NCLR Online 2020 a record-breaking issue
The 2020 online issue of the North Carolina Literary Review marks a record in the number of books reviewed — more than 50, including poetry, fiction and other literary genres — by North Carolina writers. It is the longest online issue since the award-winning publication launched an annual online issue in 2012.
The online issue includes different material than will appear in the print issue, which is published in the summer.
Also included in this issue: the 2019 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize essay by Faith S. Holsaert and several finalists from the 2019 James Applewhite Poetry Prize contest, as well as two new poems by former North Carolina Poet Laureate Fred Chappell. More poems by Chappell, Applewhite and the winner and other honorees from the competition will be published in the print issue.
The online issue includes recent literary awards received by N.C. writers: the North Carolina Award for Literature, presented to Philip Gerard by Gov. Roy Cooper; the Caldwell Award for the Humanities, given to N.C. Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green by the North Carolina Humanities Council; three speculative fiction awards received by Mary Robinette Kowal; and more.
The cover features art by A.R. Ammons, an eastern North Carolina poet who spent most of his career teaching at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, thus reflecting the 2020 special feature theme: expatriate North Carolina writers. The online issue’s special feature section includes an essay by Kerry Madden-Lunsford, now a Tennessee resident, about one of her N.C.-inspired children’s books; an interview with eastern N.C. native Kat Meads, who lives in Canada; George Hovis, another N.C. native who lives in Ithaca; and Hovis’s “Virtual Road Trip” interview with five other expatriate N.C. writers.
Enjoy this open access issue, and then subscribe to NCLR to read more interviews with N.C. writers living outside the state, including Moira Crone of Goldsboro, now living in New Orleans; eastern N.C. raised/Texas residing Ben Fountain; Mary Robinette Kowal, another Tennessee resident; Gwendolyn Parker in California; and more.
To read NCLR Online and for subscription information, visit www.nclr.ecu.edu.
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