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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDuring her presentation, Bay mentioned that I have been involved in Charlotte\u2019s writing community for over 40 years, but that\u2019s not nearly as long as the history of the Charlotte Writers Club. Adelia Kimball founded the Charlotte Writers Club in 1922, which was a golden year in literary circles. James Joyce\u2019s Ulysses <\/em>and T. S. Eliot\u2019s The Waste Land <\/em>both came out in 1922. Two classic works of children\u2019s literature\u2014The Velveteen Rabbit <\/em>by Margert Williams and Doctor Doolittle<\/em> by Hugh Lofting\u2014also appeared in print in 1922. The Harlem Renaissance was in full swing in 1922, which was when Harcourt, Brace and Company published Claude McKay\u2019s poetry collection titled Harlem Shadows<\/em>. William Faulkner\u2019s The Great Gatsby <\/em>didn\u2019t come out until 1925, but the novel is set in the summer of 1922. Given the importance of 1922 in the history of literature, it was an auspicious year for Adelia Kimball to start a club for Charlotte\u2019s burgeoning community of writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout its long history, the Charlotte Writers Club has fostered a sense of community among its members. Part of this sense of community is tied to place. The club has always celebrated its connections to Charlotte. It has frequently partnered with other Charlotte organizations, such as the public library. In fact, the club\u2019s first meetings took place in what was then called the Carnegie Library, now known as the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The club\u2019s commitment to community transcends geography.\u00a0\u00a0From its very beginnings, the club has provided its members with a supportive environment to share drafts of stories, poems and essays.\u00a0\u00a0Through its sponsorship of contests, the club has created opportunities for members celebrate each other\u2019s creative endeavors.\u00a0\u00a0By bringing in accomplished writers as speakers and workshop leaders, the club has facilitated the sharing of writing and publishing tips, which members can use in order to achieve their own successes as writers.\u00a0\u00a0For over a century, the Charlotte Writers Club has shown how writers can work together to build a community and in the process, support and promote each other.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Bay presented me with their Advocate Award, she handed me a plaque that includes the following phrase: \u201cFor supporting, uplifting, and advocating for writers and the literary arts.\u201d Well, as I see it, these words also apply to Adelia Kimball and all of the other people who have made the Charlotte Writers Club such a Storied Charlotte institution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago I received an unexpected email message from Barbara (Bay) Yager, the President of the Charlotte Writers Club, informing me that I had been \u201cselected to receive an award from the Charlotte Writers Club\u201d in recognition of my \u201ccontributions to both our organization and the greater literary community.\u201d She asked me if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storied-charlotte","tag-charlotte-writers-club"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}