New NC Poet Wins 2025 Green Performance Poetry Contest
Established poet new to NC takes the 2025 Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize
Devra Thomas
The Jargon Society Lives On
Friday from the Archives: “A Snowflake Orchard and What I Found There: An Informal History of the Jargon Society” by Jeffery Beam in NCLR 1997
Geography at Core of Understanding
Friday from the Archives: “Knowing Your Place: Tony Earley’s Human Geography”
by Jimmy Dean Smith in NCLR 2020
CK12 & NCLR Partner to Teach NC Lit
NCLR will facilitate a workshop on Teaching NC Lit for CK12!
Reading NC Fiction Old and New
Fiction Editor Rebecca Bernard talks NC fiction, past, present, and future.
2026: Saluting Veterans’ Writing
This special feature section of NCLR seeks to bridge the gap between military personnel and civilians by celebrating veteran writers and their impacts on literary and cultural studies.
“The Fence and The Bridge”
Friday from the Archives: “Writing the Great War: Ron Rash and Terry Roberts Discuss World War I, the North Carolina German Internment Camp, and the Historical Novel” an interview by Zackary Vernon in NCLR 2014
Susan Wilson of Clemmons Wins the ’25 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Congratulations to Susan Wilson, our Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner for 2025, and the runners up and other finalists!
Cold Springs, NC, 2163
Friday from the Archives: “Interviews in Cold Springs, North Carolina” a story by Warren Rochelle illustrated by Lali in NCLR 2001
Revisiting “Dream Boy” on Reprint
Friday from the Archives: “Dream Boy: Jim Grimsley’s Gothic Gospel” by Ed Madden with photography by W. Cameron Dennis and Mary Thiessen in NCLR 2000