Susan Wilson of Clemmons Wins the ’25 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Congratulations to Susan Wilson, our Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner for 2025, and the runners up and other finalists!
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Cold Springs, NC, 2163
Friday from the Archives: “Interviews in Cold Springs, North Carolina” a story by Warren Rochelle illustrated by Lali in NCLR 2001
Corya reviews Kingfisher
Saturday Review: “Feminism in Dark Fairy Tales,” a review by Kenly Corya of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone (2022) and A Sorceress Comes to Call (2024) in… Read More »Corya reviews Kingfisher
Revisiting “Dream Boy” on Reprint
Friday from the Archives: “Dream Boy: Jim Grimsley’s Gothic Gospel” by Ed Madden with photography by W. Cameron Dennis and Mary Thiessen in NCLR 2000
Carter Reviews Jacobs
Saturday Review: “so many there with me” a review by Catherine Carter in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Jessica Jacobs’ poetry collection unalone: Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis (2024)
“Holy Ground” by Catherine Carter
Friday from the Archives: “The Influx”, “Holy Ground,” and “In the Graveyard” three poems by Catherine Carter with art by Jane Filer in NCLR 2011
Webb reviews McGaha
Saturday Review: “Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight” a review by Patricia R. Webb in NCLR Spring 2025 of Jennifer McGaha’s The Joy Document (2024).
“Rain” by Susan Laughter Meyers
Friday from the Archives: “Rain” the 2013 James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
by Susan Laughter Meyers with art by Leah Sobsey in NCLR 2014
NCLR Editor at Friends of Joyner Library
Editor Dr. Margaret Bauer will join this year’s Friends of Joyner Library Annual Meeting.
“At the end of the day, we’re all poets”
“So as far as my own words, performing them. I think it’s bringing life to something that you’re very passionate to talk about, and that can also go up to when you’re doing written words in a book. But I think when you get a chance to perform, It is because you already have in your mind, Have a certain way you want to perform something…”