Charlotte Center for Literary Arts

06/11/2026

We hosted the first of our free summer workshops yesterday, facilitated by Surabhi Kaushik. Surabhi led the registrants through how to question and then write about objects that hold memories.

06/04/2026

Charlotte Writers Club will honor Charlotte Lit's co-founders, Kathie Collins and Paul Reali, at their annual awards presentation tomorrow, June 5 at Southminster, 8919 Park Rd., from 6:00–9:00 p.m.

Kathie and Paul will receive the Advocate Award as Charlotte Lit celebrates ten years "of supporting writers throughout the Charlotte metropolitan region through education, workshops, mentorship, and literary programming." Congrats, Kathie and Paul!

There are still a few seats left, and CWC members can register here: https://charlottewriters39club35.wildapricot.org/event-6302374/Registration

06/04/2026

We're thrilled to be a recipient of a 2026 general operating grant from the Literary Arts Fund!

06/02/2026

Carson McCullers's debut novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," was published this week in 1940. McCullers wrote early sections of the book in Charlotte, NC, while living in a boardinghouse on East Boulevard that is now Copper, an Indian restaurant.

05/27/2026

Join us for a FREE summer workshop with Surabhi Kaushik that invites participants to explore memory, culture, and identity through meaningful objects. Just a few seats left! Register: https://charlottelit.configio.com/pd/699/objects-origins-writing-through-personal-artifacts

05/26/2026

Charlotte Lit co-founder and creative director Kathie Collins has a poem in the May/June issue of Literary Mama! https://www.facebook.com/litmama/

Read Kathie's "Scene from a Marriage":

The Sony Hi8 Handycam cassette shows how it was—me at twenty-nine, haggard but elegant in winterberry red cashmere, a towheaded two-year-old riding my hip, her three-year-old sister tugging her hand from mine. Both girlswear hand-smocked dresses, big blue bows already slippingfrom their slick tres...

05/18/2026

Lit Special: Your Week @ Charlotte Lit - https://mailchi.mp/charlottelit/18may2026

05/13/2026

Lit Weekly: Tonight! Paint the Town Purple - https://mailchi.mp/charlottelit/13may2026

05/11/2026

Lit Special: Spend Your Week with Charlotte Lit - https://mailchi.mp/charlottelit/11may2026

05/06/2026

Lit Weekly: Wrapping Up the Spring Season @ Lit - https://mailchi.mp/charlottelit/06may2026