Tilley reviews Reinhardt
Saturday Review: “A New Playground,” a review by Wendy Tilley of Susan Reinhardt’s novel The Beautiful Misfits (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025
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Charles Chesnutt Found Again
Friday from the Archives: “Looking for Charles” the 2018 Albright Prize Second Place essay by Jennifer Harding in NCLR 28 (2019)
Take a chance on your work!
To submit your work is to be noticed – it can truly elevate your presence in the competitive world of literature.
Kesler reviews Hill
Saturday Review: “Good is Circumstantial” a review by Jon Kesler of Halle Hill’s short story collection Good Women Stories in NCLR Online Winter 2025
“Waiting for America” by Mendi Lewis Obadike
Friday from the Archives: “Waiting for America” and “Isaac in Durham” two poems by Mendi Lewis Obadike from NCLR 13 (2004)
Smith reviews Eubanks and Simpson
Saturday Review: “The Lands that Shape Us” a review by Evan Peter Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Georgann Eubanks’ Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction (2021) and Bland Simpson’s North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky (2021)
Moira Crone Paints New (Word) Pictures
Friday from the Archives: “The Cartography of Moira Crone: Mapping Visionary Fiction and Fantastic Futures,” the 2020 John Ehle Prize interview by Jim Grimsley from NCLR 29 (2020)
NCLR’s First 2025 Issue Introduces “LGBTQ+ Literature” Feature
The Winter online issue of the North Carolina Literary Review introduces the 2025 feature, LGBTQ+ Literature of North Carolina.
NCLR is a Living Laboratory
by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor On this Teaching Tuesday, and also just because I am so incredibly grateful, I want to celebrate NCLR’s Art Director,… Read More »NCLR is a Living Laboratory
Crone Reviews Orr
Saturday Review: “Bringing the Hidden into the Light” a review by Moira Crone in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (2025) novel