Haspel reviews Ewen & Shields
Saturday Review: “Becoming the Lost Colony” a review by Donald Paul Haspel in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Charles R. Ewen and E. Thomson Shields Jr.’s book, Becoming the Lost Colony (2024
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“A Love to Die For”
Through this tale, we learn of the building passion between two friends who have just met. “And it was there, in the darkness before the rising of any moon, that Lamp looked deep into the eyes of the young man he had so carefully nurtured, whose love he had caused to grow the way a gardener grows fruit, and told him that he had a secret to reveal.”
NCLR Staff Continues to Expand
Please say hello to Kristi and Rebecca, our two newest editors on the NCLR team!
Albright Creative Nonfiction Contest with Guest Judge Paul Crenshaw
The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce Paul Crenshaw as the judge for this year’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Competition. The annual prize is awarded to the best short creative nonfiction story by a North Carolina writer or set in North Carolina.
Cash reviews Moore
Saturday Review: “Finding a Way Out; Finding Yourself,” a review by Olivia Cash of Marshall Moore’s I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Love, Loss, and the Cats We Had
As we eagerly await our new batch of interns and assistants, we share a piece from Abby, one of our students who wrapped her internship last semester. The 1996 “Cats and Their Writers” feature remains a perennial favorite.
Fackler Wins the Doris Betts Fiction Prize
Greensboro’s Evan Fackler wins this year’s Betts Prize!
Bennett Reviews Gwin
Saturday Review: “Snake in the Grass” a review by Barbara Bennett of Minrose Gwin’s novel, Beautiful Dreamers (2024) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Scrimgeour’s 2020 Albright Winning Essay
Inspiration from the 2020 winner of the Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest, before this year’s submission window opens!
Whetstone reviews Myers
Saturday Review: “Growing Up with Tobacco Truths” a review by Stephanie Whetstone of Adele Myers’s The Tobacco Wives: A Novel (2022), forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter… Read More »Whetstone reviews Myers