Saturday Review: “For Those Who Cannot Yet Speak” a review by Melinda Thomsen of AE Hines Any Dumb Animal (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024 Hines brings his own artistic voice to poems grieving the loss of the parental relationship…
Friday from the Archives: “The Culprit: Reflections on the Bleeding Edge” an essay by Daniel James Waters from NCLR 30 (2021).
What a gift, life is. Few are as aware of this truth on a daily basis as an operating room surgeon.
Saturday Review: “Painting A Varied Picture of Art in North Carolina” a review by Heather D. Wilson of
Liza Roberts’ Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024 Since the early days, NCLR has not only promoted the work of North Carolina writers but visual artists, too.
Friday from the Archives: “In the Company of Other Writers: An Interview with Marjorie Hudson” by Anne Anthony from NCLR 25 (2016)
One of our favorite parts of our mission of “preserving and promoting North Carolina’s rich literary culture” is getting to not only witness but be a part of a writer’s journey from the beginning.
I knew that NC had a bunch of authors: my parents went to high school with Allan Gurganus, actually, and I’d spent enough time in and around Hillsborough and Chapel Hill to have bumped into a few other well-known names. But I’ve learned why NC earned the moniker of “The Writingest State”…
Saturday Review: “Long Roads and Tall Pines” a review by Rebecca Duncan in NCLR Online Winter 2024.
Marjorie Hudson. Indigo Field. (2023)
Susan O’Dell Underwood. Genesis Road. (2022)
The North Carolina Literary Review 2024 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize will open for submissions January 15th.
Friday from the Archives: “The Land Always Calls to Its Own”: The Inglis Fletcher Papers”
by Maurice C. York from NCLR 1993. The first class of awards included such luminaries as Paul Green, Frank Borden Hanes, Hugh F. Rankin, and Inglis Fletcher.
Saturday Review: “Translating The Mysterious” a review by Robert M. West of
Michael McFee’s A Long Time to Be Gone (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024.
Friday from the Archives: “Window in Winter Light” a poem by Robert Hill from NCLR 25 (2016).
An elegant poem as winter draws in.