Charlotte Litmosphere
Welcome to Charlotte Lit’s literary arts blog. What you’ll find here: reviews, interviews, craft essays, previews of literary arts events, and anything else that catches our attention, updated most Mondays.
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts, Inc.
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Breath
/in Blog, Keeping Pen to Paper /by Kathie CollinsOur lives are marked by breath. The first thing that happens when we leave the warm water of our mother’s body is the in breath. The very last thing we do, the thing that marks our passage from this world into the next, is the out breath. In between is a constant tide––inhale meeting exhale […]
Hearing Voices
/in Blog, Keeping Pen to Paper /by Paul RealiPart of Charlotte Lit’s “Keeping Pen to Paper” Series. Writers who are developing their craft are frequently encouraged to find their voice. This can be confusing. Many of us write in many different forms — poems, personal essays, fiction, screeds, and so on — and different forms, even from the same writer, can require different […]
Surviving a Difficult Time
/in Blog, Keeping Pen to Paper /by Megan RichPart of Charlotte Lit’s “Keeping Pen to Paper” Series. Many of us are experiencing a difficult period of life, and, no doubt, we have gone through difficult periods in the past. Read “On Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner and consider another, earlier difficult period in your or your character’s life and how you or they […]
Be Here Now
/in Blog, Keeping Pen to Paper /by Kathie CollinsPart of Charlotte Lit’s “Keeping Pen to Paper” Series. If you were alive and awake during the 1970s or have practiced much yoga or meditation during the last two decades, you’ve probably heard the refrain Be Here Now, which also happens to be the title of a best-selling book by author and one-time Harvard University […]