Launching in 2022: Charlotte Lit Press

Welcome to the new Charlotte Lit Press. The press’ mission is to showcase exceptional writing – poetry, fiction, and nonfiction – from current and past residents of the American South.

Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit will debut in spring 2022, featuring all honored writers from the first LIT/south Awards*, as well as contributions from our judges: Ron Rash, Jessica Jacobs, Nickole Brown, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Tara Campbell.

Pre-order the spring 2022 edition of Litmosphere here.

Our debut initiative is the annual LIT/south Awards,* is now closed.

See all our 2022 LIT/south Awards winners here.

Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit will debut in spring 2022, featuring all honored writers from the first LIT/south Awards, as well as contributions from our judges: Ron Rash, Jessica Jacobs, Nickole Brown, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Tara Campbell.

*The contest was promoted using the name “Writers/South.” Due to our discovery of a prior use in commerce for that phrase, we have renamed the contest LIT/south Awards.