Barbara Johnson and Roger Colberg Share Their Award-Winning Short Stories and Memoir
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In today’s episode number 57, we meet two award-winning writers of Charlotte Writers Club writing contests, Barbara Johnson for her non-fiction work and Roger Colberg for his short stories.
We start with Roger reading his award-winning piece entitled “At the Pond,” where the main characters are the animals. Barbara’s first read is from her memoir in progress, an excerpt from her award-winning piece, “Five Lies,” about a young Barbara whose father won’t buy her the shoes she needs for school. Contest judge Michael Chitwood called it a “rich and wonderfully detailed account of the pain and joy of innocent belief.”
Roger and Barbara read two other pieces on the show, with Roger reading from his award-winning piece, “The Lucky One,” and Barbara reading two other stories from her memoir in progress, entitled, “A Desire to Kill” and “The Shotgun.” Contest judge Robert Inman called “The Lucky One” “a mesmerizing and vividly told story of two men, long-ago friends, meeting again with one intending to help the other, where in a subtle but profound way, the writer probes each man’s demons, leaving the reader to decide which one most needs help.”
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Roger Colberg began writing short stories nine years ago, which was a bit of the road less traveled by for the man who obtained his college degree in Economics and Mathematics from Albion College in Michigan and followed it with a 34-year career with the Internal Revenue Service. But Roger has always taught himself to write, because in 1983, when computers were introduced to IRS field offices, Roger learned to write software and went on to create the Charlotte Software Development Center, that implemented major systems nationwide. He admits he never did any creative writing while he worked for the IRS, but he says he enjoyed reading excellent fiction in the form of tax returns that landed on his desk, submissions filled with real life characters and strange plot twists. Roger resides in Charlotte where he writes and participates in several Charlotte Writers Club critique groups.
Barbara Johnson grew up in a sharecropping family in Leasburg and Blanch, North Carolina, where she was one of ten children. Her family moved around to five different farms by the time she was 16 and despite a number of obstacles, her father among them, she was the first of her siblings to finish high school and the only one to attend college, graduating in 1977 from Bennett college in Greensboro, North Carolina with a degree in Sociology. After a rewarding career in Telecommunications with AT&T, Barbara devotes much of her time to writing, including her work on a memoir of her challenging life. She has given voice to her writing in venues such as The Matthews Playhouse, Queens University and The Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius. Barbara currently resides in Charlotte with her husband George A Davis, where she is a member of Charlotte Writer’s Club and the North Carolina Writers Network.
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