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From The Archives

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.

An “Educational Experiment” Jolted By War

Friday from the Archives: “Getting By and Through the ’40s” by I.S. Nakata in NCLR 2023
Black Mountain College, which we featured in our 1995 issue, had its heyday during the 1940’s. World War II impacted the college …

Transparency in Teaching How to Write

Friday from the Archives: “an artist’s artist, y’all: weird, unique, and oh so smart and talented”: An Interview with Leah Hampton by Christy Alexander Hallberg with photography by Bayard Wootten in NCLR 2022

Have you already submitted your original unpublished short fiction story for this year’s Doris Betts Fiction Prize Contest?

Our Changing Region

Friday from the Archives: “The Way It Was, the Way It Still Is: Documenting My Own Life in a Tenant Farmer’s Family” essay by Linda Flowers from NCLR 1 (1992)

By Vicki Mass, Intern

First Lady of NC Horror, Frances Wellman

Friday from the Archives: “Frances Garfield: A Teller of Horror Tales but Not for Women Only” by Bertie E. Fearing in NCLR 1993

By Samantha Higgins, Intern

Our 1993 issue contains a section dedicated to Manly Wade Wellman, including an interview with his wife

The Story They Tell

Friday from the Archives: “The Dead Ain’t Helpless” by Louise Anderson in NCLR 1993

As ECU’s yearly Ghost Walk event approaches, let’s revisit “The Dead Ain’t Helpless,” one of Louise Anderson’s folklore stories…

Family Grievance

“They told Lily, ‘Stella and Kate were born from our bodies. You were born from our hearts.'”