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Intro to Flash Fiction
January 17, 2023 in Blog, Craft /by Charlotte Lit AdminPrimer on the Sonnet’s Volta as a Moment of Transformation
January 11, 2023 in Blog, Craft /by Charlotte Lit AdminThe Underrated Magic of “Telling” In Creative Nonfiction
October 28, 2022 in Blog, Books /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Meghan Modafferi Surely you’ve heard the common refrain, “show, don’t tell.” And it’s good advice, I’ll admit, as most of us are awfully used to the telling, and could use some practice with the showing. But in my view, the real magic comes when we sneak the two together like teenagers under the bleachers, […]
How to Write About Sex
September 20, 2022 in Blog, Books /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Sarah Creech Good sex in fiction relies on powerful description skills, but what makes it “good” has much more to do with character and conflict than the sensory experience of sex on the page as mere titillation. Sex is always a power dynamic in story with various parties claiming power by different methods and […]
Why “The Iliad” Still Matters
August 26, 2022 in Blog, Books /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Jeffrey Thomson The Iliad is a book of transitions; it is a fundamentally a book of liminal moments. This is a story from the basement of history—from the moment when we began the movement from an oral storytelling culture to a culture of written literature. It establishes many of the characters and tropes of the modern […]
Writing Interiority
August 23, 2022 in Blog, Craft /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Dustin M. Hoffman Occasionally, I get jealous of other artistic mediums. All we have to tell our stories are these words on the page, black ink on a white page. This can seem like a disadvantage when looking at the explosive, varied forms of expression the other mediums wield. Sadly, we just won’t be […]
Let Me Tell You What I’ve Learned During the War: Children’s Books in Bomb Shelters and Beyond
March 22, 2022 in Blog /by Charlotte Lit Adminby Oksana Lushchevska Let me begin by taking you back to February 23rd, 2022. It was the day before Russia started a full-scale war in Ukraine. As a creative writer and instructor, I was teaching a “How to Write Children’s Books” course to my Ukrainian colleagues, future and current writers of these types of books. […]
Charlotte Lit in the Community: Winterfield Garden
February 8, 2022 /1 Comment/in Blog /by Charlotte Lit AdminOver the last several months, Charlotte Lit volunteers have been partnering with Winterfield Community Garden to celebrate its twelve-year anniversary with the upcoming Dozen Years of Digging Poetry Festival to be held on Saturday, May 14. Our team of volunteers has been working with Winterfield Elementary and Garinger High School students to write sustainability themed poems. Students […]
Our Favorite Reads of 2021
December 22, 2021 in Blog, Books /by Charlotte Lit AdminFrom Charlotte Lit’s faculty and staff, here’s a list of our favorite reads this year — most new, but some older favorites, too. Enjoy! Poetry Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón — Paul Reali Come Hither Honeycomb, by Erin Belieu — Lisa Zerkle Facts about the Moon, by Dorianne Laux — Kathie Collins Indigo, by […]

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