Flashbacks: In Fiction and To ’15
Continuing with our student interns’ selections, this week we have Keegan Holder’s pick. We look back at Michael Parker’s “A Mighty Pretty Blue”, published in our 2015 issue.
Continuing with our student interns’ selections, this week we have Keegan Holder’s pick. We look back at Michael Parker’s “A Mighty Pretty Blue”, published in our 2015 issue.
’22 Albright creative nonfiction winner and finalists will read at Scuppernong Books on Feb 9.
2022 was busy—as most years are for the NCLR staff. The start of a new year seems like a good time to look back on the old year and realize all that we accomplished in 2022, then look forward to what’s ahead in 2023.
The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce James Tate Hill as the judge for this year’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Competition. The annual prize is awarded to the best short creative nonfiction story by a North Carolina writer or set in North Carolina.
Miller posits “[the] connections emphasize the Faulknerian theme of Southern literature that the past is never fully gone. As past decisions and tragedies continue to reverberate, the very landscape contains a history of trauma.”
Graduate student Daniel Moreno choose one of the 2018 Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Honorable Mention winners: “In times as ideologically and politically charged as we find ourselves today, Angela Belcher Epps’s Sandhill: A Symphony of Souls is not just an incredibly refreshing read, but a sobering one as well.”
“The result is warm and respectful, even as the family in Meredith’s novel wrestles with the burdens of their personal and collective demons.”
This week’s “Friday from the Archives” is dedicated to Bertie E. Fearing, founding associate editor of NCLR and her love of cats and literature.
For the last Saturday Review in 2022, here is the first of the reviews forthcoming in the Winter 2023 online issue, due out in February:… Read More »Last Review of the Year, First from Winter 2023 Online Issue
Friday from the Archives: Read an interview with NCLR‘s Founding Editor Alex Albright in the 2002, 10th anniversary issue. Read the first page here. Buy… Read More »An Interview with Our Founding Editor