North Carolina Literary Review
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The mission of NCLR is to preserve and promote North Carolina’s rich literary culture: new and emerging writers; forgotten authors; literary crit, interviews, book reviews, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. NC Artists, too.
Are you hanging out by the fire and need something to read on this cold wintry day (at least here in NC)? We suggest you check out the latest issue of NCLR Online!
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December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Are you hanging out by the fire and need something to read on this cold wintry day (at least here in NC)? We suggest you check out the latest issue of NCLR Online!
nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
Our 2026 Special Feature "Saluting Military Writing" closes on 8/31!! Anyone who is 1) an #NCwriter and 2) active duty/veteran/family member writing about #military service can submit! #Fiction goes through the upcoming Betts Prize contest. All the details: nclr.submittable.com/submit
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Please read our complete submissions guidelines before submitting. Categories are active (i.e, genre/section submission categories are visible) during the submission period.If you have difficulty maki...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Our 2026 Special Feature "Saluting Military Writing" closes on 8/31!! Anyone who is 1) an #NCwriter and 2) active duty/veteran/family member writing about #military service can submit! #Fiction goes through the upcoming Betts Prize contest. All the details: nclr.submittable.com/submit
2026 Feature Call for Submission CLOSES 8/31! Accepting interviews and literary criticism by and about North Carolina writers who have served or are in the military or who write about their experiences related to loved ones' military service. More details at nclr.submittable.com/submit
August 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
2026 Feature Call for Submission CLOSES 8/31! Accepting interviews and literary criticism by and about North Carolina writers who have served or are in the military or who write about their experiences related to loved ones' military service. More details at nclr.submittable.com/submit
New Editors' Blogpost, this month by our 2026 Guest Feature Editor Anna Froula!
"All veterans are humanists in one way or another, having lived, if also not lost the extremes of human experience."
Read: nclr.ecu.edu/2025/06/16/v...
"All veterans are humanists in one way or another, having lived, if also not lost the extremes of human experience."
Read: nclr.ecu.edu/2025/06/16/v...
Their Own Voice, Their Own Words – North Carolina Literary Review
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June 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New Editors' Blogpost, this month by our 2026 Guest Feature Editor Anna Froula!
"All veterans are humanists in one way or another, having lived, if also not lost the extremes of human experience."
Read: nclr.ecu.edu/2025/06/16/v...
"All veterans are humanists in one way or another, having lived, if also not lost the extremes of human experience."
Read: nclr.ecu.edu/2025/06/16/v...
Working on this week's Friday from the Archives and wishing I could go back in time to Black Mountain College's heydey. What's a literary time travel location for you?
June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Working on this week's Friday from the Archives and wishing I could go back in time to Black Mountain College's heydey. What's a literary time travel location for you?
As someone who once featured Cats of North Carolina Writers in an issue, we are fur-scinated by this.
Paws-itively thrilled to share that my review of Marx for Cats is out now in Lateral! @lclaberge.bsky.social’s book is purr-fectly provocative — don’t miss it! csalateral.org/reviews/marx...
Rachael Mulvihill, "Review of Marx for Cats by Leigh Claire La Berge (Duke University Press)" - Lateral
Leigh Claire La Berge’s Marx for Cats reimagines the history of capitalism by analyzing archival documentation about felines. By updating bestiaries to include contemporary criticism of capitalism, La...
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May 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
As someone who once featured Cats of North Carolina Writers in an issue, we are fur-scinated by this.
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We love Daniel Wallace interviews.
"Short stories are the bomb."
Honestly, we think so too! Check out this great interview with Daniel Wallace on his new short story collection, BENEATH THE MOON AND LONG DEAD STARS. @bullcitypress.com
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Honestly, we think so too! Check out this great interview with Daniel Wallace on his new short story collection, BENEATH THE MOON AND LONG DEAD STARS. @bullcitypress.com
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“Beneath the Moon and Long Dead Stars”: An Interview with Daniel Wallace
People are capable of a complicated and probably infinite range of feelings: between good and bad, happy and sad… however briefly, and however brief, these stories can take you to some of the…
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May 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We love Daniel Wallace interviews.
