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Author: Charlotte Hamrick

Charlotte Hamrick’s creative writing and photographs have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Her debut prose chapbook, Offset Melodies, is included in Grieving Hope (ELJ Editions), a collection of five microchaps. She is Managing Editor for Reckon Review.
Creative Nonfiction5 Comments

A New Litmag!

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

My writer-friend Jamy Bond and I have started a new online litmag! We are so excited to begin this new venture together and I want to invite my Zouxzoux readers to visit and subscribe. SugarSugarSalt will focus on previously published … Continue reading A New Litmag!

Magnetic Poetry, Poetry7 Comments

Scent of Rain

August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

Scent of Rain Hot breath haunts, lingers in liquid air. Old magic explores the night rhythm of time. Salt of desire, how we growl & devour life’s dirt & dazzle, laugh in the eyes of the sacred. Continue reading Scent of Rain

About Writing, CNF, Creative Nonfiction, Favorite Nonfiction4 Comments

Favorite Creative Nonfiction 2nd Quarter

July 26, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

I’ve had this post in my drafts for quite a while thinking I would write up an introduction as I normally do. But life kept getting in the way and my head has been elsewhere lately. As always, these Creative … Continue reading Favorite Creative Nonfiction 2nd Quarter

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extravagant and wild

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. … Continue reading extravagant and wild

About Writing, interviews, Microfiction, Publications 20224 Comments

3 Quick Things

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

I was fortunate to be chosen for the Micro Madness 2022 long list recently and my video reading is up today on the Flash Frontier YouTube channel. My piece is titled “Wild Horses” – yep, after the song. Big thanks … Continue reading 3 Quick Things

Favorite Poetry, Poetry12 Comments

Talking Poetry & 2nd Quarter Favs

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

For me, Poetry is like the weather. It comes in a lightning strike, a fully formed flash, or like a hurricane gathering strength and building as it grows. I can’t decide to write a poem. It decides to allow me … Continue reading Talking Poetry & 2nd Quarter Favs

Family, My Poetry5 Comments

In Memory

June 14, 2022July 20, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

Dirt Cheap QueenIt was the hunt that you loved,your laser blue eyes scopingthe goods as you entered the store, linens beckoninglike flags in the Sun’s stare,sheets with innumerable thread counts,only the softest would do. You’d dig through the pile, mining … Continue reading In Memory

dVerse Poets Pub, Eckphrastic Poetry, My Poetry15 Comments

As glasses were raised

June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

we stole away from the table – first you, then me, so as not to invite titters and whispers.The sun was a golden coin melting into smoke kissed mountains, tossing pink confetti into the sky.The evening song of cicadas rose … Continue reading As glasses were raised

My Poetry1 Comment

Riptide

June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

Dream fluff shadows a thousandskin lathered summers,whispering sea spray, waxing ebb shine,an urge of fingers in hairand salt on tongues.Oh summer, bare your dreamson the wind,Crush on me again With partial help from The Oracle. Continue reading Riptide

Magnetic Poetry, My Poetry10 Comments

Night Bloom

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 Charlotte Hamrick

Night BloomOur river path rustleswith ancient songDusk a blanket of fertile airTendriled moss thick and brightcovers a moist moon &we are a wild Eden seeding roses in rock Words chosen from the Nature Magnetic Poetry Kit. Continue reading Night Bloom

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