NCLR Online Fall 2022

Writers Who Teach, Teachers Who Write

cover art by Joan Mansfield

NCLR Online Fall 2022 Press Release [PDF]

Pushcart Nomination
Liza Wieland

Introducing the Premiere Fall Issue

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Welcome to the first fall issue of NCLR Online and to this section, a third installment of our 2022 feature. . . . We open with ECU Distinguished Professor Emerita Liza Wieland’s moving essay inspired by #The100DayProject art by Joan Mansfield that you’ve seen on all three 2022 issue covers now.”

100 Days Project
an essay by Liza Wieland
art by Joan Mansfield

My Grandmother’s Love Letters
an essay by Lockie Hunter

Those Awful Family Trees
an essay by Angela Belcher Epps

You Do Not Have To Be Good
an essay by Erin Carpenter
art by Rowena Bradley, Virgil Ledford, and Eva Wolfe

Memento Mori
a review by Molly Sentell Haile
Julia Ridley Smith, The Sum of Trifles

Examining “Otherness” on the Page and in the Classroom with Michele Berger
Randall Kenan Prize essay by Dolly R. Sickles

Beauty in Knowledge, Knowledge Is Beauty
a speech by Purificación Martínez

Let It Go
a poem by Dean Marshall Tuck
art by Vandorn Hinnant

Under My Skin
a short story by Oswaldo Estrada
photography by Yesenia Cuello

Who’s Not Afraid After Flannery O’Connor?
a review by Dale Neal
Beth Gilstrap, Deadheading & Other Stories
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Sleepovers

Beyond the Drawl
a review by Katherine Abrams
Heather Newton, McMullen Circle

The Loneliest Girl in the Whole USA
a review by Susan O’Dell Underwood
Valerie Nieman, In the Lonely Backwater

Cursive
a poem by Catherine Carter
art by Liz Miller

A New Collection by NCLR Poetry Editor
a review by Eric C. Walker
Jeffrey Franklin, Where We Lay Down

Blackboard 1958
a poem by Mark Smith-Soto
art by Gina Esquivel

“Bless all that rusts and ages”
a review by Jim Clark
Paul Jones, Something Wonderful
Al Maginnes, The Beasts that Vanish

North Carolina Native James Ijames Receives 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

Photo Albums and (Un)Familiar Faces
a review by Savannah Geidel
Lenard D. Moore, Long Rain
Grace C. Ocasio, Family Reunion

Symphony for Snow
a poem by Lavonne Adams
art by John Menapace

The Good, the Bad, the Endless In-Between
a review by James W. Kirkland
Scott Owens, Counting the Ways and Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming

Ode: February Morning at Our Rural Cafe
a poem by Benjamin Cutler
art by Jim Lee

Statriot Bland Simpson Receives 2022
North Caroliniana Society Book Award
presentation remarks by Michael Hill
photography by Tom Earnhardt, Ann Cary Simpson, and Scott Taylor

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“As [Monica Byrne] points out, the writing community here is supportive – a big family, I might suggest. And just because someone leaves the nest doesn’t mean they are out of the family.”

Monica Byrne Receives 2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award

Sandspurs and Briars, II
an essay by Emily Dunlap Carter

Coping and Connection: The Ever-Present Struggle
a review by Dennis R. Turner, Jr.
Robert Wallace, As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea

Secrets and Friendship
a review by Megan Smith
Heather Bell Adams, The Good Luck Stone

Sound and Sense Take Flight
a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson
Jeffrey Beam, Spectral Pegasus/Dark Movements

A Study of the Human Animal
a review by Timothy K. Nixon
David Sedaris, The Best of Me

Memoir in Search of Understanding
a review by Josephine Humphreys
Judy Goldman, Child

North Carolina on Trial and Readers in the Jury Box
a review by Jenn Brandt
Megan Goldin, The Night Swim