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“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die”
an excerpt from A Short Time to Stay Here
by Terry Roberts
The Circuit Rider in a Sable Suit
John Milliken Thompson, Love and Lament
a review by Alison Arant
The Great War Inspires Two Great Novels
Constructive Remorse
Gail Godwin, Flora: A Novel
a review by Peggy Dunn Baily
Ragan Old North State Award for Civil War–Era Biography
For Doris
an essay by Michael McFee
art by Maurice Sendak
Hanging on by a Thread
Doris Betts, The Scarlet Thread
a review by Tara Powell
We Are All in It
an essay by Fred Chappell
A Last Glimpse of the Traveler
a poem by Fred Chappell
A Poem Has Happened Here
Susan Laughter Meyers, My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass
a review by Fred Chappell
Kathryn Stripling Byer, Former NC Poet Laureate Receives Second Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award
To Catch Big Fish: Advice from the Poet and
No Ordinary Birdsong
two poems by Susan Laughter Meyers
art by Ray Elmore
Guests on Earth, Eternal Strangers, and Lost Souls
Lee Smith, Guests on Earth: A Novel
a review by John Hough, Jr.
Attend the Tales of Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus, Local Souls
a review by Gary Richards
The End Before the End
Jill McCorkle, Life After Life
a review by Barbara Bennett
“The clock is ticking”
Robert Inman, The Governor’s Lady
a review by Anna Dunlap Higgins
The Water Calls You: An Interview
with Anjail Rashida Ahmad
by Amber Flora Thomas
photography by Dale Foshe
Honeysuckle and It Must Be All Right
two poems by Joan McLean
art by Linda Andrea Fox
Soul-Making Short Fiction
Rebecca Lee, Bobcat and Other Stories
Peter Makuck, Allegiance and Betrayal: Stories
a review by Kristina L. Knotts
Economy
creative nonfiction by Kelly Clancy
photography by Hans Curt Pfalzgraf
Uranium Field
creative nonfiction by Jen Julian
Flashing onto the Scene
Katey Schultz, Flashes of War
a review by Ron Jackson
Of Lions and Sparrows
a short story by Seth Peavey
art by George Scott
Samm-Art Williams Is the Fourth Recipient of the Hardee Rives Dramatic Arts Award
award presentation remarks by Lorraine Hale Robinson
Blue Bottles
a poem by Glenis Gale Redmond
art by Vollis Simpson
“The Cruel Radiance of What Is”
Jeffrey Beam, The Broken Flower: Poems
Keith Flynn, Colony Collapse Disorder
a review by Jim Clark
Odds Favor At Random
Lee Zacharias, At Random
a review by Tanya Long Bennett
Mystery Writers Receive NC Literary Awards
It’s Complicated
Dale Neal, The Half-Life of Home
a review by Sharon E. Colley
Myers Park Misery
Wilton Barnhardt, Lookaway, Lookaway
a review by Jim McGavran
Words, Water, Wonder
Philip Gerard, The Patron Saint of Dreams and other Essays
Philip Gerard, Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina
a review by Brian Glover
Savoring the Literary Landscape of Eastern North Carolina
Georgann Eubanks, Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook
a review by Lorraine Hale Robinson
photography by Donna Campbell
Available Beauty
a poem by Robert M. Wallace
art by Kenneth Noland
Near Matter and the Distant Stars
Kathy Ackerman, Coal River Road
Beth Copeland, Transcendental Telemarketer
a review by Susan Laughter Meyers
The Milk of Adversity: Three Books of Memory and Loss
Lee Ann Brown, Crowns of Charlotte: NC Ode
Terry L. Kennedy, New River Breakdown
Tom Lombardo, What Bends Us Blue
a review by Valerie Nieman
Another Ending for Aphrodite
a poem by Hannah Bonner
art by Eduardo Lapetina