January GENERAL MEETING

  • January 21, 2020
  • 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Providence United Methodist Church (Rm. 104) 2810 Providence Road, Charlotte, N.C. 28211

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Mysterious Landscapes, Unpredictable Characters, Unforgettable Stories

Gaston County native, George Hovis, will discuss strategies for finding the mysterious, the surreal, and the sublime available in everyday landscapes. This session will explore how setting gives birth to characters and plots--and how, in turn, the actions of characters define a place.  

George Hovis is professor of English at SUNY Oneonta in Upstate New York but originally a native of Gaston County, North Carolina. Before becoming a writer and teacher, he worked as a process chemist at several ink factories in Charlotte. His debut novel, The Skin Artist, is published by SFK Press, and his stories and essays have appeared widely, most recently in The Carolina Quarterly, The Fourth River, and North Carolina Literary Review.  A Pushcart Prize nominee and former President of the Thomas Wolfe Society, he earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His monograph Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction was published in 2007 by University of South Carolina Press.

With a look at how he happened upon the Gothic side of Charlotte while writing his novel The Skin Artist (2019), Hovis will challenge CWC members to discover the mystery lurking in their own stories. 

Social time begins at 6:30. Catch up with fellow members as we head into the holiday season! Be sure to stick around for club business after the speaker's presentation.

Also, your RSVP would be greatly appreciated. A simple YES, NO, or MAYBE. MAYBE doesn't obligate you to attend, but the RSVP is super helpful in expediting the check-in process and for future meeting planning. 


Charlotte Writers Club  is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, P.O. Box 220954, Charlotte, NC 28222-0954

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