Cinderella in the Swamp
Friday from the Archives: “The Patchwork Princess of the Great Dismal Swamp” a short story written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Molly Windsor in NCLR 2006
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NC Writers’ Network Conference
Join us for the NC Writers’ Network Spring Conference.
2026: Saluting Veterans’ Writing
This special feature section of NCLR seeks to bridge the gap between military personnel and civilians by celebrating veteran writers and their impacts on literary and cultural studies.
Robert reviews Martin
Saturday Review: “The Images That Made Us” a review by Terry Roberts of Brent Martin’s book George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
2014 Applewhite Winner Elizabeth Jackson
Friday from the Archives: “East End, West End,” the 2014 James Applewhite Poetry Prize Winner by Elizabeth W. Jackson in NCLR 2015
McGaha reviews Sedaris
Saturday Review: “Have No Fear: David Sedaris is Still Here” a review by Jennifer McGaha of David Sedaris’ collection Happy-Go-Lucky in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Remembering George Moses Horton
Friday from the Archives: “The Verses from our Pen to him Belong” National Identity in the Political Homages of George Moses Horton” an essay by Justin Williams in NCLR 28 (2019)
Godwin reviews Claxton and Frizzel
Saturday Review: “‘What the mountains and forests did for me’: A Fine Collection of Kephart’s Words” a review by Rebecca Godwin of Mae Miller Claxton and George Frizzel’s collection Horace Kephart: Writings in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Albright Reading at Country Bookshop
Join us for the Albright Reading in Southern Pines.
Stephanie Powell Watts on Generational Change
Friday from the Archives: “Leaving Home to Return Home: Writing North Carolina Homeplace from the Particular to the Universal, an Interview with Stephanie Powell Watts” by DeLisa D. Hawkes and Maia L. Butler in NCLR 28 (2019)