writing event in your area

• to help organize a critique group that works

• to teach a writers' workshop 

• for advice before you publish

• Opportunities include: Readings with Q&A - 30-45 minutes in length. Lectures and workshops on memoir and fiction are one to three hours. Fees, negotiable, travel expenses additional. 

828-389-4441