Reading NC Fiction Old and New
Fiction Editor Rebecca Bernard talks NC fiction, past, present, and future.
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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.
Thomas reviews Crenshaw
Saturday Review: “Fear and Hope in the 1980s” a review by Elaine Thomas in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Paul Crenshaw’s memoir Melt With Me (2023)
Ehle and Kenan Prizes Winners in NCLR 2025
This year’s Ehle Prize goes to Katherine Henninger and the Kenan Prize belongs to Anna Creadick.
“The Fence and The Bridge”
Friday from the Archives: “Writing the Great War: Ron Rash and Terry Roberts Discuss World War I, the North Carolina German Internment Camp, and the Historical Novel” an interview by Zackary Vernon in NCLR 2014
Tilley reviews Miranda
Saturday Review: “The Things We Feared” a review by Wendy Tilley in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Megan Miranda’s novel, Such a Quiet Place (2021)
Susan Wilson of Clemmons Wins the ’25 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Congratulations to Susan Wilson, our Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner for 2025, and the runners up and other finalists!
Cold Springs, NC, 2163
Friday from the Archives: “Interviews in Cold Springs, North Carolina” a story by Warren Rochelle illustrated by Lali in NCLR 2001
Corya reviews Kingfisher
Saturday Review: “Feminism in Dark Fairy Tales,” a review by Kenly Corya of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone (2022) and A Sorceress Comes to Call (2024) in… Read More »Corya reviews Kingfisher
Revisiting “Dream Boy” on Reprint
Friday from the Archives: “Dream Boy: Jim Grimsley’s Gothic Gospel” by Ed Madden with photography by W. Cameron Dennis and Mary Thiessen in NCLR 2000