Special Feature: War in North Carolina Literature
cover design by Dana Ezzell Gay
Pushcart Nominations
Annie Frazier
Claudette Cohen
David S. Cecelski
Susan Laughter Meyers
Glenis Redmond
Zackary Vernon
Writing about the Foolishness of War
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]
“[T]he topic of war in North Carolina literature attracted such inspired submissions, from [an] interview with Robert Morgan, which focuses largely on his Revolutionary War novel Brave Enemies, to [an] essay on a post-apocalyptic novel . . .”
“After fighting, the scars remain”: An Interview with Robert Morgan on His War Literature
by Rebecca Godwin
Read the first page here. [PDF]
Accolades to Black Military Heroism and Fantasies of Empire in James E. McGirt’s Writings
by John Gruesser
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Writing the Great War: Ron Rash and Terry Roberts Discuss World War I, the North Carolina German Internment Camp, and the Historical Novel
an interview by Zackary Vernon
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“the voice of the shipyard”: Arthur Miller in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1941
by David S. Cecelski
The Mayor of Biscoe
the 2013 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story
by Claudette Cohen
art by Jonathan Bowling and Billy Lee
Black Mountain’s Post-Apocalyptic Civil War in William Forstchen’s One Second After
by Kathaleen Amende
photography by Karen Neal
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Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues
inspired by Michael Malone’s Handling Sin
We Can’t Get Enough of Some People’s Writing
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]
“[W]e want to hear about – and from – talented North Carolina writers over and over again.”
Charles W. Chesnutt and the “province of literature”
by Paul Baggett
Rain
the 2013 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
by Susan Laughter Meyers
art by Leah Sobsey
To Catch a Flight to Arkansas and Ringwood
two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
art by Edward T. Smith
Performing the South: Lee Smith’s The Last Girls
by Shirley A. Stave
Images on Waking and Science Fictions
two poems by James Applewhite
art by Richard Fennell, Jeff Kiefer, and Barbara Morgan
A Hero’s Erran(t)d: The Grotesque, Modern Parody, and Southern Identity in Michael Malone’s Handling Sin
by Jordan Stone
art by Rich Powell
Two Forms of Escape
a poem by C.G. Thompson
art by Leah Sobsey
After Hours and Shaftesbury
two poems by Fred Chappell
art by Andrew Hayes
Halloween’s Herald of Democracy: Allan Gurganus and the Horror Show of American Politics
by Zackary Vernon
Blanc
a poem by Glenis Redmond
art by Faustin Dumé and Edouard Duval Carrié
Leaving My Mother at the Airport
a poem by Debra Kaufman
art by Linda Foard Roberts
North Carolina Miscellany
New, Yet Familiar Names
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]
“You will see when you read [Frazier’s] story that writing talent runs in the family.”
Determining the Worth and Fox
two poems by Hannah Bonner
art by Clyde Edgerton
Sakura
a short story by Annie Frazier
Hear an excerpt here. ?
art by Ruth Asawa
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