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NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY REVIEW LAUNCHES NCLR ONLINE 2013
Greenville, NC, 1 March 2013

As part of its ongoing commitment to provide an effective venue for the state’s authors and artists to showcase their work, the North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) has launched the literary magazine’s second issue of NCLR Online, a winter supplement to the annual print issue, which is published in the summer.

Expanding to a second issue—and making that issue available exclusively online—represents a unique opportunity for NCLR, its contributors, and its readers. Open access to NCLR Online enables the publication to reach a broader audience, acquainting more people with North Carolina’s rich literary history, while at the same time raising awareness for and interest in the print issue. The artists and writers for the online issue can readily promote their work in NCLR Online by linking to the journal from their websites and social media pages. In addition, the online and print issues include content that is by turns complementary to and independent of each publication. As a result, readers can be offered more book reviews and literary award stories in the online issue and more of the best of the state’s literary and artistic work in the print issue.

NCLR Online 2013 includes three stories by finalists in the 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network. The 2012 winning story will be published in the 2013 print issue. NCLR Online also includes poetry by three finalists in NCLR’s own James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition. Readers may also link from NCLR Online to the award presentation video from the 2012 Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, to watch James Applewhite announce the finalists and winner, and to see a reading of the first place poem by its author, Mark Smith-Soto. This winning poem will be published in the 2013 print issue, along with the second place and honorable mention poems.

NCLR Online also includes content related to the year’s special feature topic. For 2013, that topic is “North Carolina: A State of Change, A Changing State,” and features an article from Joan Conwell about her search for Latino/a writers in North Carolina. After reading this essay, readers will want to subscribe to NCLR to read Conwell’s interview with María DeGuzman, founder of the Latina/o Studies program at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Also in this issue is Hal McDonald’s interview with popular novelist Sarah Addison Allen, who talks about how elements of magic realism found their way into her fiction. And readers will see poetry by preeminent North Carolina poets James Applewhite and Fred Chappell, both of whom are also featured in the forthcoming print issue.

Published by East Carolina University and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, NCLR has won numerous awards in its two decades of publication—most recently from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2010 for Best Journal Design. NCLR Online maintains the same beautiful design, created by the journal’s art director, Dana Ezzell Gay, a faculty member at Meredith College in Raleigh. To read NCLR Online and subscribe to the print issue, go to www.nclr.ecu.edu. ###