CHARLOTTE WRITERS CLUB - Final Meeting of the Season!

  • May 17, 2022
  • 6:30 PM
  • Tyvola Senior Center, 2225 Tyvola Road, Charlotte

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Please join us for our May meeting that kicks off Centennial Week and our 100th Anniversary Gala!


We're springing forward - the formal meeting will start at 6:30 p.m.

With so much to do and wrap up for the season, we are skipping social time and getting right to it! Award-winning memoirist, Judy Goldman, will headline the evening with her presentation, "Conquering Self-Doubt When You Sit Down to Write." We will celebrate her new memoir, our writing contests winners (students and adults) who will read from their creative work, the recipients of CWC Founders Awards, and the wrap of another great year!

Oh, and there will be cake!!

100th birthday cake Stock Photo by ©RuthBlack 64989501


Please join us in-person at the Tyvola Senior Center, 2225 Tyvola Road

 

Not able to attend in-person? Please join us via Zoom with this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83291815127?pwd=Qi9iVy8wMFB4TjlFYzFEL3FOMWYxZz09



 Judy Goldman

Conquering Self-Doubt When You Sit Down to Write

Whether you’re writing memoir or essays, fiction or poetry—whether you’re a beginning writer or have been writing for years—you’ve probably experienced, at some point, almost debilitating doubts. Suddenly, you think, “I’m just not a writer. I can’t do it.” Though she has been writing for 55 years and has seven books to her credit, Judy Goldman knows that feeling. What she has discovered is that self-doubt is a sign your work is taking on its own life, becoming bigger than what you had imagined. Judy will talk about the tricks she has learned to turn self-doubt into writing success. She’ll talk about pushing on, knowing you can’t actually get everything right. You do your work in the hopes of coming close. She’ll explain how to discover what makes your writing different from anything else you’ve ever read, and how to write the story only you can write.
 

Judy Goldman is the author of seven books – three memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry. Her new memoir, Child, will be published Mother’s Day, 2022. Her most recent book, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap (published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) was named one of the best books of 2019 by Real Simple magazine. Together also received a starred review from Library Journal. Her first memoir, Losing My Sister, was a finalist for both SIBA’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review’s Memoir of the Year. She received the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, as well as the three prizes awarded for a poetry book by a North Carolinian and Silverfish Review Press’s Gerald Cable Poetry Prize. She received the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” the Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award from Central Piedmont Community College, and the Beverly D. Clark Author Award from Queens University. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Washington Post, USA Today, Charlotte Observer, Real Simple, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She and her husband have lived in Charlotte for 54 years.


The most important detail of Judy’s writing life?

The very first prize she won was the Charlotte Writers Club poetry contest.


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We look forward to sharing cake with you!


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

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