The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR), produced at East Carolina University, publishes interviews and literary criticism about North Carolina writers and high-quality poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction by North Carolina writers or set in North Carolina. Our definition of a North Carolina writer is anyone who currently lives in North Carolina, has lived in North Carolina, or uses North Carolina as subject matter.
A cross between a scholarly journal and a literary magazine, NCLR has won numerous awards and citations, including five from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals: the Best New Journal award in 1994, the Best Journal Design award in 1999 and 2010, the Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement in 2007, and the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement in 2014.
Latest News
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NCLR First 2024 Issue Introduces “NC Disability Literature” Feature
The first of now four issues, the Winter Online issue of North Carolina Literary Review starts the 2024 feature “North Carolina Disability Literature” with our Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize winning story “The Weight of Light” by writer and cover artist Laura Hope-Gill, along with four other stories and book reviews.
Current Call for Submissions
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2025: NC LGBTQ+ Literature
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 queer identities, issues, and joy. Whether explored through characters, journalism, memoir, poetry, drama, or other genres, these writers – along with other emerging or overlooked NC artists we hope to…
Upcoming Events
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NC Writers Network Spring Conference
NCLR will have a booth at the NCWN Spring Conference in Greensboro.
From the Archives
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More from the Dark Water: Lumbee Women’s Poetry
Friday from the Archives: “The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry” by Jessica Cory from NCLR 32 (2023).
Book Reviews
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Absher reviews Harrington and Barasovska
Saturday Review: “Found Magic” a review by J.S. Absher in NCLR Online Winter 2024 Joan Barasovska. Orange Tulips (2022) Janis Harrington. How to Cut a Woman in Half (2022)
Editors’ Blog
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Thomas Wolfe Society Welcomes Clyde Edgerton Home to Durham
This month, a blog post from one of our longtime editorial board members: “I suspected that perhaps I was being made the butt of some Kafkaesque joke, but here I was, so I tapped on the door and was instructed by a voice brimming with barely suppressed laughter to ‘come on in.’”—George Hovis
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