The North Carolina Literary Review is excited to announce the winners of three honors given for content in our issues: the Paul Green Prize, the John… Read More »Prize-Winning Content Forthcoming in the 2022 North Carolina Literary Review Issues
Saturday Review in 2022: Read Helen Stead’s review of Jason Mott’s National Book Award winning novel! NCLR Editor Margaret Bauer will be teaching this novel… Read More »Jason Mott’s National Book Award Novel
Friday from the Archives: Read Barbara Bennett’s essay on teaching Jill McCorkle’s novel Ferris Beach to high school students. Then think about “Teaching NC Literature.”
Saturday Review in 2022: Read Laura Hope-Gill’s review of Blind Man’s Bluff by James Tate Hill, a memoir in which the author shares his experience… Read More »A review by Laura Hope-Gill
For this Friday from the archives, we remember Richard Krawiec’s moving, provocative (and particularly timely this week) play “Lovers,” published in NCLR 2009 (with art… Read More »A Play by Richard Krawiec
We already shared Dale Bailey’s Winter 2022 issue book review, but today’s Independent Bookstore Day, and his review features photos from some of North Carolina’s… Read More »Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
Since tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day, our Friday from the Archives features Cynthia Lewis’s 2016 essay about book clubs, which features bookstores. Read the first… Read More »Upcoming Independent Bookstore Day!
Saturday Review in 2022: Read Sharon E. Colley’s review of the 2021 Lee Smith Novel Prize winner, The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather… Read More »A review by Sharon E. Colley
Friday from the Archives with NCLR Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin in town, we’re giving away 2007 issues featuring an interview with him. Back issues can… Read More »What Poetry Can Do
“What would Lee Roberts think of his son Terry’s latest novel? Set on Ellis Island, it is a hard-boiled detective thriller, the type of book Mr. Roberts was addicted to, short chapters and all.