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.

Kathie Collins

A Reflection on Color in Patrice Gopo’s “All the Colors We Will See”

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Patrice Gopo’s All the Colors We Will See was released by Thomas Nelson this week. The book was named a Barnes & Noble Fall 2018 Discover Great New Writers selection. Patrice will read from and discuss the book at Park Road Books at 7 pm this Thursday. In one of the essays in her new collection All the […]

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Paul Reali

Just Put On the Mouse Ears, Already: Wildacres Writing Workshop

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Special thanks to the Arts and Science Council, which awarded me a Regional Artist Project Grant to attend the Wildacres Writing Workshop this year. The warnings go something like this: “You’re thinking about Wildacres? It’s amazing, but you need to know about the Gong Show.” For more than 30 summers, writer and writing enthusiast Judi […]

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Charlotte Lit Admin

The Writer’s Hustle

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Editor’s note: The following piece began as a Facebook post written by novelist Wiley Cash (The Last Ballad and others). Since it first appeared on June 29, it’s been shared 53 times and is now posted on Cash’s website. We asked to reprint the post here because it’s an important and thoughtful consideration on what […]

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Patrice Gopo

The Collegeville Institute: A Place to Belong

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On the first evening of a workshop entitled, “Exploring Identity and (Dis)belonging through the Personal Essay” at the Collegeville Institute, we gather around a rectangle formed from four long tables pushed together. We are primarily people of color. We are strangers to one another. We are not sure what the days ahead will hold. Enuma […]

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