Who was Hannah Crafts? From NCLR to New Book
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts:
The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative, coming in September, is the book that grew out of Hecimovich’s 2007 essay.
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts:
The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative, coming in September, is the book that grew out of Hecimovich’s 2007 essay.
They cherish, as you will, their father’s fervent memorial to friendships through fishing. Writing from his heart, Frank dedicated “Evening Hatch” to his cousin Hugh G. Chatham (1921–1985). This private poem is now being shared.
Friday from the Archives: “Writing the Interior Landscape: An Interview with George Ellison” written by Kathryn Stripling Byer, from NCLR Issue 20 (2011) NCLR mourns… Read More »“A Temporary Biding Place”: Remembering George Ellison
After winning the National Book Award for his 2021 novel Hell of a Book, it’s likely safe to say Mott himself is one of those blistering voices.
“You have to travel, even if it’s only for two days a week or two days a month. You have to go away to get some contrast and a sense of who you are, where you are, and where the rest of the world is.”
In NCLR Issue 13, published in 2004, professor Christina Bucher examined the poetry Murray wrote and published. Specifically, Bucher provides a scholarly look at the protest poems found in the singular volume published in 1970,
Friday from the Archives: “The Hope of “dark-night songs”: Music and Healing in Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods” by Paula Rawlins from North Carolina Literary Review Issue 30, 2021
Cash reminisced about his time being a student of Gaines in an interview with George Hovis in our 2013 issue, released after his breakout debut novel _A Land More Kind Than Home_ received much acclaim in 2012.
Continuing with our student interns’ selections, this week we have Keegan Holder’s pick. We look back at Michael Parker’s “A Mighty Pretty Blue”, published in our 2015 issue.
Graduate student Daniel Moreno choose one of the 2018 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Honorable Mention winners: “In times as ideologically and politically charged as we find ourselves today, Angela Belcher Epps’s Sandhill: A Symphony of Souls is not just an incredibly refreshing read, but a sobering one as well.”