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1992
Chappell, Fred, “The Indivisible Presence of Randall Jarrell”, essay
Flowers, Linda, “The Way It Was, the Way It Still Is: Documenting My Own Life in a Tenant Farmer’s Family”, essay
Hudson, Marjorie, “Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, Writer”, essay
Lanier, Gene D., “Banned Anything Good Lately?”, essay
Lembke, Janet, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Grackle”, poetry
Sparrow, W. Keats, “Early North Carolina Literature: A Syllabus For Serious Readers”, essay
Vickers, Jim, “A Week or 3 Days in Chapel Hill: Faulkner, Contempo, and Their Contemporaries”, essay
Wilentz, Gay, “Authenticating Experience: North Carolina Slave Narratives and the Politics of Place” essay
1993
Ammons, A.R., “Alligator Holes Down along about Old Dock”, poetry
Anderson, Louise, “The Dead Ain’t Helpless”, short story
B’Rácz, Emöke, “The Magic of a Reading Place of My Own,” essay
Fearing, Bertie E., “Frances Garfield: A Teller of Horror Tales but Not for Women Only”, interview
Gantt, Patricia, “Omar ibn Sayid: An Arabic Scholar/Slave in Nineteenth-Century Carolina”, essay
Hill, Michael, “State Highway Historic Markers: Public Commemoration and Literary History”, essay
Parker, Michael, “I Know 8000 Lunatics: Confessions of an Apple Stealing SOB“, essay
Smith, Stephen, “The Most Personal of Teachers: A Student Remembers,” essay
York, Maurice C., “The Land Always Calls to Its Own”: The Inglis Fletcher Papers”, essay
1994
Fearing, Bertie E., Two poems accompanying “Weymouth: A Writer’s Place—From Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe”, essay/poetry
Pettis, Joyce, “The Marrow of Tradition Charles Chesnutt’s Novel of the South”, essay
Steelman, Bennet L., “Black, White and Gray: The Wilmington Riot in Fact and Legend”, essay
Taylor, Art, “Sister-in-Crime: An Interview with Margaret Maron”
1995
Alexander, Christy, “Paul Metcalf: An Introduction”, essay
Hyde, Gene, “1994 Poetry Slams National Championships”, essay
1996
Anderson, Nina L., “City Lights Bookstore and Cafe,” essay
Daniels, Elizabeth, “Cats Are Sneaky That Way or Cats’ll Get Under Your Feet?“, essay
Student Poetry, “a portion of “Cherokee Voices”, poetry
Flowers, Linda, “Coffee to Go”, essay
Makuck Peter, “Catlight”, poem
Pierce, Constance, “Learning to Write: Feline by Feline”, essay
1997
Beam, Jeffery, “A Snowflake Orchard and What I Found There: An Informal History of the Jargon Society”, essay
Dawson, Fielding, “What I Learned at Black Mountain – More!”, essay
Dessen, Sarah, “Weird Margaret”, short story
McCorkle, Jill, “The Last Sleep”, short story
1998
Halme, Kathleen, “Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean”, poetry
Jones, Lu Ann, “Talking in Class: The Stories of North Carolina Teachers”, essay
Smith, Lee, “Blazing Star”, short story
Sullivan, Sally, “Citizens Who Observe: A Conversation with Fred Chappell”, interview
1999
Davis, Christopher, “Political Sonata”, poetry
Hudson, Marjorie, “Local and National Efforts to Honor George Moses Horton”, essay
McClanahan, Rebecca, “Trains”, essay
Wilson, Mary Ann, “We Were Whole Again: Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon”, essay
2000
Dean, Debra Kang, “Customs” and “Heart Sutra #6,” poetry
Madden, Ed, “Dream Boy: Jim Grimsley’s Gothic Gospel”, essay
Powell, Tamara, “Hearing Me Into Speech: Lesbian Feminist Publishing in North Carolina” by Wynn Cherry and “Look What Happened Here: North Carolina’s Feminary Collective”, essay
Rankin, Richard, “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper”, essay
Squire, Walter, “Resisting Being Written Out of History: Women Activists and Recorders of the 1929 Gastonia Strike”, essay
2001
Church, Kim, “Want Ads”, short story
Gilster, Paul A., “Faces in Stained Glass”, short story
Rochelle, Warren, “Interviews in Cold Springs, North Carolina”, short story
Smith, Martin K., “How Does Your Garden Grieve?”, short story
Twining, Matthe, “Blue Moon”, short story
West, Mark I., “Martin Gardner: North Carolina’s Historian of Oz and Annotator of Alice,”, essay
2002
Chatham, James O., “Radio Writers: a review of two NPR collections,” essay
