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NCLR’s Big Announcement for 2024

Via the broad audience of our online issues, digitizing the print issues for library subscription services, and, of course, social media, word about NCLR is getting out.

McClanahan To Judge Creative Nonfiction Contest

The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce Rebecca McClanahan as the judge for this year’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Competition. The annual prize is awarded to the best short creative nonfiction story by a North Carolina writer or set in North Carolina.

Dunn Reviews Gomez

Saturday Review: “Living With Compulsions” a review by Patricia A. Dunn
Halli Gomez. List of Ten (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
“The author’s own experience with
this disability brings an authenticity to Troy’s painful body movements and inner thoughts.”

Remembering Fred Chappell

Friday from the Archives: “Citizens Who Observe: A Conversation with Fred Chappell” by Sandy Sullivan from NCLR 7 (1998).

We join family, friends, and countless students in mourning the passing of beloved professor, former state poet laureate, and author Fred Chappell, who passed away this January.

Teaching & Reading for Empathy

Pulling this back around to our Teaching Tuesday and What We’re Reading Wednesday: I teach literature, which teaches empathy, which seems sorely lacking these days, and when I read inspiring writing, I want to share it.

Woodford Reviews Shinn

Saturday Review: “The Map That Leads To Salvation” a review by Annie Woodford
Kelley Shinn: The Wounds That Bind Us (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Remembering Anita Collins

Friday from the Archives: “The Anderson Kid” by Anita Collins from NCLR 26 (2017).

We join family and friends in mourning the passing of Anita Collins, our ’16 Doris Betts Fiction Prize winner, who passed away in December.