NCLR Online 2021

On Beauty, The Reluctant Beauty Queen
an essay by Glenis Redmond 

Promised Land
a poem by Maura High 
art by Damian Stamer 

At Home in North Carolina: An Interview with Belle Boggs
by Barbara Bennett 

The Courage to Face Your Truth
a review by Loren Ashten 
Rachael Brooks, Beads
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leftover women
a poem by Lisa M. Pursley 
art by Catharine Carter 

Next to Godliness
a short story by Rose Himber Howse 
art by Patricia Steele Raible
Listen to an excerpt of the story here. ?

Love and Death in North Carolina Poetry
a review by Catherine Carter 
Jessica Jacobs, Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going 
Wayne Johns, Antipsalm
Eric Tran, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer 

Always Timely, No Matter the Time
a review by Ashley Daughtridge 
Kati Gardner, Brave Enough 
David Brendan Hopes, The Falls of Wyona 

Weeding
a poem by J.S. Absher 
art by Vandorn Hinnant 

At the End of the Causeway
an essay by Hannah Towey 
art by Mary Edna Fraser
Listen to the essay here. ?

Solastalgia
a poem by Christopher Shipman 
art by Kenn Kotara 
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Directing Our Attention to the Finite Things of This World
a review by Amber Flora Thomas 
Catherine Carter, Larvae of the Nearest Stars

​The Battle of Relationships through Different Eyes
a review by Jim Clark 
Daynne Romine Powell, In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver
Sandra Ann Winters, Do Not Touch 

Measured
an essay by Susan Wilson 
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Hypnopompic hallucination of you and your ex in a horse pasture five miles outside of Greensboro
a poem by Shari Crane Fox 
art by Malu Tan 

Love and Marriage
a review by Brandy Reeves 
Judy Goldman, Together 

Keeper
a poem by Richard Betz 
art by Christopher Lambert 

Bardo
a poem by Janis Harrington 
art by Rebecca Aloisio 

Time to Start Over
a review by Max Kilgore 
Dale Neal, Appalachian Book of the Dead 

Grace
a poem by Janet Ford 
art by Juan Logan 

Tallying the Cost of Addiction in Appalachia
a review by Dale Neal 
David Joy, When These Mountains Burn
Meagan Lucas, Songbirds & Stray Dogs 

Wherever You Go
a short story by Nancy H. Williard 
art by Robert Boyd 
Listen to an excerpt of the story here. ?

The Battle Inside
a review by Meagan Lucas 
Katey Schultz, Still Come Home 
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The Great Dimming of the Year 2020
an essay by Carol Scott-Conner 
art by Tim Christensen
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Ammons Among North Carolina Friends
a review by Eric C. Walker 
Emily Herring Wilson, “When I Go Back to My Home Country”: Remembrance of Archie Ammons 

2021 Ehle Prize Awarded to Essay on Ehle
Finding Ehle’s Mountain Novels 
by Savannah Paige Murray

Something (More) Rich and Strange
a review by Jimmy Dean Smith 
Ron Rash, In the Valley 
Frédérique Spill, The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash’s Writings
 
A Little Bit of Suffering in Common
a review by Jim Coby 
John Hart, The Unwilling 
Charles Dodd White, How Fire Runs 

Short Story Sequencing
a review by Sharon E. Colley 
Leah Hampton, F*ckface and Other Stories 
Rhonda Browning White, The Lightness of Water & Other Stories 

2019-2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award Winner 
A Map to Everlasting and Liberating Truth
a review by Philip Gerard 
Wayne Moore, Triumphant Warrior 

Angelic Voices Sing in North Carolina
a review by Reginald Watson 
Randall Kenan, If I Had Two Wings 
Lenard D. Moore, Editor, All the Songs We Sing 
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Remembering Randall
by Margaret D. Bauer 

​Michael Parker Awarded 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize 

Jill McCorkle and Lee Smith Mine the Past, and Both Find Gold
a review by Barbara Bennett 
Jill McCorkle, Hieroglyphics
Lee Smith, Blue Marlin 

The Heart of the Story
a review by Tanya Long Bennett 
Monique Truong, The Sweetest Fruits 

In Search of “Wonders Hidden and Huge”
a review by James W. Kirkland 
Peg Bresnahan, Hunger to Share 

Homage to Hawthorne: A (New) Wonder Book 
a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson 
Marly Youmans, Charis in the World of Wonders 

Love, Power, and Beauty in an Aspirational Rome
a review by Mayee Zhu 
David Brendan Hopes, Night, Sleep, and the Dreams of Lovers 

Discovering Who We Are
a review by Angela Love Moser 
Sarah Dessen, The Rest of the Story 

Make Your Own Kind of Happily Ever After
a review by Savanah Paige Murray 
Sophie Gonzalez, Only Mostly Devastated 
Mary Cecilia Jackson, Sparrow

Debut Novel by Meg Cannistra Wins NC AAUW Award

Secure Invitations
a review by Robert M. West 
Keith Flynn, The Skin of Meaning
Al Maginnes, Sleeping Through the Graveyard Shift 
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2020 Caldwell Award Winner James W. Clark, Jr., North Carolina’s “Johnny Appleseed of the Humanities”

Yearning Over Yonder
a review by Susannah Hedley 
Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing 
art by Marjorie Pierson 

Themes That Persist: Coming of Age Tales of Race, Family, and Identity
a review by Amanda Shingleton Robles 
Sion Dayson, As A River 
Molly Dektar, The Ash Family 

Resilience and Connection
a review by Kristina L. Knotts 
Rebecca Hodge, Wildland

If This Be Life
a review by Rebecca Duncan 
Judy Dearlove, Play On! 

Building a Better Birdhouse: Clifford Garstang’s Troubled Men
a review by Dale Bailey 
Clifford Garstang, House of the Ancients and Other Stories and The Shaman of Turtle Valley

2020 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award Honors Eastern Cherokee Stories

​Caught in the Teeth of Love
a review by Jim Coby 
Nathan Ballingrud, Wounds: Six Stories from the Borders of Hell 

When We Talk About Love, There’s Pain
a review by Helen Stead 
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, A Small Thing to Want 
Ray Morrison, I Hear the Human Noise

Triad Stage of Greensboro Receives Hardee Rives Award

Yesterday and Today
a review by Emily Herring Wilson 
June Sylvester Saraceno, Feral, North Carolina, 1965 and The Girl From Yesterday

To Speak in Your Own Voice
a review by Janice N. Harrington
Dorianne Laux, As the Day Is Long
Annie Woodford, Bootleg

Lessons in Persistence
a review by Anna McFadyen 
Kay Bosgraaf, The Fence Lesson 
Patricia Hooper, Wild Persistence 
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Voice and The Reliable Narrator
a review by Patrick Bizzaro 
Malaika King Albrecht, The Stumble Field 
Michael Gaspeny, The Tyranny of Questions