The Charlotte Writers’ Club meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Providence United Methodist Church, 2810 Providence Road, in room 104.
Guests are welcome.
Upcoming meetings:
March 20
Paula Martinac, creative writing teacher at UNCC and fiction writer
Writing Diverse Characters in Fiction
What issues and problems arise when you try to write about characters whose gender, sexual orientation, class, or race differs from your own? Sometimes a writer’s best intentions – to people your fiction with characters who represent the broad spectrum of society – can trip you up. Observation and research go a long way toward making your characters more authentic. In this talk, Paula Martinac will offer tips from her own experience for creating a diverse cast of characters in your short stories and novels.
April 17th
Panel Discussion will focus on Building An Author Platform in the Digital Age and Marketing. Speakers: Authors Alice Osborn, Jan McCanless; Jessica Peterson. CWC poetry contest closes on March 20; Elizabeth Simpson Smith short story contest opens on March 20/closes May 15. Providence United Methodist Church, 2810 Providence Rd (room 104) Guests welcomed. Since 1922 Charlotte Writers’ Club, ‘Celebrating the Written Word.’
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