Makuck, Peter, “Out of All Places: Talking with NCLR’s Founding Editor, Alex Albright”, interview
Meyers, Susan Laughter, “Morning Prayer”, poetry
Ogilvie, Mark, “You Sang me a song, and I heard”: The Song Behind a Wellman Legend”, essay
Perkins, Dolen, “‘White Heat’ in Wilmington: The Dialogue Between Journalism and Literature in The Marrow of Tradition”, essay
Shires, Nancy, “The Snow L. and B.W.C. Roberts Collection of North Carolina Fiction,” by Nancy Shires, essay
Thompson, Jr., Charles D., “Who is my Neighbor?: Parables of Survival from the Floyd Flood of 1999,” essay
Wheatley, Lois Carol, “Women Writers of Black Mountain College”, essay
2003
Applewhite, James, “Christmas by the River”, poetry
Branan, Tonita S., “Son of a Gun, Sky-high: Clyde Edgerton on Flying”, interview
Hardy, Melissa, “Wedding Belles” fiction by Melissa Hardy, short story
Pottier, Celeste, “Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Atkinson, Former ECU Student”, essay
Stott, William, ““living deeper into matter”: Robert Frost’s “Kitty Hawk” and the Creation of Nature”, essay
Spencer, Elizabeth, “Look Homeward, Angel: Of Ghosts, Angels, and Lostness”, essay
2004
Anton, Meredith, “On the Hinge”, essay
Bucher, Christina, Pauli Murray: A Case for the Poetry”, essay
McKinney, Karen, “There’s Always A Story To Tell: Creating Tradition on the Qualla Boundary”, essay
Monteith, Sharon and Yousaf, Nahem, ““I was Pearl and my last name was Harbor”: Monique Thuy-Dong Truong’s “Kelly” and Ethnic Southern Memory,” essay
Mullins, Maryscot, “Family Reunions of Words”, essay
Obadike, Mendi Lewis, “Waiting for America” and “Isaac in Durham”, poetry
Shapiro, Alan, “Actaeon and Diana”, poetry
Shields, E. Thomson, “North Carolina’s Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore”, essay
Siegel, Robert, “Origins and Closure: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman”, essay
2005
Creef, Elena Tajima, “Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina”, essay
Kich, Martin, “The Outer Banks” Poems of Muriel Rukeyser and W.D. Ehrhart, essay
Lawrence, Sally, “Ocracoke Boosktores: Distinctive Island Reading”, essay
Mills, Jerry Leath, “King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running”; a song by Bland Simpson and Jim Wann, essay
Willis, Lorrin, “Easter”, poetry
2006
Bennett, Barbara, “Gender Understanding in Young Adult Literature: Reading Jill McCorkle’s Ferris Beach”, essay
Burgwyn, Mebane Holoman, “Tani”, short story
Cornett, Sheryl, “Smitten by Victoriana: Randall Kenan’s Down East Boyhood with Books, Storytelling, and the Power of Language”, interview
Davis, Sarah, “[Her] destiny lay in the land”: An Overview of the Literature of Mebane Holoman Burgwyn, essay
Holsten, Anthony James, “about this girl: an interview with Sarah Dessen,”, interview
Olsen, Ted, “Reconciliation and Return: A.R. Ammons’s Poetry as Autobiography”, essay
Shepard, Nora, “Somehow Kin, North Carolina 1957,” poetry
Weatherford, Carole Boston, “The Patchwork Princess of the Great Dismal Swamp”, short story
2007
Ettari, Gary, “The Poet and The Sea”: an Interview with Peter Makuck, interview
Fay, Julie, “Letter to Myself Twenty-Five Years Ago“, essay
Hecimovich, Gregg, “Searching for Hannah Crafts in Eastern North Carolina”, essay
McMillan, Douglas J., “From “Gub’ner Green” to The Story of Cabbage Green: An Appreciation of the Writings of Ovid Williams Pierce, First Writer-in-Residence at East Carolina University”, essays
Pattillo, Laura Grace, “Writing His Way Home: An Interview with Samm-Art Williams”, interview
Smith, James, “what poetry can do and how it can do it: An Interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin”, interview
Strickland, Rhonda, “Night Light”, short story
2008
Mills, Jerry Leath, “Ruins of Time”, short story
“Mirth Carolina Laugh Tracks”, music
Parker, Michael, “The ‘Inimitable Music’ of Eastern North Carolina”, essay
Richards, Gary, “A “love of hopeless comedy”: The Humor of Personal and Cultural Crisis in Allan Gurganus’s Plays Well With Others”, essay
