NCLR 2023

Featuring Native American Literature
of North Carolina

Best Public Intellectual Special Issue Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals

cover art by Rhiannon Skye Tafoya

NCLR 2023 Press Release [PDF]

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Pushcart Nominations

Theresa Dowell Blackinton
Barbara Campbell
Erin Miller Reid
Audrey Jennifer Smith
Nancy Swanson

Exploring North Carolina’s Native American Literature

section introduction by Kirstin L. Squint, Guest Feature Editor [PDF]

“I am delighted to present the special feature section of the 2023 North Carolina Literary Review, a historic issue, the first celebrating the state’s Indigenous voices.”

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

Postcards from Cherokee
an essay by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Mountain Biking, Bottle Trees, and Black-eyed Peas: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s Creative Nonfiction and other Writings
by Mae Miller Claxton
art by Jody Bradley

Not Either/Or, but Both:
Cherokee and Appalachian Identity in Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s Even As We Breathe
by Erica Abrams Locklear
art by Jody Bradley

“Imagining Otherwise,” Cherokee Futurism, and Riding the Trail of Tears: An Interview with Blake Hausman
by Miriam Brown Spiers and Kirstin L. Squint
art by Jody Bradley, John Henry Gloyne, and Rhiannon Skye Tafoya

Honoring Native Heritage through the New American Baroque in Gladys Cardiff’s A Bare Unpainted Table
by Jill Goad
art by Joshua Adams, Jody Bradley, and Freeman Owle

Fermenting
a poem by Mary Leauna Christensen
art by Rhiannon Skye Tafoya

Harvest Time
a poem by Tonya Holy Elk
art by Joan C. Blackwell

The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry
by Jessica Cory
art by Gene Locklear, Gloria Tara Lowery, and Raven Dial-Stanley

Coming Home: Affirming Community through Lumbee Children’s Literature
Randall Kenan Prize essay by Jane Haladay
art by Bea Brayboy, Evynn Richardson, and Raven Dial-Stanley

She Said That Saint Augustine is Worth Nothing Compared to Her Homeland: Teresa Martín and the Méndez Cancio Account of La Tama (1600)
John Ehle Prize essay by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley
art by Earl Robbins and Caroleen Sanders

Thomas Wolfe, Old Friends, and Music in Literature

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“Welcome back to Michael Parker, one of NCLR’s earliest literary finds.”

Ecstatic in the Shadow: A Conversation with Novelist Philip Lewis about the Influence of Thomas Wolfe
an interview by George Hovis

Blackwinging it in the Digital Age
creative nonfiction by Michael Parker
art by Joan Mansfield

Half an Avocado (Listen here) and a Dollop of Hollandaise
and Dinner at Friede’s Tavern (Listen here)
2022 James Applewhite Poetry Prize and honorable mention poems
by Barbara Campbell
art by Pete Sack

Uncaged
Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner by Erin Miller Reid
art by Bridget Conn

Concerto for the End of the World
a short story by Theresa Dowell Blackinton
art by Caroline Hickman Vaughan

John Darnielle’s Bestiary: A Primer
by Scott Dill
art by Bethany Salisbury