Two-time Albright Honors for Angela Epps
Friday from the Archives: “Those Awful Family Trees” by Angela Belcher Epps from NCLR Online Fall 2022.
Angela Belcher Epps has twice won an honorable mention for this prize.
News
Albright Reading at Scuppernong Books
We’ll be in Greensboro on 2/24 for the second Albright Prize reading!
Godwin reviews Roberts
Saturday Review: “From Big Pine to Jazz: Making A Life With Pizzazz” a review by Rebecca Godwin in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Terry Roberts. The Sky Club (2022)
“Little Girlfriend”
Friday from the Archives: “Little Girlfriend” a poem by Grace C. Ocasio from NCLR 22 (2013).
This is the first Ocasio poem to be published in NCLR.
Contemporary Black NC Authors: A Primer
Looking for a list of Contemporary Black North Carolina authors to read for Black History Month (and beyond)?
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)
Celebrating our Literary Hall of Famers!
Friday from the Archives: A link roundup of the 2024 Literary Hall of Fame inductees!
Albright Winner (& Guests!) Reading
Join Albright winner Laura Hope-Gill and other NCLR authors for a reading at Lenoir Rhyne University in Asheville.