Smith, James, “Not Always a “Piece of Cake”: Harrowing Humor in the Poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer”, interview
Thomas, Harry, “A Wanderer of the Earth and a Son of the Community: Place and the Question of Queers in the Rural Souths of Lee Smith and Randall Kenan”, essay
Wolf, Thomas, “Distance”, short story
Zacharias, Lee, “Geography for Writers”, essay
2009
Bailey, Peggy Dunn, “Gothic Realism in Reynolds Price’s Kate Vaiden”, essay
—“Gothic Realism in Reynolds Price’s Kate Vaiden“, essay
Guralnick, June, “Finding Clara”, play
Kimball, Sue Laslie, “Bo Knows Theater And Dancing (And . . . )”, sidebar
Krawiec, Richard, “Lovers”, play
Richards, Gary, “Muscle Men, Tennessee Williams, and the State of Southern Drama: An Interview with Jim Grimsley”, interview
Rough, William Howard, “(What) The American Public Needs”: A “Theater of the People”, interview
Smith, James, “Working With The Wiggle: An Interview With Betty Adcock”, essay
York, Maurice C., “A Tribute to Doris Betts”, essay
2010
Applewhite, James, “Blossoming Poplars,” “Unpublished Interview,” “Repairing the Farmhouse,” “The Home Place,” and “Along the Ridge”, poetry
Brown, Joyce Compton, “Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia”, essay
—“Look Here, World, Look Who This Woman (Is)”: Silas House Interviews Pamela Duncan, introduction
Caison, Gina, “We’re still here”: Eddie Swimmer on Cherokee History, Life, and Outdoor Drama in the Appalachian Mountains“, interview
—“We’re still here”: Eddie Swimmer on Cherokee History, Life, and Outdoor Drama in the Appalachian Mountains”, Introduction
Ehle, John, “From the Land Breakers”, book excerpt
House, Silas, “Look Here, World, Look Who This Woman (Is)”: Silas House Interviews Pamela Duncan, interview
McGuirt, David, “Blind Faith”, short story
Mills, Jerry Leath, “What I Feel I Was Put On The Planet To Do:” An Interview with Wayne Caldwell, essay
Powell, Mark, “Ron Rash’s Serena and the “blank and pitiless gaze” of Exploitation in Appalachia”, essay
2011
Barrax, Gerald, “I Called Them Trees,” “To Waste at Trees,” “What More?,” and “Ligustrum”, poetry
Byer, Kathryn Stripling, “Writing the Interior Landscape: An Interview with George Ellison”, essay
Carter, Catherine, “The Influx”, “Holy Ground,” and “In the Graveyard”, poetry
Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle, “Tobacco Rise”, poetry
Hendrickson, Brian, “The Snow’s Already Fallen”, poetry
Hicks, Scott, “great Buzzards and talking Hogs, Ghost Crabs and Goophered Grapevines, Sharecropping and Riverwriting: Species of North Carolina Environmental Literature”, essay
Davenport, Doris, “i forgive the spiders”, poetry
Marshall, Dominique, “breaking down walls”: An Interview with David Gessner, essay
Silverthorne, Marty, “Ain’t Gonna Turn Out to Be Nothing”, poetry
2012
Avery, Laurence G., “Paul Green and the Movies”, essay
Chappell, Fred, “The Collector: On the Occasion of the Opening of the Stuart Wright Exhibit”, essay
Grimsley, Jim, “In the Same Gesture”, essay
Tyson, Timothy B., ““History v. Hollywood: Civil Rights Meet Silver Screen; or, ‘writing history with lightning,’”, essay
Whitestone, Sara, “Freedom and Power: A Talk with Zelda Lockhart”, interview
York, John Thomas, “Lamp”, poetry
2013
Conwell, Joan, “Carolina Outlier: An Interview with María DeGuzmán”, interview
Hovis, George, “The Seen and the Unseen” an interview with Wiley Cash, interview
Jackson, Ronald, “The Shower”, short story
Locklear, Erica Abrams, “Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine”, essay
—“Finding the Forsaken Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine”, essay
Ocasio, Grace C., “Little Girlfriend”, poetry
Smith-Soto, Mark, “Last Retreat to Topsail Island”, poetry
Wallace, Daniel, “Everyone Is Some Kind of Animal”, short story
2014
Baggett, Paul, “Charles W. Chesnutt and the “province of literature”, essay
Cecelski, David, Historian David Cecelski on a young Arthur Miller’s visit to Wilmington in 1941, essay
Godwin, Rebecca, “After fighting, the scars remain”: An Interview with Robert Morgan on His War Literature, interview
Gruesser, John, “Accolades to Black Military Heroism and Fantasies of Empire in James E. McGirt’s Writings”, essay
