NCLR is a Living Laboratory
by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor On this Teaching Tuesday, and also just because I am so incredibly grateful, I want to celebrate NCLR’s Art Director,… Read More »NCLR is a Living Laboratory
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Crone Reviews Orr
Saturday Review: “Bringing the Hidden into the Light” a review by Moira Crone in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (2025) novel
“Resourceful” by Robert Morgan
Friday from the Archives: Resourceful a poem by Robert Morgan by from NCLR Online 2017
Haspel reviews Ewen & Shields
Saturday Review: “Becoming the Lost Colony” a review by Donald Paul Haspel in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Charles R. Ewen and E. Thomson Shields Jr.’s book, Becoming the Lost Colony (2024
NCLR Staff Continues to Expand
Please say hello to Kristi and Rebecca, our two newest editors on the NCLR team!
Albright Creative Nonfiction Contest with Guest Judge Paul Crenshaw
The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce Paul Crenshaw 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.
Love, Loss, and the Cats We Had
As we eagerly await our new batch of interns and assistants, we share a piece from Abby, one of our students who wrapped her internship last semester. The 1996 “Cats and Their Writers” feature remains a perennial favorite.
Fackler Wins the Doris Betts Fiction Prize
Greensboro’s Evan Fackler wins this year’s Betts Prize!
Scrimgeour’s 2020 Albright Winning Essay
Inspiration from the 2020 winner of the Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest, before this year’s submission window opens!
Happy Cherokee x Appalachian New Years!
As we pass into the next calendar year, many of us have special traditions and rituals to mark this time’s passage. Claxton highlighted Clapsaddle’s Cherokee rituals in her essay from our 2023 print issue: