“Guest Star” Wins 2024 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Congratulations to Ashlen Renner, the 2024 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner, as well as honorable mentions for Erick Aguilar and Loss Pequeno Glazier.
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A Lot of Work But More Rewards
From the initial drafting of the CFP to finalizing content, the entire process has been an immense amount of work but rewarding all along the way.
NC Humanities Stories Luncheon
We are thrilled to again sponsor the NC Humanities Stories Luncheon, honoring the Caldwell Award recipient(s).
Smith reviews Rash
Saturday Review: “And We Are Here, Right Here” a review by Jimmy Dean Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2024 of Ron Rash’s novel The Caretaker (2023)
Japanese-American-Carolinian-Californian
Friday from the Archives: “Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina” an essay by Elena Tajima Creef from NCLR 14 (2005) “I begin to understand that in the end, the only things any of us can ever really leave behind for one another are the stories of our lives.”
Summer Reading Happened So Fast
I don’t know what made me grab Dawn Shamp’s 2008 novel _On Account of Conspicuous Women_ from the shelf where it was lying down among other books too tall for the height of the bookshelves.
2025: NC LGBTQ+ Literature
Randall Kenan. Bertha Harris. David Sedaris. Allan Gurganus. Jim Grimsley. These are just a handful of North Carolina authors who write openly and passionately about… Read More »2025: NC LGBTQ+ Literature
Wilson reviews Boyles
Saturday Review: “Debut Novel By Carolina Newcomer Offers Thrill Ride” a review by Henry L. Wilson of Bark On by Mason Boyles (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
The Southern Female Voice of Kaye Gibbons
Friday from the Archives: “We Were Whole Again: Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon” by Mary Ann Wilson from NCLR 8 (1999)
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Turner reviews Mustian
Saturday Review: “Swamp Girls In Trouble: Class, Race, and The Patriarchy In The Prohibition-era South” a review by Dennis R. Turner, Jr. of The Girls in the Stilt House. by Kelly Mustian (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024