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
“Jeffrey Franklin still finds his figures of poet and homely muse in the fields and healing woods of North Carolina.”
Applewhite poem “Christmas by the River” from NCLR 2003
“As she works through her memories of the past and her love for Mattie, Goldman asks, and answers, a number of smaller mysteries.”