NCLR 2010

The Land Breakers 
a novel excerpt by John Ehle 
art by Will Henry Stevens 

“wonderfully simple, yet complex”: The Mountain Novels of John Ehle 
by Terry Roberts 
art by Will Henry Stevens 

Love Affairs and Family Feuds in the Smoky Mountains 
an Ehle review by Jonathan Yardley 

Lion on the Hearth 
a novel excerpt by John Ehle 

Cry Naked, Purple Hands, Dew, and Listening to Clouds,
four poems by Robert Morgan 
art by Will Henry Stevens 

Robert Morgan’s Peripheral Vision: “the point beside the point” in The Hinterlands
by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt 
photography by Horace Kephart 

As If She Listened 
a poem by Laurence Avery 
photography by Horace Kephart 

“We’re still here”: Eddie Swimmer on Cherokee History, Life, and Outdoor Drama in the Appalachian Mountains 
an interview by Gina Caison 

The Gathering 
a poem by Joyce Compton Brown

“what I feel I was put on the planet to do”: An interview with Wayne Caldwell 
by Jerry Leath Mills 

Looking Back into the Undergrowth 
a review of Wayne Caldwell’s two novels 
by Chris Green 

Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia
by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell 
photography by Horace Kephart 

“Look here, world, look who this woman [is]”: Silas House Interviews Pamela Duncan 
introduced by Joyce Compton Brown 

​Drought Days
a poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer 
art by Noyes Capehart

Hook and Eye
a short story by Kathryn Stripling Byer 
photography by Rob Amberg 

Mountain Tunes and Tartini Violin Concertos
a review of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s new novel 
by Mae Miller Claxton 

Into a Strange Country
a review of Tony Earley’s Jim sequel 
by Tim Edwards 
art by Will Henry Stevens 

Praise Poem for Our Mountains
a poem by doris davenport 
photography by doris davenport 

Resplendent, Ingenious Forms
a review of Fred Chappell’s new poetry collection 
by John Lang 
art by Will Henry Stevens 

The Poetry of Southern Appalachia
a review by Jeffrey Franklin 
photography by Rob Bousa 

Sorry
a poem by Michael McFee 
art by Will Henry Stevens 

Controlled Burn
a short story by Charles Dodd White 
photography by Rob Amberg 

A Cozy Conspiracy
a review of Kenneth Butcher’s The Middle of the Air 
by F. Brett Cox 
photography by Rob Amberg 

Breaking Line
creative nonfiction by Christopher Wrenn 
photography by Rob Amberg 

Blind Faith
the 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story 
by David McGuirt 
photography by John Rosenthal and Rob Amberg

2009 R. Hunt Parker Award Winner Bland Simpson Presents New Hardee-Rives Dramatic Arts Award

In a Green Shade and Sunset Limited
two poems by Lyn Lifshin 
art by Romare Bearden 

Telling Stories of Slavery
a review by David A. Davis

Two North Carolina Reconstruction Novels 
a review by Susan Prothro Wright 
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Other Times and Places and Down Home 
a review of recent science fiction by North Carolina authors 
by Warren Rochelle

Blossoming Poplars, Unpublished Interview, Repairing the Farmhouse, The Home Place, and Along the Ridge
five poems by James Applewhite 
art by Paul Hartley 

Platform
a 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition finalist 
by Steve Mitchell 
Hear an excerpt here. ?
art by Richard Garrison 

Summer Haze
a poem by Daniel Saalfeld 
art by David Terry 

Waiting for Azrael
a 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition finalist 
by Melanie Raskin 
Hear an excerpt here. ?
art by Kelly L. Adams 

Water Signs
a poem by Sandra Ann Winters 
art by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick 

On Being Exposed: Body as Witness in Gail Godwin’s The Perfectionists
an essay by Renae R. Applegate House

Bird Lore and Sidewalk Pennies 
two poems by Lynda Self 
art by Tina Bromberg 

Three Women Writers Share Journeys of Achievement
a review by Rebecca L. Godwin 
illustration by Daniel Wallace 

Redneck Ballerina, A Case for The Rest of Us
creative nonfiction by Megan Mayhew Bergman 
photography by Charles S. Killebrew 

The Buck and In the Golden Valley
two poems by Henry Kearney, IV 
art by David Terry 

Wells Tower: An “engaged life”
an interview by Matthew Martin

Images of Childhood
a review of two poetry collections 
by Felicia Mitchell with Lorraine Hale Robinson

Wanda Canada’s Coastal Crimes
an interview by Art Taylor 
photography by Doug Kazantzis​