The North Carolina Literary Review is pleased to announce Paul Crenshaw 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.
Saturday Review: “Finding a Way Out; Finding Yourself,” a review by Olivia Cash of Marshall Moore’s I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
As we eagerly await our new batch of interns and assistants, we share a piece from Abby, one of our students who wrapped her internship last semester. The 1996 “Cats and Their Writers” feature remains a perennial favorite.
Greensboro’s Evan Fackler wins this year’s Betts Prize!
Saturday Review: “Snake in the Grass” a review by Barbara Bennett of Minrose Gwin’s novel, Beautiful Dreamers (2024) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Inspiration from the 2020 winner of the Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize Contest, before this year’s submission window opens!
Saturday Review: “Growing Up with Tobacco Truths” a review by Stephanie Whetstone of Adele Myers’s The Tobacco Wives: A Novel (2022), forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter… Read More »Whetstone reviews Myers
As we pass into the next calendar year, many of us have special traditions and rituals to mark this time’s passage. Claxton highlighted Clapsaddle’s Cherokee rituals in her essay from our 2023 print issue:
Saturday Review: “Dark Secrets of Carolina Girlhood” a review by Karin Zipf of Meagan Church’s novels The Girls We Sent Away and The Last Carolina Girl in NCLR Online Winter 2025
Friday from the Archives: “State Highway Historic Markers: Public Commemoration and Literary History” by Michael Hill from NCLR 2 (1993)
Looking for your next literary research subject? May we suggest riding around your town til you find a local literary highway historical marker? There are over a hundred around the state, in many unexpected places.