Reading NC Fiction Old and New
Fiction Editor Rebecca Bernard talks NC fiction, past, present, and future.
Devra Thomas
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
“Holy Ground” by Catherine Carter
Friday from the Archives: “The Influx”, “Holy Ground,” and “In the Graveyard” three poems by Catherine Carter with art by Jane Filer in NCLR 2011
“Rain” by Susan Laughter Meyers
Friday from the Archives: “Rain” the 2013 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
by Susan Laughter Meyers with art by Leah Sobsey in NCLR 2014
NCLR Editor at Friends of Joyner Library
Editor Dr. Margaret Bauer will join this year’s Friends of Joyner Library Annual Meeting.
“At the end of the day, we’re all poets”
“So as far as my own words, performing them. I think it’s bringing life to something that you’re very passionate to talk about, and that can also go up to when you’re doing written words in a book. But I think when you get a chance to perform, It is because you already have in your mind, Have a certain way you want to perform something…”