NCLR Online Fall 2023

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

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