NCLR Online Fall 2023

Native American Literature of North Carolina

cover art by Joan C. Blackwell

NCLR Online Fall 2023 Press Release

More North Carolina Indigenous Voices

section introduction by Kirstin L. Squint, Guest Feature Editor

“Though this issue highlights work by Lumbee writers and artists, NCLR always welcomes submissions from all of North Carolina’s tribal nations’ writers.”

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

Whoz Ya People?:
Musings by the Author on Her Lumbee Children’s Book
an essay by Brittany D. Hunt
illustration by Bea Brayboy

Living My Native Past in the Present
an essay by Synora Hunt Cummings

lumBEEs: Women of the Dark Water
a play excerpt, introduced by Devra Thomas

Women of the Red Earth
a poem by Tonya Holy Elk
art by Alisha Locklear Monroe

Randall Kenan, whose work is the subject of one of the new pedagogical pieces shared via this issue

Broadening Our Mission

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Help us to broaden the reach of our mission to preserve and promote the state’s rich literary culture by sharing your experiences of including North Carolina writers in your curricula.”

WANTED: Teachers Teaching North Carolina Literature
by Daniel Moreno

Teaching Local: Interdisciplinary Archival Methods for Community-Based Learning in Wilmington, NC
by Allison Harris, Sarah Gaby, Kimi Faxon Hemingway, Ann Rotchford, and Elizabeth Wellman

A History of Violence, a History of Beauty
a review by Jill Goad
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at this Blue

Moving Bodies, Healing Places
a review by J.S. Absher
Joseph Bathanti, Light at the Seams
Joseph Mills, Bodies in Motion

Phillip Lewis on the Intertextuality of The Barrowfields
introduced by George Hovis

A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past
a review by Kristina L. Knotts
David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising

Regarding Edward
a review by Terry Roberts
Elizabeth Spencer, The Edward Tales

Port of Despair
a review by Jon Kesler
Michael Keenan Gutierrez, The Swill

Where the Road Ends
a review by Barbara Bennett
Charles Frazier, The Trackers

Lee Smith Goes to Key West
a review by Sharon E. Colley
Lee Smith, Silver Alert

Naming the Unnameable and Communicating the Unknowable
a review by Christy Alexander Hallberg
Michael Gaspeny, A Postcard from the Delta
Michael Parker, I Am the Light of This World

A Wayfarer at Devil’s Elbow
a short story by Emily Alice Katz
art by Jeremy Russell

Isaac Hollifield
a poem by Richard Betz

Transmission Lines
an essay by Lockie Hunter

On the Bus with Al Maginnes
a review by Jim Clark
Al Maginnes, Fellow Survivors

There’s Always Room for New Voices

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Help us expand our mission to promote the state’s rich literary culture with your essay on or interview with a new North Carolina writer or one whose work has not received the critical attention it deserves.”