NCLR Online explores writing toward healing
The 2021 online issue of the North Carolina Literary Review is available and can be accessed on the NCLR website.
The virtual online issue launch, hosted on Zoom by the East Carolina University Alumni Association, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23. This event is free and open to the public. It will feature creative nonfiction readings by 2020 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize honorees. Click here to register for the Zoom link.
The online issue includes: an interview with Belle Boggs, author of “The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood” and the novel “The Gulf;” creative writing by honorees and finalists in NCLR’s competitions, including Glenis Redmond’s “On Beauty; or, a Reluctant Beauty Queen,” the second-place essay for the 2020 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize competition; more than 50 reviews of books by North Carolina writers; and news of the year’s North Carolina literary awards, with links to watch many of the acceptance remarks online, reflecting how North Carolina adapts to celebrate the state’s rich literary history even during a pandemic. The issue’s cover features art inspired by COVID-19 by ECU professor Cynthia Bickley-Green.
This year’s theme, Writing Toward Healing, was decided upon before the pandemic, according to Margaret D. Bauer, NCLR editor, who said the topic was inspired by “the need for healing in the country, politically, and the world, environmentally.”
“Writers tend to seek understanding through writing,” Bauer said. “And understanding can lead to healing. Hence the title we finally decided upon: Writing Toward Healing.”
The public can access NCLR Online 2021 from the literary magazine’s website. Readers are welcome to enjoy and share the content and are invited to subscribe to receive the 2021 print issue, with all-new content. NCLR 2021, to be published this summer, will be the 30th annual print issue of this award-winning publication, produced at ECU. Find subscription information on the NCLR website.
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