NCLR 2024

Featuring North Carolina Disability Literature

cover art by Max Herbert

Read the NCLR 2024 Press Release [PDF]

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Pushcart Nominations
Janis Harrington
Ashley Harris
Debra Kaufman
Gary V. Powell
Paul Reali

Just Some of the “many experiences of disability” in North Carolina Literature

section introduction by Casey Kayser, Guest Feature Editor [PDF]

“We are especially proud that the issue features the work of many artists and writers with disabilities and that thighlights disability experiences throughout.”

“Two Different Worlds”: The Life and Writings of Mary Herring Wright
by Delia Steverson

Auditioning for the Role of Myself: James Tate Hill on Voice, Disability, and (Dis)embodiment in Blind Man’s Bluff
by Audrey Jennifer Smith
art by RaeAnn MacDonagh
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Buy Now! The Summer of My Shoe Obsession
an essay by Ashley Harris
art by Max Herbert

Fechtwunde: Wounding Flesh and Nature in Ron Rash’s Serena
by Taylor Hagood
art by Joan Mansfield

Othering, Stigmatization, and Exclusion in Lee Smith’s Guests on Earth: Highland Hospital and the Treatment and Perception of Mental Illness in the Mid-Twentieth Century
by Donna Summerlin
art by Catherine Edgerton

Familiar . . . Family

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor [PDF]

“This section has evolved since 2003 to include not just more content on previous feature topics but also essays about writers from North Carolina’s literary history who have inspired numerous scholars over the past three-plus decades of NCLR. And here, too, we began to include writers we previously published or featured – members of the NCLR family, if you will. We lost one of those family members this year, Fred Chappell, whose fiction I first read on my way to interview for this job and thus whose fiction I featured in my first issue of NCLR (1998).”

Marrows of Tradition: Chesnutt, Hansberry, and Wilmington 1898
by Stephanie Browner
art by Katharen Wiese

Abandoned Roanoke: A Sixteenth-Century Mystery, Interwar Anxiety, and Historical Speculation in Paul Green’s The Lost Colony
by Donald Paul Haspel

Gail Godwin and Peace College: The School and The Novelist
by Jean W. Cash

Four Poems by Fred Chappell
a remembrance by Alex Albright

Complicating the Appalachian Narrative:
A Conversation with David Joy
an interview by Leah Hampton
photography by Ashley T. Evans

The Late Rebellion: An Interview with Mark Powell
Randall Kenan Prize interview by Zackary Vernon

Fifty-Cal
a short story by Gary V. Powell
photography by Andrea Bruce

Daguerrologue
a poem by Debra Kaufman
art by Cameron Johnson

That Lake, That July Sun
James Applewhite Poetry Prize
poem by Janis Harrington
art by Kate Nartker