Meyers, Susan Laughter, “Rain”, poetry
Stone, Jordan, “A Hero’s Erran(t)d: The Grotesque, Modern Parody, and Southern Identity in Michaels Malone’s Handlng Sin”, essay
Thomas, Amber Flora, “The Water Calls You: An Interview with Anjail Rashida Ahmad”, interview
Vernon, Zackary, “Writing the Great War: Ron Rash and Terry Roberts Discuss World War I, the North Carolina German Internment Camp, and the Historical Novel”, interview
— “Halloween’s Herald of Democracy: Allan Gurganus and the Horror Show of American Politics”, essay
2015
Byer, Kathryn Stripling, “A Second Life to Tell the First: An Interview with Elaine Neil Orr”, interview
Ellis, Richard, “competition would be crushed”: National and International Threads in Charles Chesnutt’s The Colonel’s Dream, essay
Gerard, Philip, “The Novelist of History: Using the Techniques of Fiction to Illuminate the Past”, essay
Jackson, Elizabeth W., “East End, West End,”, poetry
Parker, Michael, “A Mighty Pretty Blue”, short story
Price, Rachael, “The Void and the Missing: History, Mystery, and Throwaway Bodies in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth”, essay
Squint, Kirstin, “Both Souths That I’ve Known” An Interview with Monique Truong, interview
Tunc, Tanfer Emin, “Paul Green’s South: Gothic Modernism in The House of Connelly”, essay
Whelchel, Jude, “Big Joy Family”, short story
2016
Anthony, Anne, “In the Company of Other Writers: An Interview with Marjorie Hudson”, essay
Church, L. Teresa, “A Literary Mission Accomplished: Twenty Years of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective”, essay
Clark, James W., “A Glimpse of these ‘Extraordinary Price Brothers’: James W. Clark interviews William S. Price”, interview
—“The Family of North Carolina’s Brothers Price: An Interview with William S. Price, Jr.”, interview
Grimsley, Jim, “He’s Right Here, He Says”, short story
Hill, Robert, “Window in Winter Light”, poetry
Kaufman, Debra, “To Be Emma Bovary” poetry
Lewis, Cynthia, “For Every Passion Something: The Myriad Book Clubs of North Carolina”, essay
—“For Every Passion Something: The Myriad Book Clubs of North Carolina”, essay
McDonald, Rob, “Imprinted with Place: A Conversation at Home with James Applewhite”, interview
Southern, Ed, “Why We Are “The Writingest State”, essay
Thomas, Amber Flora, “The Deep Shovel: A Conversation with Jaki Shelton Green”, interview
Youmans, Marly, “Alice”, poetry
Vernon, Zackary, “Boone Summer: Adventures of a Bad Environmentalist”, essay
—“Boone Summer: Adventures of a Bad Environmentalist”, essay
2017
Coby, Jim, “The Things They Have To Endure To Stay Together”: A Conversation with Matthew Griffin, interview
—“The Things They Have To Endure To Stay Together”: A Conversation with Matthew Griffin, interview
Collins, Anita, “The Anderson Kid”, short story
Colver, Russel, “Commencement”, poetry
Glover, Brian, “Make Believe with Utter Conviction: An Interview With Garth Risk Hallberg”, essay
Hovis, George, “Renaissance Man: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton”, interview
— “Renaissance Man: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton”, interview
Melchior, Priscilla, “Summer Dawn”, poetry
Morgan, Robert, “Resourceful”, poetry
Ramsey, Trace, “Miller Road”, short story
Thornton, Mary Katherine, “Secrets of Greenville’s Book Club Culture: Serving the East”, essay
2018
Chappell, Fred, “Orphans and Outcasts: The Novels of Angela Davis-Gardner”, essay
Cornett, Sheryl, “Therese Anne Fowler and Maligned Women: Setting the Story Straight
on Zelda Fitzgerald and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont”, interview
Richards, Gary, “Allan Gurganus and His Dildoes”, essay
Shields, Jr., E. Thomson, “into the vast unknown”? The Changing Ending of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony, essay
Simpson, Bland, “A Moment on Hooper Lane: How We See, How We Are Seen”, essay
2019
Bennett, Barbara, “Big Fish: The Myth and the Man”, essay
Burge, Ashley, DISEMBODIED INTIMACIES AND SHADOWS OF TRUE WOMANHOOD: Reclaiming Agency in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, essay
