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Moore reviews Kenan

Saturday Review: “Lightening Strikes Twice” a review by Al-Tariq Moore in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Randall Kenan. Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings (2022)

This new collection of various essays published elsewhere allows the reader of Kenan’s lauded fiction a deeper understanding of the writer crafting the stories.

Black NC Writers History: the CAAWC

Friday from the Archives: “A Literary Mission Accomplished: Twenty Years of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective” by L. Teresa Church from NCLR 25 (2016).

“In 1995, the timing was right for a new writers group to take root within the cultural landscape of North Carolina’s Research Triangle area.”

Beadle reviews Chamlee

Saturday Review: “The Poet and The Painter: Exploring Personal Landscapes”
a review of Kenneth Chamlee by Michael Beadle in NCLR Online Winter 2024
If Not These Things (2022)
The Best Material for the Artist in the World (2023)

NCLR First 2024 Issue Introduces “NC Disability Literature” Feature

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The first of now four issues, the Winter Online issue of North Carolina Literary Review starts the 2024 feature “North Carolina Disability Literature” with our Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize winning story “The Weight of Light” by writer and cover artist Laura Hope-Gill, along with four other stories and book reviews.  

Collins Reviews Thomsen

Saturday Review: “The Book Of Whys” a review by Christie Collins
Melinda Thomsen. Armature (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

“Armature asks readers to consider the commonplace alongside the remarkable,…”

A Novel of Purpose, Then and Now

Friday from the Archives: “Charles W. Chesnutt and the “province of literature”” by Paul Baggett from NCLR 23 (2014).

Going back a decade and revisiting our 2014 issue.

Allee Reviews Gardner

Saturday Review: “Mari and Jase’s Story: Honesty, Acceptance, and yes, Some Kissing”
a review by Jessica L. Allee of Kati Gardner Finding Balance (2020) in NCLR Online Winter 2024