Laura Hope-Gill Named Winner of the 2023 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Announcing the winners and finalists of the 2023 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
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“Creating Tradition on the Qualla Boundary”
Friday from the Archives: “There’s Always A Story To Tell: Creating Tradition on the Qualla Boundary” by Karen McKinney from NCLR Issue 13 (2004) “What emerges is an example of Cherokee literature that is as traditional as the story of Selu’s gift of corn but unashamedly a product of the late twentieth century.”
Rerun: West reviews Keith Flynn’s “The Skin of Meaning”
In this review by Robert West from 2021, he says about Flynn’s last book, The Skin of Meaning: “In other words, if you’re looking for neoclassical argument, dry stand-up comedy, or inspirational pablum, look elsewhere.”
The Heart of the Stories We Share
Friday From The Archives: “Big Fish: The Myth and the Man” by Barbara Bennett from NCLR 2019 Online
Authors glean inspiration for their stories from all kinds of places. In Daniel Wallace’s latest, the memoir This Isn’t Going To End Well, his inspiration is his late brother-in-law. In this piece from 2019, Barbara Bennett takes us down a different road, seeing where mythology and storytelling served as inspiration for Wallace’s first novel, Big Fish.
Rerun: Coby reviews “Prairie Fever” by Michael Parker
So it’s fitting that Coby starts his review with “Michael Parker is a master at forming engaging, thought-provoking, and all around remarkable characters.”
Zelda Lockhart on Vulnerability and the Power of Stories
Friday from the Archives: “Freedom and Power: A Talk with Zelda Lockhart” by Sara Whitestone from NCLR Issue 21 (2012) “We don’t know who might need our creations. We don’t know who needs them for food, for medicine, or for kinship.”
Drumroll, please . . . the 2023 cover in all its glory
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya is an Indigenous artist from the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo tribes. She earned a BFA in printmaking… Read More »Drumroll, please . . . the 2023 cover in all its glory
A Daunting, but Successful First
Two years later, this beautiful issue has come together, and it is both what I imagined and different than what I imagined. Some pieces I solicited never came to fruition, and I received others that left me in awe of their brilliance.
“Taking Up The Mantle”: Murray reviews Native collection
“The last stanza likens women’s roles to a patchwork quilt: “The responsibility of being Native woman was placed upon / Her shoulders at birth, / Blanketed – like a patchwork quilt – around her body”
Meet NCLR staff at NCWN Spring Conference
Come see NCLR staff at the North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference in Greensboro on April 22.