Our 2023 Issue is NOW AVAILABLE
With both an historic feature section and the first guest feature editor, the 2023 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review available now is one to celebrate.
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Rerun: Hamer on Price
Saturday Review: “The Tao of Disability” by Mike Hamer in NCLR Vol 2. Iss. 2. (1995)
A review of A Whole New Life by Reynolds Price (1994)
Over the summer, we’re sharing some reruns of older book reviews.
“Disability, whenever it comes, is always a mystery.”
David Joy to Judge Next Betts Fiction Contest
David Joy will judge the next Doris Betts Fiction Contest, co-sponsored by NCLR and NCWN.
Edgerton’s All-purpose Imagination
Friday from the Archives: “Renaissance Man: An Interview with Clyde Edgerton” by George Hovis, from NCLR Issue 26 (2017)
In 2016, George Hovis interviewed Clyde Edgerton that not only highlights Edgerton’s repeated success in multiple artistic mediums, but also gives us a deep dive into the author’s philosophy about creativity.
Rerun: Mason on Morgan & Owens
Saturday Review: “The Regional Poet and the World” a review by Karen K. Mason in NCLR Online 2013
Robert Morgan. October Crossing (2009) and Terroir (2011)
Scott Owens. Something Knows the Moment (2011) and For One Who Knows How to Own Land (2012)
“These Extraordinary Price Brothers”
Friday from the Archives: “A Glimpse of these ‘Extraordinary Price Brothers’: James W. Clark interviews William S. Price” excerpt, from NCLR Online 2016.
Janis Harrington Wins 2023 Applewhite Poetry Contest
The 2023 Applewhite winner is Janis Harrington. Michael White and Debra Kaufman were also chosen.
An Inspirational Job for A Writing Student
“Whether I was collaborating with interns to edit an interview transcription, reaching out to local bookstores for images of North Carolina authors at events for book reviews, or attending events for NCLR at ECU, working for NCLR was one of the most exciting jobs I’ve had. Period.”
Rerun: Daughtridge on Gardner & Hopes
Saturday Review: “Always Timely, No Matter The Time” a review by Ashley Daughtridge in NCLR Online 2021.
Kati Gardner. Brave Enough (2018)
David Brendan Hopes. The Falls of Wyona: A Novel (2019)
Daughtridge starts the review stating, “Though taking place over half a century apart, both [books] upend prejudicial stigmas related to current social issues:”
Wright Collection is a “Southern Literary Hall of Fame”
Friday from the Archives: “The Collector: On the Occasion of the Opening of the Stuart Wright Exhibit” by Fred Chappell from NCLR 21 (2012).
When the Stuart Wright Collection opened at Joyner Library in 2012, author Fred Chappell, in his speech to commemorate the occasion, was well aware of how important the collection was: “it is the definitive collection of Southern literature from World War I to the mid-1980s…”