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Bailey Reviews Ballingrud

Saturday Review: “The Baroque Power of Nathan Ballingrud’s New Novella,” a review by Dale Bailey, forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Nathan Ballingrud’s novella Crypt of the Moon Spider (2024). 

“Summer Night” at Weymouth Center

Friday from the Archives: Two poems accompanying “Weymouth: A Writer’s Place—From Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe” by Bertie E. Fearing from NCLR 3 (1994)

NCLR enjoyed attending the biannual North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony last month, held at the beautiful Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.

Our First Crowdfunding Campaign

How has NCLR touched you? Your first story or poem publication? An interview or essay that brought serious critical attention to your writing? A review of your latest book—or a review that prompted you to read a really good book? An essay about a North Carolina writer you’d not heard of before, and now you’re reading their work?

Adams reviews Smith

Saturday Review: “A Wry Exploration of Middle-Aged Womanhood” a review by Heather Bell Adams forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Ridley Smith’s Sex Romp Gone Wrong 

Ovid Pierce ECU’s First Writer-in-Residence

“From “Gub’ner Green” to The Story of Cabbage Green: An Appreciation of the Writings of Ovid Williams Pierce, First Writer-in-Residence at East Carolina University” by Douglas J. McMillan from NCLR 16 (2007)

NCLR Releases Fourth Issue of the Year

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The Fall issue feature rounds out with pieces by Ashely Harris, Vivian Bikulege, Paula Gallant Eckard, and more. (Cover art by Nysie Hurst)

West reviews Seay

“‘how else not be lost'” by Robert M. West, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of James Seay’s’s Come! Come! Where? Where? (2024)