“The students produced over eighty single-space pages of notes, conversation, analysis, and insight. At sixty thousand words, they had written a book. And because our class read all of A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury their Dead, and If I Had Two Wings, they were often writing about stories that have been slighted or ignored by other literary critics.”
Saturday Review: “Moving Bodies, Healing Places” a review by J.S. Absher
Joseph Bathanti. Light at the Seam (2022)
Joseph Mills. Bodies in Motion (2022)
Monday, October 23, at Flyleaf in Chapel Hill: Hear Betts Prize honorees in Chapel Hill! Then submit your story to this year’s contest.
Friday from the Archives: “Night Light” 2006 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story by Rhonda Strickland, from NCLR Issue 16 (2007) Rhonda Strickland’s 2006 Doris Betts… Read More »First Betts Prize Story in NCLR
“Grimsley’s allusions to multiple sorts of 1970s queerness evidence his continued interest in parallel times and in terms that evoke the slippery and shifting interpretations and possibilities in our world….”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The North Carolina Literary Review 2023 feature is Native American Literature of North Carolina, guest edited by Dr. Kirstin L. Squint, and… Read More »Lumbee Literary Voices Featured in NCLR Online Fall 2023 Issue
Wrapping up the semester After imagining the massacre and coup in Marrow, reckoning with it in Wilmington’s Lie, and finally, recovering the stories in the… Read More »Field Trip to Wilmington
Wilmington Daily Record The final third of this blended course is actually a years-long project: recovering the history and stories of Black Wilmington before the… Read More »Weeks 11–15: Archival Research
The literary analysis unit ends with the students researching and writing a four-source annotated bibliography on scholarly articles that approach The Marrow of Tradition from… Read More »Weeks 1–5 Assignment
As the October 31 deadline for this year’s competition draws near, I find myself reflecting on some of the past winners and finalists we’ve published in the journal—such as Leah Hampton, Annie Frazier, Robert Wallace, Thomas Wolf, Heather Bell Adams, and last year’s winner, Erin Miller Reid—and on Doris Betts herself.