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I’m thrilled to announce my poem, “Nadiya Becomes a Sonnet” is in the current Spring 2025 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review. @nclitreview.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce my poem, “Nadiya Becomes a Sonnet” is in the current Spring 2025 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review. @nclitreview.bsky.social
North Carolina Literary Review Online Spring 2025
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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I’m thrilled to announce my poem, “Nadiya Becomes a Sonnet” is in the current Spring 2025 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review. @nclitreview.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce my poem, “Nadiya Becomes a Sonnet” is in the current Spring 2025 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review. @nclitreview.bsky.social
NCLR Online Spring 2025 is NOW AVAILABLE!
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Tell us your favorite piece (and it can totally be your own!), since we're partial to every single page. Help us celebrate releasing our second Spring issue ever!
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Tell us your favorite piece (and it can totally be your own!), since we're partial to every single page. Help us celebrate releasing our second Spring issue ever!
April 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NCLR Online Spring 2025 is NOW AVAILABLE!
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nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
Tell us your favorite piece (and it can totally be your own!), since we're partial to every single page. Help us celebrate releasing our second Spring issue ever!
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nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
Tell us your favorite piece (and it can totally be your own!), since we're partial to every single page. Help us celebrate releasing our second Spring issue ever!
Congrats to former NCLR intern @inacarino.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from @poetrysociety.org !
April 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Congrats to former NCLR intern @inacarino.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from @poetrysociety.org !
CALLING ALL POETS! If you hail from NC, we'd love to hear from you for either or both of our POETRY PRIZE competitions! Winners get automatic publication AND a cash prize! Check out all the details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/ (and please share!)
April 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
CALLING ALL POETS! If you hail from NC, we'd love to hear from you for either or both of our POETRY PRIZE competitions! Winners get automatic publication AND a cash prize! Check out all the details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/ (and please share!)
"Asked to speak on “the renaissance of North Carolina literature,” my reaction had been: what renaissance? How
can you have a renaissance when there has never been a waning?" -- Our dear Editor Margaret Bauer, in our 2013 issue. 😍
can you have a renaissance when there has never been a waning?" -- Our dear Editor Margaret Bauer, in our 2013 issue. 😍
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Asked to speak on “the renaissance of North Carolina literature,” my reaction had been: what renaissance? How
can you have a renaissance when there has never been a waning?" -- Our dear Editor Margaret Bauer, in our 2013 issue. 😍
can you have a renaissance when there has never been a waning?" -- Our dear Editor Margaret Bauer, in our 2013 issue. 😍
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Happy Pub Day to UNCG Creative Writing faculty member Xhenet Aliu! EVERYBODY SAYS IT'S EVERYTHING launches today from Random House buff.ly/LoI1HuF #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere @mfagreensboro.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Happy Pub Day to UNCG Creative Writing faculty member Xhenet Aliu! EVERYBODY SAYS IT'S EVERYTHING launches today from Random House buff.ly/LoI1HuF #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere @mfagreensboro.bsky.social
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Happy Pub Day to UNCG Creative Writing alum Carole Boston Weatherford! RAP IT UP! launches today from Henry Holt & Co. buff.ly/vFCEd7o #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere @mfagreensboro.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Happy Pub Day to UNCG Creative Writing alum Carole Boston Weatherford! RAP IT UP! launches today from Henry Holt & Co. buff.ly/vFCEd7o #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere @mfagreensboro.bsky.social
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🎉🏆 BIG NEWS! 🏆🎉
Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music! 🎸📖
We’re also honored to be finalists in the Arts and Fiction categories!
#AmericanWritingAwards @pantheonpodcasts.bsky.social #rocknovels
Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music! 🎸📖
We’re also honored to be finalists in the Arts and Fiction categories!
#AmericanWritingAwards @pantheonpodcasts.bsky.social #rocknovels
March 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🎉🏆 BIG NEWS! 🏆🎉
Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music! 🎸📖
We’re also honored to be finalists in the Arts and Fiction categories!
#AmericanWritingAwards @pantheonpodcasts.bsky.social #rocknovels
Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music! 🎸📖
We’re also honored to be finalists in the Arts and Fiction categories!
