Lit UP! — Charlotte Lit’s (Mostly-Annual) Celebrations
Lit Up! is Charlotte Lit’s annual-ish celebration of the literary arts community. We’re taking a break in 2025 while our energy is focused on opening our permanent new home in the Ascend Nonprofit Center, but you can view event pix from prior years below.
About Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues, 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.
Litmosphere Release Party
We’re also celebrating the third annual issue of Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, which will be officially released in May.
The new issue includes the 2024 Lit/South Award winners, alongside the work of our contest judges: Jericho Brown (poetry), Maggie Smith (nonfiction) and Clyde Edgerton (fiction).
Lit/South Award Recognition
At the Lit Up! celebration, we’ll honor and recognize the 30+ winners of the 2024 Lit/South Awards. Lit/South Awards are open to current and past residents North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Entries are accepted from October 1 to November 1.