Friday from the Archives: “Trying to Find My Way Back Home to East Lake, North Carolina” an essay by Elena Tajima Creef from NCLR 14 (2005) “I begin to understand that in the end, the only things any of us can ever really leave behind for one another are the stories of our lives.”
I don’t know what made me grab Dawn Shamp’s 2008 novel _On Account of Conspicuous Women_ from the shelf where it was lying down among other books too tall for the height of the bookshelves.
Randall Kenan. Bertha Harris. David Sedaris. Allan Gurganus. Jim Grimsley. These are just a handful of North Carolina authors who write openly and passionately about… Read More »2025: NC LGBTQ+ Literature
Saturday Review: “Debut Novel By Carolina Newcomer Offers Thrill Ride” a review by Henry L. Wilson of Bark On by Mason Boyles (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Friday from the Archives: “We Were Whole Again: Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon” by Mary Ann Wilson from NCLR 8 (1999)
by Shelby Hans
Saturday Review: “Swamp Girls In Trouble: Class, Race, and The Patriarchy In The Prohibition-era South” a review by Dennis R. Turner, Jr. of The Girls in the Stilt House. by Kelly Mustian (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Friday from the Archives: “Lamp” by John Thomas York, the first Applewhite Prize winning poem from NCLR 21 (2012)
Join us for a celebration of the ’23 issue with authors Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and Mary Leauna Christensen in Cherokee, NC!
Saturday Review: “Tripping on the Twelve Steps” a review by Sharon Colley of Bewilderness by Karen Tucker (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024
Friday from the Archives: “what poetry can do and how it can do it”: An Interview with NCLR’s Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin by James Smith from NCLR 16 (2007)
Have you submitted to either of our April poetry contests yet? If your written poem is chosen by our group of first-pass readers, it will then go to our long-standing Poetry Editor Jeff Franklin for review.