In NCLR Issue 13, published in 2004, professor Christina Bucher examined the poetry Murray wrote and published. Specifically, Bucher provides a scholarly look at the protest poems found in the singular volume published in 1970,
The North Carolina Literary Review releases its 2023 Winter online issue.
Editor Margaret Bauer will be a special guest on Wordplay on Asheville FM 103.3 on February 12, 2023, at 5:00.
McFadyen walks through two poetry collections, noting how “in their debut poetry collections, Alana Dagenhart and Cheryl Wilder survey death, tragedy, and family bonds with unwavering frankness.”
Friday from the Archives: “The Hope of “dark-night songs”: Music and Healing in Charles Frazier’s Nightwoods” by Paula Rawlins from North Carolina Literary Review Issue 30, 2021
Entzminger astutely points out that “One of the best aspects of the novel is this strong, believable, and fully developed female narrator, Abby Lovett, who is not seeking, nor does she find, a romantic partner.” How refreshing in today’s entertainment.
Cash reminisced about his time being a student of Gaines in an interview with George Hovis in our 2013 issue, released after his breakout debut novel _A Land More Kind Than Home_ received much acclaim in 2012.
The North Carolina Literary Review is accepting submissions for the 2023 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize. The deadline to submit is March 1 Find the full… Read More »2023 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Erin Miller Reid is the winner of the 2022 Doris Betts Fiction Prize for her story “Uncaged.”
Colley also points out that “By utilizing a Southern setting reminiscent of many American spaces, the novel somewhat radically stresses the similarities rather than the differences between the South and a broader culture.” In so doing, the book becomes accessible to everyone.