Saturday Review: “The Lands that Shape Us” a review by Evan Peter Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Georgann Eubanks’ Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction (2021) and Bland Simpson’s North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky (2021)
Friday from the Archives: “The Cartography of Moira Crone: Mapping Visionary Fiction and Fantastic Futures,” the 2020 John Ehle Prize interview by Jim Grimsley from NCLR 29 (2020)
The Winter online issue of the North Carolina Literary Review introduces the 2025 feature, LGBTQ+ Literature of North Carolina.
by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor On this Teaching Tuesday, and also just because I am so incredibly grateful, I want to celebrate NCLR’s Art Director,… Read More »NCLR is a Living Laboratory
Saturday Review: “Bringing the Hidden into the Light” a review by Moira Crone in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (2025) novel
Friday from the Archives: Resourceful a poem by Robert Morgan by from NCLR Online 2017
Saturday Review: “Becoming the Lost Colony” a review by Donald Paul Haspel in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Charles R. Ewen and E. Thomson Shields Jr.’s book, Becoming the Lost Colony (2024
Through this tale, we learn of the building passion between two friends who have just met. “And it was there, in the darkness before the rising of any moon, that Lamp looked deep into the eyes of the young man he had so carefully nurtured, whose love he had caused to grow the way a gardener grows fruit, and told him that he had a secret to reveal.”
Please say hello to Kristi and Rebecca, our two newest editors on the NCLR team!
The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce Paul Crenshaw as the judge for this year’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Competition. The annual prize is awarded to the best short creative nonfiction story by a North Carolina writer or set in North Carolina.