Welcome CWC Members! Here are the upcoming events featured in the CWC newsletter that you can register for today.
Poetry Nightclub with Erin Belieu
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: Starlight on 22nd, NoDa
Join Charlotte Lit and poet Erin Belieu for the second installment in our new Poetry Nightclub series, an evening performance that goes beyond traditional reading and book signing events. Imagine soft lighting, café tables, live music, adult beverages, including a specialty cocktail. Your first drink is on us!
Erin Belieu is the author of five poetry collections, all from Copper Canyon Press, including 2021’s Come-Hither Honeycomb. A Rona Jaffe Fellow and recent winner of the AWP George Garett prize, her poems have appeared in places such as The New Yorker, Poetry, Slate, Atlantic Monthly and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, and have been selected for multiple appearances in the Best American Poetry anthology series. Born and raised in Omaha, NE, Belieu now lives in Houston, where she teaches in the University of Houston’s MFA/Ph.D. creative writing program.
FREE! Author Reading with Abigail DeWitt
Date: Friday, February 17, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Charlotte Lit @ hygge Belmont
Abigail DeWitt is the author of three novels: Lili, Dogs, and News of Our Loved Ones. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Narrative, LitHub, Five Points, Witness, Alaska Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has been cited in Best American Short Stories and has received grants and fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Tyrone Guthrie Center, the McColl Center for the Arts, and the Michener Society. She received a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She has taught creative writing, composition, and French at various colleges and universities, including Boston University, Lenoir-Rhyne College, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Harvard University Summer School, and Appalachian State University.
Screenwriting Workshop: Going Deeper into Script Writing
Date: Three Tuesdays: February 7, 14, 21
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Virtual via Zoom
This class is a crash course in the basics of screenwriting: the differences between writing for film and television, using software to help with script formatting, the power and pitfalls of visual storytelling and how to harness it to your advantage, the importance of structure and how to build momentum within and between scenes, and the impact of practical considerations like budget and audience on the creative process. We’ll also review the legitimacy of avenues for getting your script out there, including contests, screenwriting websites, and querying managers, and suggest approaches for pitching your work. The course will serve writers who are interested in learning how to put stories on screen, regardless of their experience with other forms of writing.
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Chen Chen
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: Starlight on 22nd, NoDa
Chen Chen’s second book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in September 2022. His debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.
