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.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 18607
Charlotte, NC 28218
Physical Address:
hygge coworking Belmont
933 Louise Ave Suite 101 Charlotte, NC 28204
(No mail to this address, please)
(704) 315-2131 (voicemail)
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Charlotte Lit is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, EIN 47-4988291. Contributions and memberships are tax deductible.
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Writing Interiority
/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 […]
The Challenge is the Gift
/in Blog, Craft, Events, Inspiration, Performances, Readings, Reflections, Writing/by Charlotte LitBy Beth Murray Irania Macias Reymann and I are collaborators, kindred creative spirits, and we’ve written two plays together. In 2013, we wrote and toured a bilingual show with music for children called Mamá Goose. It was inspired by the beautiful Latino nursery rhyme anthology of the same title by Isabel Campoy and Alma […]
Make the Ordinary Sacred
/in Blog, Craft, Events, Poetry, Skill Development, Workshops, Writing/by Charlotte LitThe past two years have been interesting, as we have entered into and through a pandemic, learned new skills, and discovered things about ourselves we may not have known were there. In the midst of that time, I have found myself reading poems, articles, and stories that speak to real life and emotions. The overwhelming […]
Notebooking
/in Blog, Craft, Events, Inspiration, Uncategorized, Workshops, Writing/by Bryn ChancellorTimothy: As a novice artist, I once spent several months drawing pictures of lizards and turtles for researchers in an animal behavior lab. I loved being around all the gadgets and learning the jargon of science, but the most interesting aspect was watching everyone fill up stacks of green notebooks with scribbled facts, figures, […]