Listening, Learning, Letting Go
Our new Poetry Editor, Amber Flora Thomas, remembers one particular workshop participant, showing how important veteran’s stories are.
Editors’ Blog
The plural possessive is intentional. This blog will give all of NCLR’s editors a place to tell you how they contribute to NCLR’s mission to preserve and promote North Carolina’s rich literary history.
Sea, Sand, and Stories
How North Carolina beaches and books helped heal our Book Review Editor.
Summertime and the Work goes on
Editor Margaret Bauer shares but six examples of why NCLR is a round-the-calendar enterprise (and lots of recognition).
Their Own Voice, Their Own Words
2026 Guest Feature Editor Anna Froula shares more about why we’re featuring writing by and about NC veterans.
Reading NC Fiction Old and New
Fiction Editor Rebecca Bernard talks NC fiction, past, present, and future.
“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…”
From Plate to Page: Intersections of Food and Poetry
A Guest post from our friends at the North Carolina Poetry Society. Reminder: April is National Poetry Month and the submission window for both our poetry contests!
Take a chance on your work!
To submit your work is to be noticed – it can truly elevate your presence in the competitive world of literature.
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
NCLR Staff Continues to Expand
Please say hello to Kristi and Rebecca, our two newest editors on the NCLR team!