Their Own Voice, Their Own Words
2026 Guest Feature Editor Anna Froula shares more about why we’re featuring writing by and about NC veterans.
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McGaha reviews Smith
Saturday Review: “A Stunning and Haunting Survival Story” a review by Jennifer McGaha in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Stephanie Clare Smith’s Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and imagination (2024)
In memoriam: Miriam Herin
Friday from the Archives: “Lucky” the 2018 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story by Miriam Herin
with art by Lien Truong in NCLR Online 2019
West reviews Beam
Saturday Review: “Scripture of Exile and Return” a review by Robert M. West of Jeffery Beam’s Verdant (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.
New NC Poet Wins 2025 Green Performance Poetry Contest
Established poet new to NC takes the 2025 Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize
The Jargon Society Lives On
Friday from the Archives: “A Snowflake Orchard and What I Found There: An Informal History of the Jargon Society” by Jeffery Beam in NCLR 1997
Beadle reviews Childress
Saturday Review: “Challenging Perspective with Persona Poetry,” a review by Michael Beadle of Catherine Pritchard Childress’s Outside the Frame in NCLR Online Spring 2025
Grimsley Returning
Friday from the Archives: “In the Same Gesture” by Jim Grimsley from NCLR 21 (2012)
By Kenly Corya, Senior Editorial Assistant
2026 Feature: Saluting Military Writing
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West reviews Wolf
Saturday Review: “Introducing children to the wonders of the universe” a review by Mark I. West of Allan Wolf’s children’s book The Blanket Where Violet Sits (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.