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“Resourceful” by Robert Morgan

January 24, 2025January 22, 2025
From The Archives

Friday from the Archives: Resourceful a poem by Robert Morgan by from NCLR Online 2017

Haspel reviews Ewen & Shields

January 18, 2025January 16, 2025
Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “Becoming the Lost Colony” a review by Donald Paul Haspel in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Charles R. Ewen and E. Thomson Shields Jr.’s book, Becoming the Lost Colony (2024

“A Love to Die For”

January 17, 2025February 3, 2025
From The Archives

Through this tale, we learn of the building passion between two friends who have just met. “And it was there, in the darkness before the rising of any moon, that Lamp looked deep into the eyes of the young man he had so carefully nurtured, whose love he had caused to grow the way a gardener grows fruit, and told him that he had a secret to reveal.”

NCLR Staff Continues to Expand

January 16, 2025January 21, 2025
Editors' Blog

Please say hello to Kristi and Rebecca, our two newest editors on the NCLR team!

Albright Creative Nonfiction Contest with Guest Judge Paul Crenshaw

January 15, 2025January 13, 2025
Current Calls for Submissions

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.

Cash reviews Moore

January 11, 2025April 2, 2025
Book Reviews

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

Love, Loss, and the Cats We Had

January 10, 2025January 8, 2025
From The Archives

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.