NCLR 2006

The Patchwork Princess of the Great Dismal Swamp
by Carole Boston Weatherford
illustrated by Molly Windsor

Smitten by Victoriana: Randall Kenan’s Down East Boyhood with Books, Storytelling, and the Power of Language
by Sheryl Cornett

Eleanora E. Tate on her Literary Inspiration

Mary Ann Bryan Mason’s Literary Milestone: A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina
by Maurice C. York

“[Her] destiny lay in the land”: An Overview of the Literature of Mebane Holoman Burgwyn
by Sarah Davis

Tani
a children’s story and illustrations by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

“spreading out all the rocks and treasure and creepy crawlies”: An Interview with Frances O’Roark Dowell
by Angela Leeper

Eleanora E. Tate on her Ideal Audience

“about a girl”: An Interview with Sarah Dessen
by Anthony James Holston

Sarah Dessen’s Cautiously Optimistic Realism: Decades Beyond the Teen Problem Novel
by Laureen Tedesco

Gender Understanding in Young Adult Literature: Reading Jill McCorkle’s Ferris Beach
by Barbara Bennett

“skill and caring and, yes, passion”: Louise Hawes’s Formula for Writing Fiction
an interview by Lisa Morgan

Young Reader Apathy: Assessing the Causes and Posing Solutions with Barbara Bennett, Eleanora E. Tate, and Elizabeth McDavid Jones
by Stephanie West-Puckett

Hatteras Blues: Greatness and Grace on the Edge
by Ronald Wesley Hoag

Reconciliation and Return: A.R. Ammons’s Poetry as Autobiography
by Ted Olson

The North Carolina Poems of A.R. Ammons
by Alex Albright

Snake Girl
a short story by John Kessel
illustrated by Joan Mansfield

Miniature
creative nonfiction by Michael Parker
photography by Will Cook

Devil Girl from Mars
a poem by Brenda Hammack
art by Scott Eagle

Harried, Hairy, and Harrowing
an epistolary essay by Mary Moss

Sweet Diana
a poem by Daniel Saalfeld
photography by Will Cook

The Purple Monster
a poem by Bill Duvall
art by Louis St. Lewis

The Snow Queen’s Story and Co-Dependent God Poem
two poems by Brenda Mann Hammack
art by Walter Piepke

Second Helpings, 1968 and Blue, Part II of IV
two poems by Charles Israel, Jr.
art by Richard Stenhouse

Red Poppy and Like a Shell the Body Opens
two poems by Henrietta Chaussee
art by Barbara Fisher

Notes on Voice
a poem by David Welch
art by Christine Siegfried

Somehow Kin, North Carolina 1957
a poem by Nora Shepard
photography by R.H. Sturges

Mall Awaking
a poem by Dan Stryk
photography by Jim White

Rehearsal: Achibald MacLeish’s JB
a poem by Gary Ettari
art by Henryk Fantazos

Love, Death, and Sweet Potato Biscuits
by David Cecelski
photography by Sandra Carawan

Pass the Collards, Please!: Writing about East Carolina Culinary Traditions

North Carolina Sweet Potato and Pork Stew—or Sweet Potato Stew (vegan)
a recipe by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Tales from the “Other” White South
a review of historical memoirs by Timothy B. Tyson and Karl Fleming
by Nicole Nolan Sidhu

Hero, Interrupted
a review of Clyde Edgerton’s flying memoir
by Tonita Branan

In Place and Out
a review of Thomas Rain Crow’s Ragan Cup-winning memoir
by Ronald Wesley Hoag

A “book of pages waiting to be turned”
a review of Minnie Bruce Pratt’s selected poems collection
by Christina G. Bucher

“Reckon[ing] up losses”
a review of two new James Applewhite collections
by Patrick Bizzaro

Novel Revisits Real-Life Catastrophe in Small Town
a review of Laurence Naumoff’s Raleigh historical novel
by Philip Gerard

Family Physics
a review of Haven Kimmel’s latest novel
by Sally Lawrence

The Enchanting World of Adantis
a review of a sequel by Marly Youmans
by Sara K. Day

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Talbot to Vorse
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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