Mountain Medicine: Music and Healing in Frazier’s Nightwoods
Friday from the Archives: “The Hope of “dark-night songs”: Music and Healing in Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods” by Paula Rawlins from North Carolina Literary Review Issue 30, 2021
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“A Right of Passage” : Entzminger Reviews Miranda
Entzminger astutely points out that “One of the best aspects of the novel is this strong, believable, and fully developed female narrator, Abby Lovett, who is not seeking, nor does she find, a romantic partner.” How refreshing in today’s entertainment.
Writerly Influences: Cash on Gaines
Cash reminisced about his time being a student of Gaines in an interview with George Hovis in our 2013 issue, released after his breakout debut novel _A Land More Kind Than Home_ received much acclaim in 2012.
2022 Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner Erin Miller Reid with “Uncaged”
Erin Miller Reid is the winner of the 2022 Doris Betts Fiction Prize for her story “Uncaged.”
“Fading Into Reflection”: Colley Reviews Brown
Colley also points out that “By utilizing a Southern setting reminiscent of many American spaces, the novel somewhat radically stresses the similarities rather than the differences between the South and a broader culture.” In so doing, the book becomes accessible to everyone.
Flashbacks: In Fiction and To ’15
Continuing with our student interns’ selections, this week we have Keegan Holder’s pick. We look back at Michael Parker’s “A Mighty Pretty Blue”, published in our 2015 issue.
’22 Albright Prize Winner and Finalists Reading on Feb 9
’22 Albright creative nonfiction winner and finalists will read at Scuppernong Books on Feb 9.
A Few Reasons Why We “Love Our Job”
2022 was busy—as most years are for the NCLR staff. The start of a new year seems like a good time to look back on the old year and realize all that we accomplished in 2022, then look forward to what’s ahead in 2023.
Greensboro Author James Tate Hill Will Be Creative Nonfiction Competition Judge
The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce James Tate Hill as the judge for this year’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Competition. The annual prize is awarded to the best short creative nonfiction story by a North Carolina writer or set in North Carolina.
“Living On Shifting Ground”: Miller reviews Turner-Yamamoto
Miller posits “[the] connections emphasize the Faulknerian theme of Southern literature that the past is never fully gone. As past decisions and tragedies continue to reverberate, the very landscape contains a history of trauma.”