A Magazine for Literature of the American South
The North Carolina Writers’ Network is accepting submissions for its annual Doris Betts Fiction Prize, administered by the North Carolina Literary Review. The Doris Betts Fiction Prize awards $250 and publication in the NCLR to the author of the winning short story, up to 6,000 words. The contest is open to any writer who is [...]
Mollie Smith Waters is a teacher of American literature, public speaking, and theater at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Greenville, Alabama. Her hobbies include reading, writing, walking, and traveling. Her favorite places to visit are London and Boston. She has written over twenty book reviews for The Montgomery Advertiser, and she has published short stories, poems, and scholarly work in various [...]
Author profile by Meredith Edwards Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist. His most famous work is The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the war published over the course of two decades. His history was characterized by a literary style, and included Shakespearean metaphors and colloquialisms. He understood facts [...]