Charlotte Lit’s Blog
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.
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts, Inc.
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P.O. Box 18607
Charlotte, NC 28218
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Horizons
/in Blog, Conversations, Craft, Events, Exploring Literature, Inspiration, Poetry, Professional Development, Skill Development, Workshops, Writing/by Lola HaskinsOnce I wrote “The distance to the horizon is a fierce happiness,” and I believe it’s true. I had a good friend once who was a fine painter, and a series of paintings he did right before he retired from the art department inspired me so much that I wrote tiny stories about the characters […]
Rewriting Southern Traditions
/in Blog, Craft, Exploring Literature, Professional Development, Workshops/by Beth GilstrapLAKE HARTWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA By Beth Gilstrap It’s past lunch hour and Grandmother is still wearing her housecoat. Tings and sprays bounce from the stovetop. A glimmer of steam gathers on her upper lip, not sweat, mind you—not sweat. The peonies on the fabric are wide and heavy pink, like they’d fall over if […]
Five Steps Every Author Needs to Take Before Finishing a Manuscript
/in Blog, Craft, Events, Professional Development, Skill Development, Workshops, Writing/by Kathy IzardIn 2016, after six years of writing, I finally finished my first manuscript. I truly believed that writing a book was the most difficult part of becoming an author. No one told me selling a book is tougher than writing one. It is almost as if I believed, “If I write it, they will come.” […]
That Fragile Moment
/in Blog, Craft, Skill Development, Workshops, Writing/by Ashley MemoryWe are always at the beginning of things, in the fragile moment that holds the power of life….we are always at the morning of the world. I often think of this quotation by the Chinese-born French writer François Cheng, but especially in the morning. This is indeed the most “fragile moment” for me as a […]