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Announcing the winners of the 2024 Applewhite Poetry Prize
Lyra Thomas joins the staff of NCLR as the first Managing Editor. They will also work in the ECU English Department as a Teaching Assistant Professor, teaching a variety of writing courses.
Announcing the winners of the Second Annual Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Competition!
Congratulations to Ashlen Renner, the 2024 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner, as well as honorable mentions for Erick Aguilar and Loss Pequeno Glazier.
We are preparing for our closet cleanout/issue inventory next week, which seems like a good time to mail out copies of back issues to NCLR… Read More »FREE BOOKS! (with purchase)
North Carolina Literary Review has just released its debut spring issue, making NCLR a quarterly journal in its 32nd year.
The North Carolina Literary Review is now the administrative partner for the prestigious North Carolina Book Awards: The Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction, and the American Association of University Women of North Carolina Young People’s Literature Award.
NCLR is extremely proud to announce the recipients of three awards for 2024 issues’ content: the John Ehle Prize, Randall Kenan Prize, and Paul Green Prize.
The first of now four issues, the Winter Online issue of North Carolina Literary Review starts the 2024 feature “North Carolina Disability Literature” with our Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize winning story “The Weight of Light” by writer and cover artist Laura Hope-Gill, along with four other stories and book reviews.