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number 21 2012
cover design Dana Ezzell Gay
cover photographyMary Shannon Johnstone
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"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
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
The Case of the Missing Interracial Romance:
An Ideological Critique of Kiss the Girls
an essay by William B. Hart
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
Discovering the Story: A Film Adaption of
Randall Kenan’s “The Foundations of the Earth”
an essay by Elisabeth Benfey
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
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
Ten North Carolina Stories that Ought to Be Films
an essay by George Hovis
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
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
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
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