What's What
Things We Like This Week
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WHAT TO BLOG: Storied Charlotte this week features a new book titled PANDEM!C: Stories of COVID-19, which is a joint project of the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative and BOOM Charlotte.
WHAT TO POD: Charlotte Readers Podcast: Episode 231 features Allie Coker, author of The Last Resort, a novella told “in voices” — small vignettes of characters residing in a sanitarium who exist mostly in their own minds. Episode 232 features Frye Gaillard, award-winning author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960’s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost, a reconstruction and remembrance of the transcendent era of the 1960’s.
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 CHARLOTTE WRITERS CLUB
August 18, 7:00 p.m. Suffrage 101. Charlotte Writers' Club North and Main Street Books Davidson present a virtual celebration of the 101st anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford, Davidson Professor of History Emerita Dr. Sally McMillen, and documentary filmmaker Jinna Kim will be in conversation with journalist Pam Kelley about the complexities of the women's suffrage movement. Info
August 25, 2:00 p.m. Finding a Story, a virtual writing workshop with Jill McCorkle.
August 27 (and every 4th Friday), 6:45 - 9 p.m. LIVE Open Mic Night for CWC Members to read their work. Mug's Coffee, 5126 Park Road, Charlotte.
Learn more about these events at charlottewritersclub.org.
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NC WRITERS' NETWORK
Online Game Night, August 12, 7 p.m. A progressive night of entertainment! Writers will be randomly assigned to a game room and switch rooms every twenty minutes. All writers will get to play in all rooms. This is a members-only event. Register here. Games include:
- Collaborative story: Build a tale sentence by sentence over the course of the evening with tens of other writers!
- Lit-Triv Pursuit: Test your knowledge of North Carolina books and authors with a fast-paced, challenging game of trivia!
- Obit Mad Libs: Create obituaries for fake humans, working off prompts!
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FLATIRON WRITERS ROOM
Our Asheville friends have announced their terrific fall class schedule. Among the goodies: Story Beats, The Irresistible Novel Opening, and Your First 30, all with Kim Wright; Learn To Pitch Your Book, with Literary Agent Maggie Cooper; Collage Technique For Writers; Memoir Builder and Novel Generator, both with Tessa Fontaine; and Scrivener Essentials with Paul Reali (if you can't wait for Charlotte Lit's Scrivener class in the spring). Find them all here.
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FRIENDS OF CHARLOTTE LIT
19th Annual James River Writers Conference, Online, October 8-10, with pre-conference master classes on Friday, October 8. Classes, agent one-on-one meetings, and "First Pages Panel" with literary agents. Info
NEW! Wisdom Wednesdays at The Center: On Belonging, August 18, noon. Joseph "Piko" Ewoodzie, Jr., Ph.D. , Malcolm O. Partin Associate Professor of Sociology at Davidson College, in conversation with Angela Gala. There is lot of talk about the importance of belonging in our lives. But how do we go about belonging and with whom? What does it matter for our lives? Info
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OTHER HAPPENINGS
NEW! Martin Settle: Book Release: Teaching During the Jurassic: Wit and Wisdom from an Old Hippie Teacher. Mahlon Adams indoor pavilion in Freedom Park, Sunday, August 22, 2:00-4:00 p.m. RSVP, please, to masettle@uncc.edu.
NEW! Waterbean Poetry Night at the Mic returns! Wednesday, August 25, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Hosted by Leslie Rupracht and Jonathan Rice. Waterbean Coffee-Huntersville, Northcross Shopping Center, 9705 Sam Furr Road. Info
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NEW! Steel Creek-area memoir writer seeks writing buddy and critique partner. Email admin@charlottelit.org and we'll get you connected.
18th Annual Literary Competition, Arts Council of York County. Highlighting the best in short stories and poetry from across the Southeast United States. Deadline: Friday, August 27. Awards ceremony and readings: Thursday, November 4, 5:30 p.m. Info
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CHARLOTTE LIT'S MISSION is to celebrate the literary arts by educating and engaging writers and readers through classes, conversations, and community.
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Charlotte Lit is a community, open to all. Through our programming and practices, we consciously reach out to non-majority and under-represented groups and individuals.
— Charlotte Lit's Statement of Inclusivity, adopted by our Board of Directors
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