Charlotte Lit’s Blog

Welcome to Charlotte Lit’s literary arts blog. What you’ll find here: craft essays, book reviews, previews of literary arts events, and anything else that catches our attention.

Paul Reali

Announcing: Charlotte Lit’s Studio Two!

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Charlotte Lit has grown fledgling wings and is ready to fly. No, we’re not leaving our current nest—we’re adding another. We’re going out on a limb and opening a second studioon the first floor of the Midwood International & Cultural Center. We’ll use Studio Two for Charlotte Lit classes and social events. The rest of […]

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Kathie Collins

Announcing Charlotte Lit’s Beautiful Truth Initiative

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We created Charlotte Lit because we believe literature is one of the most important means for understanding ourselves, our relationships, and our world, and we wanted to find ways of sharing literary experiences of all kinds with the Charlotte community. This January, we launch the Beautiful Truth program, one of our biggest and most important […]

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Patrice Gopo

A Moment Leads to an Essay: A Journey in Five Parts

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1. My daughter and I share a plate of fried ripe plantains, a sweet taste that immediately reminds me of my childhood. “Mommy, are there bananas in plantains?” she asks. I pause. Bananas in plantains. “A plantain is a plantain,” I say. “It’s not a banana.” “But are there bananas in plantains?” she asks again. […]

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Kim Wright

On writing a novel: You don’t have to know everything to begin

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Kim Wright teaches “So You Want to Write a Novel: How to Get Started and Keep Going” at Charlotte Lit on Thursday December 13 from 6 to 9 pm. Register Writers use a lot of analogies for the sense of disorientation and fear that comes with starting a book. E.L Doctorow famously said “Writing is […]

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