Each Friday, NCLR will post content from past issues. All past issues are currently available for purchase. Or check your library’s digital collections to read the full piece.
Friday from the Archives: “Everyone Is Some Kind of Animal” a short story by Daniel Wallace
with art by Bob Trotman in NCLR 2013
The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame announced this biennial cohort of writers last week.
Friday from the Archives: “Alligator Holes Down along about Old Dock” a poem by A.R. Ammons in NCLR 1993
We hope to see everyone at the R.A. Fountain General Store on 2/14….
Friday from the Archives: “Measured” an essay by Susan Wilson in NCLR Online 2021
Our 2021 special feature was “Writing Towards Healing.”
Friday from the Archives: “Out of all places, East Carolina”: Talking with NCLR’s Founding Editor, Alex Albright an interview by Peter Makuck in NCLR 2002
Our annual Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest is now open!
Friday from the Archives: “A Moment on Hooper Lane: How We See, How We Are Seen” an essay by Bland Simpson in NCLR 2018
“Would
that we could greet each and every one of these millions of newcomers, whether they are born here or come from away, like the original native Americans, the first peoples twelve millennia ago.”
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000
This week’s Friday from the Archives comes from the editor and from her first issue as editor.
Friday from the Archives: “Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” a poem by Kathleen Halme
with art by Claude Howell in NCLR 1998
As we head into the longest night of the year, the Solstice, and winter begins, we think of the return of the light, and the warmth of the summer sun.
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000
Friday from the Archives: “Ruins of Time” a short story by Jerry Leath Mills from NCLR 17 (2008)
By Josie Klacker, Intern
Mills shared a memory for our 2008 “North Carolina Humor: The Old Mirth State” issue…