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.

Julie Funderburk

Morri Creech’s Blue Rooms

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The Arts at Queens proudly presents The English Department Reading Series and poet Morri Creech, Tuesday, November 13, 7 pm, Ketner Auditorium, Sykes Building, Queens University of Charlotte. Nov 13, poet Morri Creech reads from his just-released fourth collection, Blue Rooms. The book is eagerly anticipated; his previous, The Sleep of Reason, was a finalist for the […]

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Judy Goldman

Questions to Ask Yourself When You Write Memoir

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In 2006, to relieve his back pain, my husband had an epidural, a procedure so routine it’s given to women in childbirth. The minute the needle pushed into his spine, he was paralyzed from the waist down. People kept asking me if I was going to write about this. “Never!” I declared. I’d lived through it; […]

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Paul Reali

Tech Toolkit for Writers

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This post is an electronic version of my presentation at the NC Writers’ Network Fall Conference in Charlotte, November 2018. It includes links for many of the apps and concepts discussed. PROLOGUE: BEFORE WRITING The Backstory Before we sit down and write—on a device or on paper—there are many other things that happen, and which […]

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David E. Poston

The Secret to Being Precocious: Mary Shelly & “Frankenstein”

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For two centuries now, Frankenstein has been an easy book to hate, and Mary Shelley has been an easy target for envy. When Frankenstein was published anonymously in January 1818, readers were scandalized by Victor ransacking graves and daring to play God. Even after Mary Shelley was revealed as the author, some reviewers still maintained that only […]

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