WAR IN NORTH CAROLINA LITERATURE

“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

 

Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues

• 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

  2013 NC AAUW Award

  “The clock is ticking”
  Robert Inman, The Governor’s Lady
  a review by Anna Dunlap Higgins

   

  North Carolina Miscellany

  • 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

 

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  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