Berry reviews Clark
Saturday Review: “Monsters, Preachers, & Young Lovers in Southern Appalachia,” a review by Evelyn Berry of Andrew K. Clark’s Where Dark Things Grow (2024) and Where Dark Things Rise (2025), forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2026
News
The South’s Smoke and Mirrors
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000
2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize goes to “The Whittaker Wall”
Laura Cruser wins the 2025 Betts Fiction Prize
Froula reviews Ramos
2026 guest feature editor Anna Froula reviews veteran Michael Ramos’s memoir.
“Blazing Star,” a short story by Lee Smith
This week’s Friday from the Archives comes from the editor and from her first issue as editor.
Bennett reviews Boggs (rerun)
Saturday Review: “Finding Hope and Goodness among Life’s Twists” a review by Barbara Bennett
of Belle Boggs, The Gulf and Kathryn Schwille, What Luck, This Life in NCLR Online 2020
We’ll get into our forthcoming Winter issue reviews in January!
“Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” by Kathleen Halme
Friday from the Archives: “Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” a poem by Kathleen Halme
with art by Claude Howell in NCLR 1998
As we head into the longest night of the year, the Solstice, and winter begins, we think of the return of the light, and the warmth of the summer sun.
“We are made by the things we regret.”
Your story is important, to you, to us, to North Carolina.
Colley reviews Parker
Saturday Review: “Playing with Postmodern Pastiche” a review by Sharon Colley on Alan Michael Parker’s Bingo Bango Boingo, in NCLR Online Fall 2025
NC Writing from 1760s to 2025
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000