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.
CFS: 2027 Southern Gothic in North Carolina Literature! Deadline is 8/31/26 for author interview pitches, scholarly critique ideas, or literary analysis! FICTION only accepted via Betts Fiction contest in October. Details: nclr.ecu.edu/2026/05/01/2...
June 10, 2026 at 2:49 PM
CFS: 2027 Southern Gothic in North Carolina Literature! Deadline is 8/31/26 for author interview pitches, scholarly critique ideas, or literary analysis! FICTION only accepted via Betts Fiction contest in October. Details: nclr.ecu.edu/2026/05/01/2...
NC POETS: we've extended the Applewhite Poetry Prize Contest a bit longer.
All you need to enter is to subscribe.
Details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/...
All you need to enter is to subscribe.
Details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/...
May 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
NC POETS: we've extended the Applewhite Poetry Prize Contest a bit longer.
All you need to enter is to subscribe.
Details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/...
All you need to enter is to subscribe.
Details: nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/...
Did we hear someone say it was National Library Week?
We adore all the libraries featuring local authors in their displays.
Libraries are a fantastic place to start your Read Local journey!
We adore all the libraries featuring local authors in their displays.
Libraries are a fantastic place to start your Read Local journey!
April 21, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Did we hear someone say it was National Library Week?
We adore all the libraries featuring local authors in their displays.
Libraries are a fantastic place to start your Read Local journey!
We adore all the libraries featuring local authors in their displays.
Libraries are a fantastic place to start your Read Local journey!
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Thank you to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this bonkers story as an honorable mention for the 2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!
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North Carolina Literary Review Online Spring 2026
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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April 15, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Thank you to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this bonkers story as an honorable mention for the 2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!
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Need some more good news today? Our Spring 2026 Issue is available to read now! 100 pages of North Carolina literary goodness. Click the cover here: nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
April 13, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Need some more good news today? Our Spring 2026 Issue is available to read now! 100 pages of North Carolina literary goodness. Click the cover here: nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
Our Winter '26 issue is now live! Check out all the book reviews (25 books!!) plus the amazing creative writing and the first of our Military Writing in North Carolina pieces! issuu.com/eastcarolina...
March 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Our Winter '26 issue is now live! Check out all the book reviews (25 books!!) plus the amazing creative writing and the first of our Military Writing in North Carolina pieces! issuu.com/eastcarolina...
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!
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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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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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April 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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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
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