#AmericanWritingAwards @pantheonpodcasts.bsky.social #rocknovels
UPDATE!! Joining winner Ashlen will be UNC Professor of Creative Nonfiction Stephanie Elizondo Griest (who also happens to be Ashlen's former professor!). We are so excited to listen to these two read and have a lively Q&A about their creative work. (and hope Ashley Harris gets well quickly!)
February 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
UPDATE!! Joining winner Ashlen will be UNC Professor of Creative Nonfiction Stephanie Elizondo Griest (who also happens to be Ashlen's former professor!). We are so excited to listen to these two read and have a lively Q&A about their creative work. (and hope Ashley Harris gets well quickly!)
Creative Nonfiction Writers!! Come hear a couple of last year's Albright winners and finalists and get all your questions answered about our contest, this Saturday 2/22 in Southern Pines! Details: ticketmesandhills.com/events/alex-...
February 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Creative Nonfiction Writers!! Come hear a couple of last year's Albright winners and finalists and get all your questions answered about our contest, this Saturday 2/22 in Southern Pines! Details: ticketmesandhills.com/events/alex-...
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ICYMI: EVERYBODY SAYS IT'S EVERYTHING, the latest novel from UNCG Creative Writing faculty member Xhenet Aliu is now available for pre-order from Random House https://buff.ly/4eFjWld @mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
February 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICYMI: EVERYBODY SAYS IT'S EVERYTHING, the latest novel from UNCG Creative Writing faculty member Xhenet Aliu is now available for pre-order from Random House https://buff.ly/4eFjWld @mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
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ICYMI - YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, the debut novel by UNCG Creative Writing alum Katie Naymon is now available for pre-order from Hatchette Book Group https://buff.ly/4iHh3U6
@mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
@mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
February 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICYMI - YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, the debut novel by UNCG Creative Writing alum Katie Naymon is now available for pre-order from Hatchette Book Group https://buff.ly/4iHh3U6
@mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
@mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
Spoken Word Artists!! Mark your calendars for April! The Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Contest is for you! Details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/...
February 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Spoken Word Artists!! Mark your calendars for April! The Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Contest is for you! Details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/...
THIS JUST IN: Albright Creative Nonfiction Contest Winners/Finalists reading will be Saturday Feb 22nd at 2pm at The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines! More details soon!
February 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
THIS JUST IN: Albright Creative Nonfiction Contest Winners/Finalists reading will be Saturday Feb 22nd at 2pm at The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines! More details soon!
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@thehometownholler.bsky.social podcast welcomes authors Belle Boggs & Sylvester Allen Jr. to discuss the life and legacy of Wyatt Outlaw, the first African American to serve as Town Commissioner and Constable of Graham, NC.
➡️ Watch for their Ferris and Ferris Book, coming Fall '25 from UNC Press ⬅️
➡️ Watch for their Ferris and Ferris Book, coming Fall '25 from UNC Press ⬅️
The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw w/ Belle Boggs and Sylvester Allen Jr.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@thehometownholler.bsky.social podcast welcomes authors Belle Boggs & Sylvester Allen Jr. to discuss the life and legacy of Wyatt Outlaw, the first African American to serve as Town Commissioner and Constable of Graham, NC.
➡️ Watch for their Ferris and Ferris Book, coming Fall '25 from UNC Press ⬅️
➡️ Watch for their Ferris and Ferris Book, coming Fall '25 from UNC Press ⬅️
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Happy Pub Day to UNCG Creative Writing alum Carole Boston Weatherford! If Kamala Can: . . . You Can Too! launches today from Sourcebooks https://buff.ly/3P2uNvc @mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
February 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy Pub Day to UNCG Creative Writing alum Carole Boston Weatherford! If Kamala Can: . . . You Can Too! launches today from Sourcebooks https://buff.ly/3P2uNvc @mfagreensboro.bsky.social #UNCGAlumni #UNCGEnglish #UNCG #UNCGWay #FindYourWayHere
Apropos of nothing much: nclr.ecu.edu/2023/10/17/c...
Curing Amnesia: Teaching a YA Novel about the 1898 Coup d’etat in North Carolina – North Carolina Literary Review
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February 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Apropos of nothing much: nclr.ecu.edu/2023/10/17/c...