Remembering NC’s Native Tribes
Friday from the Archives: “Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, Writer” by Marjorie Hudson from NCLR 1 (1992).
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It’s always in the details
We focused on the often taken for granted bits and bobs involved in magazine publication. These may not be the concrete details that make us fall in love with a piece of writing, but they are the details of publishing layout and design that allow readers to immerse themselves in that very dream.
Kirkland reviews Owens
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”….
NCLR Receives TWO Grants
North Carolina Literary Review gratefully announces receiving two grants toward community engagement from two prestigious state-wide funders
Remembering Mark Smith-Soto
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.
NCLR returns to SAMLA in 2023
Our 2023 and 2024 Feature Editors will be at SAMLA 95!
Knotts reviews Faladé
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)
A Bifurcated Existence: Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
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.
Meet NCLR staff at NCWN Fall Conference
Join Editor Margaret Bauer and Digital Editor Devra Thomas at the North Carolina Writers’ Network fall conference in Charlotte, NC THIS WEEKEND.
Clark reviews Maginnes
Saturday Review: “On the Bus with Al Maginnes” a review by Barbara Bennett of Fellow Survivors (2023)