Native American Literature of North Carolina Forthcoming in October
cover art by Joan C. Blackwell
NCLR Online Fall 2023 Press Release [PDF] (pending)
More North Carolina Indigenous Voices
section introduction by Kirstin L. Squint, Guest Feature Editor
(pending)

Coming Home:
Affirming Community through Lumbee Children’s Literature
Randall Kenan Prize essay by Jane Haladay
illustrations by Bea Brayboy, Raven Dial-Stanley, and Evan Richardson
Whoz Ya People?:
Musings by the Author on Her Lumbee Children’s Book
an essay by Brittany Hunt
illustration by Bea Brayboy
Living My Native Past in the Present
an essay by Synora Cummings
lumBEEs: Women of the Dark Water
a play excerpt, introduced by Devra Thomas
Women of the Red Earth
a poem by Tonya Holy Elk
art by Alisha Locklear Monroe
Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

Broadening Our Mission
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor pending
WANTED: Teachers Teaching North Carolina Literature
by Daniel Moreno
Teaching Local: Interdisciplinary Archival Methods for Community-Based Learning in Wilmington, NC
by Allison Harris, Sarah Gaby, Kimi Faxon Hemmingway, Ann Rotchford, and Elizabeth Wellman
A History of Violence, a History of Beauty
a review by Jill Goad
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at this Blue
Moving Bodies, Healing Places
a review by Stan Absher
Joseph Bathanti, Light at the Seams
Joseph Mills, Bodies in Motion
Phillip Lewis on the Intertextuality of The Barrowfields
introduced by George Hovis
A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past
a review by Kristina L. Knotts
David Wright Faladé, Black Cloud Rising
Regarding Edward
a review by Terry Roberts
Elizabeth Spencer, The Edward Tales
Port of Despair
a review by Jon Kesler
Michael Keenan Gutierrez, The Swill
Lee Smith Goes to Key West
a review by Sharon E. Colley
Lee Smith, Silver Alert
Naming the Unnameable and Communicating the Unknowable
a review by Christy Alexander Hallberg
Michael Gaspeny, A Postcard from the Delta
Michael Parker, I Am the Light of This World
A Wayfarer at Devil’s Elbow
a short story by Emily Alice Katz
art by Jeremy Russell
Isaac Hollifield
a poem by Richard Betz
North Carolina Miscellany

Poetry Off the Page:
The Premiere Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize
Ever Haunted
a review by Amanda M. Capelli
Mimi Herman, The Kudzu Queen
Culley Holderfield, Hemlock Hollow
Bent Fork
a poem by Roxanne Henderson
art by Sharon Dowell
Uniformity of Carcass
a short story by Gary V. Powell
art by Frank Holliday
Dogwood
a poem by Johnny Cate
art by Bre Barnett Crowell
Transmission Lines
an essay by Lockie Hunter
photography by Micah Cash
Poems of Hope and Redemption
a review by James W. Kirkland
Scott Owens, Prepositional: New & Selected Poems
The Forgotten South, Remembered
a review by Dale Neil
Keith Flynn and Charter Weeks, Prosperity Gospel
Nominations from this Issue
John Burroughs Nature Essay Award
Lockie Hunter
Print Issues
2023 Student Staff
Senior Editorial Assistant
Megan Smith
Editorial Assistants
Amber Knox
Daniel C. Moreno
Wendy Tilley
Interns
Dasani Cropper
Megan Howell
Abby Trzepacz
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