How has NCLR touched you? Your first story or poem publication? An interview or essay that brought serious critical attention to your writing? A review of your latest book—or a review that prompted you to read a really good book? An essay about a North Carolina writer you’d not heard of before, and now you’re reading their work?
Saturday Review: “A Wry Exploration of Middle-Aged Womanhood” a review by Heather Bell Adams forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Ridley Smith’s Sex Romp Gone Wrong
Find us in Greensboro and Durham the first weekend of November!
“From “Gub’ner Green” to The Story of Cabbage Green: An Appreciation of the Writings of Ovid Williams Pierce, First Writer-in-Residence at East Carolina University” by Douglas J. McMillan from NCLR 16 (2007)
The Fall issue feature rounds out with pieces by Ashely Harris, Vivian Bikulege, Paula Gallant Eckard, and more. (Cover art by Nysie Hurst)
The North Carolina Literary Review is accepting submissions for the 2023 Betts Fiction Competition from Sept 15-Oct 31.
“‘how else not be lost'” by Robert M. West, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of James Seay’s’s Come! Come! Where? Where? (2024)
Friday from the Archives: “Paul Green: A Professor of the Practice of Playwriting” an essay by Georgann Eubanks from NCLR 31 (2022)
“Emergency Salad Dressing” by Wendy Tilley, forthcoming in NCLR Online Fall 2024 of EnaJones’s Six Feet Below Zero (2021)
Friday from the Archives: “Get Ready for Green Fest”: a look back at a Paul Green essay in the 2012 issue’s feature of NC Literature into Film, in anticipation of an upcoming NCLR event