Duncan, Rebecca, “Lyrical Journalism, Investigative Poetry”, essay
Epps, Angela Belcher, “Sandhill: A Symphony of Souls”, essay
Harding, Jennifer, “Looking for Charles”, essay
Herin, Miriam, “Lucky”, short story
Harris, Trudier, “Aun’ Peggy: Charles Chesnutt’s Vampire Slayer?”, essay
Hawkes, DeLisa D., and Butler, Maia L., “Leaving Home to Return Home: Writing North Carolina Homeplace from the Particular to the Universal, an Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts”, interview
Hovis, George, “A Visitation with Randall Kenan”, interview
—“A Visitation with Randall Kenan”, interview
Larson, Jennifer, seeing the opportunity in tomorrow:” An Interview with Jason Mott
by Jennifer Larson , interview
Lawrence, Sally F., “Collard-Kraut and Blueberry BBQ: Discovering Vivian Howard’s Corner of the South”, interview/essay
Sarasohn, Lisa, “Glenis Redmond: Poet, Teaching Artist, Griot”, interview
Thompson, Craig, “Day at a Historic Park,” poetry
Williams, Justin, “The Verses from our Pen to him Belong” National Identity in the Political Homages of George Moses Horton”, essay
2020
Applewhite, James, “In the Art Museum”, poetry
Brandt, Jenn, “Gwendolyn Parker on Community, Writing, and the “Human Capacity for Forgiveness and Growth”“, interview
Grimsley, Jim, “The Cartography of Moira Crone: Mapping Visionary Fiction and Fantastic Futures,”, interview
Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle, “The Change”, “America, I Sing Back”, “Putting Up Beans”, and “Off-Season”, poetry
Schultz, Katey, “Something Coming”, short story
Smith, Jimmy Dean, “Knowing Your Place: Tony Earley’s Human Geography”, short story
2021
Harrington, Janis, “Bardo”, poetry
Hope-Gill, Laura, “Finding the Heart of Medicine: Intersections of Healthcare and Writing”, essay
Norris, Christie Hinson, “Teaching the Darkness Away: Humanities, History and Education”, essay
Rawlins, Paula, “The Hope of “dark-night songs”: Music and Healing in Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods“, essay
Scrimgeour, Andrew D., “Trouble in the Heartland”, short story
Squint, Kirstin L., “Many Identities, One Voice: An Interview with Cherokee Novelist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle”, interview
Thomas, Amber Flora, “music is the bearing” an interview with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, interview
Waters, Daniel James, “The Culprit: Reflections on the Bleeding Edge”, essay
Wilson, Susan, “Measured”, essay
Young, Gideon, “kwansaba crown”, poetry
2022
Adams, Heather Bell, “The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Moon”, short story
Bennett, Barbara, “Taking Leave”, essay
Butler, Maia L., “The last ghost is always the lies that are told”: An Interview with Khalisa Rae Thompson, interview
Clark, Jr., James W., “A Poem that Almost Got Away”, poetry
Epps, Angela Belcher, “Those Awful Family Trees”, essay
Eubanks, Georgann, “Paul Green: A Professor of the Practice of Playwriting”, essay
Froula, Anna and Eagan, Sheena, “That’s How We Learn”: Ben Fountain Talks With Student Veterans At ECU”, essay
Hallberg, Christy Alexander, “an artist’s artist, y’all: weird, unique, and oh so smart and talented”: An Interview with Leah Hampton, interview
Hanes, Sr., Frank Borden, “Evening Hatch”, poetry
Mitchell, Steve, “Ultimate Trip”, essay
2023
Birkhofer, Melissa D. and Worley, Paul M., “She Said That Saint Augustine is Worth Nothing Compared to Her Homeland: Teresa Martín and the Méndez Cancio Account of La Tama (1600)”, essay
Blackington, Theresa Dowell, “Concerto for the End of the World“, short story
Claxton, Mae Miller, “Mountain Biking, Bottle Trees, and Black-eyed Peas: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s Creative Nonfiction and other Writings”, essay
Elk, Tonya Holy, “Harvest Time”, poetry
Nakata, I.S., “Getting By and Through the ’40s”, essay
2024
Harrington, Janis, “That Lake, That July Sun”, poetry
Smith, Jennifer Audrey, “Auditioning for the Role of Myself: James Tate Hill on Voice, Disability, and (Dis)embodiment in Blind Man’s Bluff”, creative nonfiction
2025
Fountain, Ben, “The North Carolina that Made Me”, essay