North Carolina Literary Review
Edited by Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University

Frequency: Annually (June)
Latest Issue: 2022, vol. 31
Size: 7.75 x 10"
Bibliographic Information: ISSN: 1063-0724
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The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by North Carolina writers, as well as interviews, articles, and essays about the state’s authors, literary history, and writing culture. A cross between a scholarly journal and a literary magazine, NCLR has won numerous awards and citations, including five from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals: the Best New Journal award in 1994, the Best Journal Design award in 1999 and 2010, the Parnassus Award for Significant Editorial Achievement in 2007, and the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement in 2014.
The NCLR is produced at East Carolina University. Started in 1991, it was inspired by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association to be a companion to the North Carolina Historical Review, with a mission to promote and support writers who are a part of the state’s rich literary tradition. NCLR not only introduces new and emerging writers, but also celebrates forgotten authors who have influenced the culture and history of the Old North State.
The print issue is published in the summer. It is available via subscription and in independent bookstores across the state. Since 2012, a separate, open access digital issue (NCLR Online) is published in the winter. The creative writing in both issues is complemented with fine art by North Carolina artists.
Editor since 1997, Margaret D. Bauer is the Rives Chair of Southern Literature and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University in Greenville, where she received the university’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Research and Creative Activity in 2014. She is the author of The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist (1999), William Faulkner’s Legacy (2005), Understanding Tim Gautreaux (2010), and A Study of Scarletts: Scarlett O’Hara and Her Literary Daughters (2014), as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals. She has also edited two Paul Green books: James Spence’s Green biography and a new critical edition of Green’s play The House of Connelly.
The NCLR has been adopted as an official publication of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. Members receive a subscription to the journal as a benefit of membership. For more information, visit our membership page.
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Editor
Margaret D. Bauer
Art Director
Dana Ezzell Lovelace
Poetry Editor
Jeffrey Franklin
Fiction Editor
Liza Wieland
Art Editor
Diane Rodman
Graphic Designers
Karen Baltimore
Stephanie Whitlock Dicken
Senior Associate Editor
Christy Alexander Hallberg
Assistant Editors
Anne Mallory
Randall Martoccia
Helen Stead
Senior Editorial Assistant
Max Kilgore
2020-2021 Editorial Assistants
Drake Heath
Bethany Holmes
Nija Knight
Mary Myers
2020-2021 Interns
Elizabeth Currin
Lily Johnson
Vedika Modi
Founding Editor
Alex Albright
Original Art Director
Eva Roberts
Table of Contents
Number 31, 2022
Writers Who Teach, Teachers Who Write
Includes interviews, essays, and poetry
Barbara Bennet
Maia Butler
Catherine Carter
Wiley Cash
Jim Coby
Michaux Dempster
Sheena Eagan
Georgann Eubanks
Ben Fountain
Anna Froula
Paul Green
Christy Alexander Hallberg
Leah Hampton
Marian Janssen
Paul Jones
Carolyn Kizer
Michael Loderstedt
Settle Monroe
Peter Taylor
Khalisa Rae Thompson
FLASHBACKS: ECHOES OF PAST ISSUES
Includes poetry and creative nonfiction
Janice Harrington
Steve Mitchell
Allen Tullos
NORTH CAROLINA MISCELLANY
Includes poetry and fiction
Heather Bell Adams
James W. Clark, Jr.
Frank Borden Hanes, Sr.
ARTISTS IN THIS ISSUE
Mallory Cash
Tim Christensen
Anna G. Dean
Tama Hochbaum
Claude Howell
Michael Loderstedt
Joan Mansfield
Ben Nixon
Susan Harbage Page
Ippy Patterson
Fen Rascoe
Robert Rauschenberg
Dawn Surratt
Bayard Wootten
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