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.

Marline Casseus

An invitation from Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s Community Read

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By Marline L. Casseus, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library This year’s Community Read with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is bigger, bolder and better than ever before. There are important topics to discuss, many partners hosting events and discussions, and plenty of ways for readers of all ages to get involved. Best of all, the Library is bringing award-winning and New […]

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Paul Reali

We’re throwing a(nother) party!

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If you know Charlotte Lit at all, you probably know we like to throw a party. Every year at this time, we do something interesting, party-wise. Four years ago we made our debut with a 100-person event at The Light Factory featuring poet Linda Pastan. A year later, in February 2017, we celebrated our first birthday […]

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Gilda Syverson

Staying in the Flow: Advice for Memoir Writers and Others

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Gilda Morina Syverson will lead a workshop on memoir, “Traveling Home, Again:  Memoir’s Enlightening Path” at Charlotte Lit on Thursday, February 21st, from 6 to 9 p.m. Register Only two years. That’s what I told myself when I first began to teach memoir writing at Queens University. I would do it for two years. My […]

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Andy Thomason

Research First, Then Write?

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Editor’s note: We occasionally take a look at the standard bits of advice given to writers. This week, guest blogger Andy Thomason takes on the notion of research first, then write. When I told one of the editors at my office that I was writing a book, he offered what I thought was a strange piece […]

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