We are honored to welcome Clyde Edgerton, winner of the North Carolina Humanities Award for Literature, and Elizabeth Engelhardt, author of Boardinghouse Women, which examines the influence of the Old Kentucky Home on Wolfe’s life and works. The theme of our conference is “The Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe.”
Friday from the Archives: “Lyrical Journalism, Investigative Poetry” by Rebecca Duncan from NCLR 28 (2019)
Congratulations to Ashlen Renner, the 2024 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner, as well as honorable mentions for Erick Aguilar and Loss Pequeno Glazier.
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.
We are thrilled to again sponsor the NC Humanities Stories Luncheon, honoring the Caldwell Award recipient(s).
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)
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.”
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.
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
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