North Carolina Literature into Film

"preserving the heart of [the story]":
Adapting North Carolina Literature for Film
section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

A Degree of Commitment
an essay by Charles Frazier
(selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)

“The Lost Colony Film”:
A Mixed Message of Violence and Peace
an essay by Larry E. Tise
Read the first page here.

Finding “The Lost Colony Film”
by Tom Whiteside

Black and White
a poem by James Applewhite
art by Paul J. Hartley

Paul Green and the Movies
an essay by Laurence G. Avery

A Hotel Tower Above Oahu
a poem by James Applewhite
art by Paul J. Hartley

Thomas Dixon, Filmmaker
an essay by Anthony Slide
Read the first page here.

The Case of the Missing Interracial Romance:
An Ideological Critique of Kiss the Girls
an essay by William B. Hart
Read the first page here.

Kiss the Girls’ Allusion to D.W. Griffith’s
Whitewashed Captivity Narrative
by Anna Froula

History v. Hollywood:
Civil Rights Meet Silver Screen;
or, “writing history with lightning”
an essay by Timothy B. Tyson
Read the first page here.

Discovering the Story: A Film Adaption of
Randall Kenan’s “The Foundations of the Earth”
an essay by Elisabeth Benfey
Read the first page here.

In the Same Gesture
an essay by Jim Grimsley
(selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)

A “passionate need to write”:
An Interview with Ellyn Bache
by Christy Alexander Hallberg
Read the first page here.

Writing Books that Hold Up,
from Pay Phones to Cell Phones:
An Interview with YA Suspense Novelist Lois Duncan
by Valerie O. Patterson

“reflections on a screen”: John Ehle and Film
an essay by Terry L. Roberts
and an alternate ending to The Changing of the Guard
by John Ehle
Read the first page here.

Ten North Carolina Stories that Ought to Be Films
an essay by George Hovis

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past ISSUES

• Returning Writers, Returning Genres
  section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

  Wind and Water: Marrying Fact and Fiction
  in The Watery Part of the World
  an essay by Michael Parker

  Gently Down the Stream
  an essay by Paul Crenshaw

  Picnic on the Waters
  a poem by James Applewhite
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)
  art by Bob Rankin

North Carolina Miscellany

• Fond Farewells and Other Miscellany
  section introduction by Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

  The Collector: On the Occasion of the Opening of the Stuart Wright Exhibit, Shining In and Out of Darkness, The Collector, and Latecomer
  an essay and three poems by Fred Chappell
  Read the first page here.

  Stuart Wright: The Collector
  by Thomas E. Douglass

  Whip-poor-will
  a poem by Robert Penn Warren
  from the Stuart Wright Collection
  art by A.R. Ammons

  Nighthawks
  a poem by John Thomas York

  Lamp, the first James Applewhite Poetry Prize poem
  by John Thomas York
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)
  art by Isaac Talley

  Boundaries, the 2011 Doris Betts Fiction Prize story
  by Thomas Wolf
  (received a "special mention" in the 2014 edition of Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses)
  art by Richard Garrison

  The Month of Janus and Time Pieces
  two poems by Mark Smith-Soto
  art by Bob Trotman and Barbara Fisher

  Perspective
  a poem by C.G. Thompson
  art by Jane Filer

  Freedom and Power: A Talk with Zelda Lockhart
  an interview by Sara Whitestone
  Read the first page here.

  If Not Birds Dodging Loneliness and Anointed Yet Badly Blessed
  two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
  art by Stephen Aubuchon

  Carolinese
  a poem by Glenis Gale Redmond
  (selected by the editors for a Pushcart nomination)
  art by David C. Driskell

  The Honey Wagon, the 2nd place story in the 2011 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition
  by Joseph Francis Cavano
  art by Donald Furst

  A Blessing on the Tongue
  a poem by Valerie Nieman
  art by Bridget Conn

  Forty Years Later
  a poem by Debra Kaufman
  art by Diana H. Bloomfield
  Hear the poet read this poem.