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NORTH CAROLINA L I T E R A R Y RE V I E W
FUTURE OF NCLR Looking back on these first twenty-five years of NCLR, what do you hope for its next twenty-five years?
PHOTOGRAPH BY NICKI LEONE PHOTOGRAPH BY MARGARET BAUER
ABOVE TOP Bauer with Charles Frazier and Lee Smith, the “Literary Captains” of NCLR’s capital campaign (Here the writers co-sign a letter mailed out to North Carolina writers asking for their help to ensure another 25 years of NCLR.) ABOVE BOTTOM NCLR display at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention in Durham, NC, 13–15 Nov. 2015
Put simply and frankly, an endowment. In this year of the twenty-fifth print issue and fifth online issue, we are launching a capital campaign with the goal of raising two million dollars in two years. The second year of the campaign will see the publication of my twentieth print issue as editor, and for those twenty years the management of NCLR has largely been a one-woman show. I have excellent help in the NCLR office from student staff members, but the undergraduate internship is a single semester and the graduate editorial assistants serve on NCLR’s staff no more than the two years that it takes to earn their master’s degrees. So the only person who knows about the day-to-day business of producing NCLR and managing the sales and subscriptions is me. We are hoping to raise enough money to endow a position for a managing editor, which most comparable publications have. We certainly want NCLR to last another twenty-five years and then another twenty-five years and another. . . . n
ZACKARY VERNON grew up in Pawleys Island, SC, and earned a BA in English from Clemson University. He moved to North Carolina for the master’s program in English at North Carolina State University, which he completed with a thesis on North Carolina poet and fiction writer Ron Rash. Vernon went on to earn his PhD in English from UNC Chapel Hill with a dissertation on literature and film of the Cold War era. In 2015, he joined the faculty of Appalachian State University as an Assistant Professor of Contemporary American and Southern literature, and he has recently contracted with the University of South Carolina Press to co-edit a book of scholarly essays on Rash. His previous contributions to NCLR include an interview with Ron Rash and Terry Roberts and an essay on Allan Gurganus, both in the 2014 print issue.
ANNIE FRAZIER grew up in Raleigh, NC, on her family’s small horse farm and now lives in Florida where she attended New College of Florida in Sarasota to study ancient Greek language and literature. She is currently enrolled in the Spalding University lowresidency MFA program. Her first published story, “Sakura,” was a finalist in the 2013 Doris Betts Fiction prize competition and then published in NCLR 2014. She won 2nd place in the 2015 James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition, and that poem will be published in the 2016 print issue. DONNA KAIN is an Associate Professor in the East Carolina University English Department and the editor of Technical Communication Quarterly, the journal of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. She has a PhD from Iowa State University.