The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR), produced at East Carolina University, publishes interviews and literary criticism about North Carolina writers and high-quality poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction by North Carolina writers or set in North Carolina. Our definition of a North Carolina writer is anyone who currently lives in North Carolina, has lived in North Carolina, or uses North Carolina as subject matter.
A cross between a scholarly journal and a literary magazine, NCLR has won numerous awards and citations, including six from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals: the Best New Journal award in 1994, the Best Journal Design award in 1999 and 2010, the Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement in 2007, the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement in 2014, and Best Public Intellectual Special Issue in 2023.
Latest News
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Mabrey Wins 2024 Jaki Shelton Green Performance Prize
Announcing the winners of the Second Annual Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Competition!
Current Call for Submissions
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2025: NC LGBTQ+ Literature
Randall Kenan. Bertha Harris. David Sedaris. Allan Gurganus. Jim Grimsley. These are just a handful of North Carolina authors who write openly and passionately about queer identities, issues, and joy. Whether explored through characters, journalism, memoir, poetry, drama, or other genres, these writers – along with other emerging or overlooked NC artists we hope to…
Upcoming Events
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Bring North Carolina Literary History To Your Event!
Bring NCLR to your literary festival or writers symposium today!
From the Archives
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Ground(ed) in Purpose: Ron Rash in Appalachia
Friday from the Archives: “Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia” by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell from NCLR 19 (2010)
Book Reviews
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Coby reviews Ballingrud
Saturday Review: “Adventures, Entrepeneurs, and Scoundrels” a review by Jim Coby in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Nathan Ballingrud’s novel The Strange (2023)
Editors’ Blog
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Monday Memories: NCLR Students Past and Present
Prepping for this interview, I had perused my bookshelves thinking, Now which of these Southern writers are from North Carolina? Then I grabbed a slim volume by Fred Chappell to read on the plane…
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