SEPTEMBER GENERAL MEETING VIA ZOOM

  • September 21, 2021
  • 6:30 PM
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291815127?pwd=Qi9iVy8wMFB4TjlFYzFEL3FOMWYxZz09

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We hope you enjoyed a terrific summer! Please join us for our first meeting of the year. This is going to be an exciting, event-filled year - in 2022, Charlotte Writers Club will celebrate 100 years of supporting local writers and promoting their development though education, recognition, and community. We couldn't do anything without our wonderful members and partners!

The meeting will be held via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291815127?pwd=Qi9iVy8wMFB4TjlFYzFEL3FOMWYxZz09

Meeting ID: 832 9181 5127
Passcode: 002472

We will begin at 6:30 with a half hour of reconnecting with members; business will commence at 7:00 p.m. as our president calls us to order with a welcome and brief announcements. Charlie Lovett, celebrated writer and antiquarian book dealer, will highlight the evening with an insightful discussion on the novel, truly from beginning to end. Club business and member announcements will follow Charlie's presentation (if you have something to share, please use the Zoom hand icon).

Charlie Lovett

 

Where do we start a novel (or any work of art) and how do we know when it is over? How does the beginning of a novel and the end relate to one another? How can there be connections between the beginning and end that lead to a satisfying experience for the reader? Join us as Winston-Salem novelist, author of the Bookman's Tale and a Davidson graduate, explores these questions and shares his techniques, experiences, pitfalls, and possibilities for the beginnings and ends of works of fiction.

About Charlie Lovett

In 1984, not long after he graduated from Davidson College, Charlie Lovett went into business as an antiquarian book dealer and began collecting books and artifacts related to Lewis Carroll about whom he has written and edited no fewer than nine books. He earned an MFA from Vermont College in 1997 and for eleven years served as Writer-in-Residence at the Summit School in Winston-Salem where he wrote plays for children, nineteen of which have been published. His plays have been seen in over 5,000 productions worldwide.

His breakthrough as a novelist came with The Bookman’s Tale (2013), the story of an antiquarian book dealer struggling to determine the authenticity of annotations, perhaps by Shakespeare, in a sixteenth century book that might prove once and for all that the man from Stratford wrote the plays. His ensuing three novels—First Impressions (2014), The Lost Book of the Grail (2017), and Escaping Dreamland (2020)—were all connected in some way to his passion for rare books and history. His thriller The Enigma Effect (tentative title) will be published in 2022 as will the first book of a middle grade trilogy, The Book of the Seven Spells.

Lovett lives in Winston-Salem but spends several months each year at his cottage in Kingham, Oxfordshire and travels extensively in England.

We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!


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