From The Archives

Friday from the Archives: read a taste of the premiere Alex Albright CNF Prize-winning essay by Zackary Vernon , published in 2016. Then stay tuned!… Read More »Premiere Albright Prize Winner

Friday from the Archives: Read Barbara Bennett’s essay on teaching Jill McCorkle’s novel Ferris Beach to high school students. Then think about “Teaching NC Literature.”

For this Friday from the archives, we remember Richard Krawiec’s moving, provocative (and particularly timely this week) play “Lovers,” published in NCLR 2009 (with art… Read More »A Play by Richard Krawiec

Since tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day, our Friday from the Archives features Cynthia Lewis’s 2016 essay about book clubs, which features bookstores. Read the first… Read More »Upcoming Independent Bookstore Day!

Friday from the Archives with NCLR Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin in town, we’re giving away 2007 issues featuring an interview with him. Back issues can… Read More »What Poetry Can Do

Friday from the Archives on this Easter weekend: a 2005 poem by Lorrin Willis, with art by David Charles Terry, entitled Easter.

Read this excerpt from John Ehle’s The Landbreakers (with art by Will Henry Stevens); then read an exploration of John Ehle’s Mountain Novels by Terry Roberts. Consider… Read More »An Excerpt from John Ehle’s The Landbreakers

On this April Fool’s Friday from the Archives, check out the contents of the “Mirth Carolina Laugh Tracks,” a dual CD set that went out… Read More »April’s Fools!

Friday From the Archives: Read William Howard Rough’s introduction to his 1960 interview with Paul Green on “A Theater of the People”; then read the… Read More »William Howard Rough’s Interview with Paul Green

Friday from the Archives: “Not since Wilma Dykeman’s Tall Woman (1962) has a Southern Appalachian novelist focused with such intensity on the often unrecognized strength… Read More »The Unrecognized Strength of Appalachian Women