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.

Kathryn Schwille

Kathryn Schwille on Kevin McIlvoy’s novel “At the Gate of All Wonder”

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Samantha Peabody is a bioacoustician, an oddball recluse living in the Pisgah National Forest who runs a year-long “Sonic Adventure Program,” taking children into the woods for one week a month to teach them to hear what others ignore. She’s at the center of Kevin McIlvoy’s original new novel, At the Gate of All Wonder (Tupelo […]

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Paul Reali

Learn, Connect, Enjoy: Making the Most of the NCWN Fall Conference

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The fall conference of the North Carolina Writers’ Network returns to Charlotte this year—November 2-4 at Hilton Charlotte University—so we have tips for those who are attending (or still thinking about it). There are deadlines in here, so read on down. BEFORE YOU GO Select Workshops in Advance. One sure way to know if you’ll […]

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Lisa Zerkle

How to be a Well-Versed Citizen (Poetry World Edition)

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Charlotte writers have an extraordinary opportunity for engagement at the North Carolina Writers Network Fall Conference on November 2-4. Classes are offered in a variety of genres, including Lisa Zerkle’s class, “How to be a Well-Versed Citizen of the Poetry World.” Registration is open now. There’s someone new in town, just arrived with the poems […]

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Kathie Collins

Living at the Borders of Boldness: Making Time to Reconnect with Our Creative Selves

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Join us for Charlotte Lit’s first multi-day retreat Do you ever feel that you’re living close to the borders of madness, that state of being in which each day is progressively more packed with meetings, phone calls, and errands? Have you begun to open your in-box each morning with a sense of fear and trepidation? Have […]

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