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Saturday Review: “Poems of Hope and Redemption” a review by James W. Kirkland of Scott Owens’s Prepositional (2022) in NCLR Online Fall 2023.
With poems like “The Problem with Deciding on a Single Object to Follow the Preposition”….
North Carolina Literary Review gratefully announces receiving two grants toward community engagement from two prestigious state-wide funders
Friday from the Archives: “Last Retreat to Topsail Island” by Mark Smith-Soto from NCLR 22 (2013). We at NCLR were saddened to learn of the passing of long-time friend and poet, Mark Smith-Soto, early in November.
Our 2023 and 2024 Feature Editors will be at SAMLA 95!
Saturday Review: “A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past” a review by Kristina L. Knotts of David Wright Faladé’s Black Cloud Rising (2022)
In this article from NCLR’s 2015 issue Rachael Price analyses Monique Truong’s novel Bitter in the Mouth and the difficulties that the main character, Linda, faces growing up and discovering her own identity in what at first appears to be a conventional Southern family.
Join Editor Margaret Bauer and Digital Editor Devra Thomas at the North Carolina Writers’ Network fall conference in Charlotte, NC THIS WEEKEND.
Saturday Review: “On the Bus with Al Maginnes” a review by Barbara Bennett of Fellow Survivors (2023)
Friday from the Archives: “Halloween’s Herald of Democracy: Allan Gurganus and the Horror Show of American Politics” by Zackary Vernon from NCLR 2014 Recently the… Read More »Halloween with Allan Gurganus