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2012
NORTH CAROLINA L ITE R A R Y RE V IE W O N L INE
number 21
A Miscellany of Material Margaret D. Bauer, Editor about submitting interviews with and articles on North Carolina writers. Remember that topics that do not fit the current or a past issue’s special feature section will be considered for the North Carolina Miscellany section of either the print issue or now the online supplement. We would love to hear from you about a writer you would like to introduce or reintroduce to our readers. Finally, we invite authors to send us (or have your publisher send us) the books you want us to consider reviewing in the next NCLR Online. It would help us considerably if those who are submitting their books to the various North Carolina book award competitions conducted by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association would send us a review copy of their books at the same time. For more information about book reviews, go to Submissions on our website and then click on the Book Review tab. Enjoy this final section of the premiere issue of NCLR Online, and then subscribe to receive the print issue or join the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association (all members receive NCLR, as well as the North Carolina Historical Review). Show your support for North Carolina writers, and help us to increase our subscription/membership base and weather the current economic climate. n
This section provides quite a miscellany of material: reviews of poetry, from a debut collection to several Selected Poems collections; a review of three very different kinds of historical novels; and a review of a debut novel that has been decades in the writing. Also in this section, we have news of Michael Parker’s latest award and a poem by the winner of the first James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition. The winning poem, as well as an essay by Parker, will then be published in the 2012 print issue. Thinking about awards for writing, it is time to submit to the Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network and managed by NCLR. The 2011 competition’s first and second-place stories are forthcoming in NCLR 2012. Following the 2012 Betts competition’s February 15 deadline, we will begin accepting submissions for our own James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition. The first year was a grand success, as readers can see by the finalists’ poems in this issue and forthcoming in the print issue. We thank the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for grant funding in support of these first two years of the Applewhite competition. Please check out the Submissions page of our website for submission and eligibility guidelines for both of these competitions, as well as to find out
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