The North Carolina Literary Review is now the administrative partner for the prestigious North Carolina Book Awards: The Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction, and the American Association of University Women of North Carolina Young People’s Literature Award.
Saturday Review: “Community as Witness in West Mills” a review by Kristina L. Knotts in NCLR Online Winter 2024
De’Shawn Charles Winslow. Decent People (2023)
Friday from the Archives: “Women Writers of Black Mountain College” by Lois Carol Wheatley from NCLR 11 (2002).
NCLR is extremely proud to announce the recipients of three awards for 2024 issues’ content: the John Ehle Prize, Randall Kenan Prize, and Paul Green Prize.
Saturday Review: “Found Magic” a review by J.S. Absher in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Joan Barasovska. Orange Tulips (2022)
Janis Harrington. How to Cut a Woman in Half (2022)
Friday from the Archives: “The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry” by Jessica Cory from NCLR 32 (2023).
This month, a blog post from one of our longtime editorial board members:
“I suspected that perhaps I was being made the butt of some Kafkaesque joke, but here I was, so I tapped on the door and was instructed by a voice brimming with barely suppressed laughter to ‘come on in.’”—George Hovis
NCLR will have a booth at the NCWN Spring Conference in Greensboro. And save the date: 5/13, Cherokee, NC: A Celebration of Cherokee writing from NCLR 2023
Saturday Review: “Poetry of Place” a review by Chris Abbate in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Forever Eighty-Eights (2022) by Molly Rice
Friday from the Archives: “Therese Anne Fowler and Maligned Women: Setting the Story Straight on Zelda Fitzgerald and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont” an Interview by Sheryl Cornett from NCLR 27 (2018).