NORTH CAROLINA APPALACHIAN LITERATURE

• The Land Breakers, a novel excerpt by John Ehle art by Will Henry Stevens
• "wonderfully simple, yet complex": The Mountain Novels of John Ehle, by Terry Roberts art by Will Henry Stevens
• Love Affairs and Family Feuds in the Smoky Mountains, an Ehle review by Jonathan Yardley
• Lion on the Hearth, a novel excerpt by John Ehle
• Cry Naked, Purple Hands, Dew, and Listening to Clouds, four poems by Robert Morgan art by Will Henry Stevens
• Robert Morgan’s Peripheral Vision: "the point beside the point" in The Hinterlands, by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt photography by Horace Kephart
• As If She Listened, a poem by Laurence Avery
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination) photography by Horace Kephart
• "We’re still here": Eddie Swimmer on Cherokee History, Life, and Outdoor Drama in the Appalachian Mountains, an interview by Gina Caison
• The Gathering, a poem by Joyce Compton Brown
• "what I feel I was put on the planet to do": An interview with Wayne Caldwell, by Jerry Leath Mills
• Looking Back into the Undergrowth, a review of Wayne Caldwell’s two novels, by Chris Green
• Ron Rash’s Serena and the "blank and pitiless gaze" of Exploitation in Appalachia, by Joyce Compton Brown with Mark Powell photography by Horace Kephart
• "Look here, world, look who this woman [is]": Silas House Interviews Pamela Duncan, introduced by Joyce Compton Brown
• Drought Days, a poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer art by Noyes Capehart
• Hook and Eye, a short story by Kathryn Stripling Byer photography by Rob Amberg
• Mountain Tunes and Tartini Violin Concertos, a review of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s new novel, by Mae Miller Claxton
• Into a Strange Country, a review of Tony Earley’s Jim sequel, by Tim Edwards art by Will Henry Stevens
• Praise Poem for Our Mountains, a poem by doris davenport photography by doris davenport
• Resplendent, Ingenious Forms, a review of Fred Chappell’s new poetry collection, by John Lang art by Will Henry Stevens
• The Poetry of Southern Appalachia, a review by Jeffrey Franklin photography by Rob Bousa
• Sorry, a poem by Michael McFee art by Will Henry Stevens
• Controlled Burn, a short story by Charles Dodd White photography by Rob Amberg
• A Cozy Conspiracy, a review of Kenneth Butcher’s The Middle of the Air, by F. Brett Cox photography by Rob Amberg
• Breaking Line, creative nonfiction by Christopher Wrenn
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)photography by Rob Amberg
• Blind Faith, the 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story, by David McGuirt photography by John Rosenthal and Rob Amberg

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past ISSUES

• 2009 R. Hunt Parker Award Winner Bland Simpson Presents New Hardee-Rives Dramatic Arts Award
• In a Green Shade and Sunset Limited, two poems by Lyn Lifshin art by Romare Bearden
• Telling Stories of Slavery, a review by David A. Davis
• Two North Carolina Reconstruction Novels, a review by Susan Prothro Wright
• Other Times and Places and Down Home, a review of recent science fiction by North Carolina authors, by Warren Rochelle

North Carolina Miscellany

• Blossoming Poplars, Unpublished Interview, Repairing the Farmhouse, The Home Place, and Along the Ridge, five poems by James Applewhite
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination) art by Paul Hartley
• Platform, a 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition finalist, by Steve Mitchell
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)
  art by Richard Garrison

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• Summer Haze, a poem by Daniel Saalfeld art by David Terry
• Waiting for Azrael, a 2009 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition finalist, by Melanie Raskin
  art by Kelly L. Adams

Hear the author read from the story.

• Water Signs, a poem by Sandra Ann Winters
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)art by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick
• On Being Exposed: Body as Witness in Gail Godwin’s The Perfectionists, an essay by Renae R. Applegate House
• Bird Lore and Sidewalk Pennies, two poems by Lynda Self art by Tina Bromberg
• Three Women Writers Share Journeys of Achievement, a review by Rebecca L. Godwin illustration by Daniel Wallace
• Redneck Ballerina, A Case for The Rest of Us, creative nonfiction by Megan Mayhew Bergman photography by Charles S. Killebrew
• The Buck and In the Golden Valley, two poems by Henry Kearney, IV art by David Terry
• Wells Tower: An "engaged life," an interview by Matthew Martin
• Images of Childhood, a review of two poetry collections, by Felicia Mitchell with Lorraine Hale Robinson
• Wanda Canada’s Coastal Crimes, an interview by Art Taylor photography by Doug Kazantzis