Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (Blair, 2025) is a delicately visceral interrogation of what it means to be a woman in search of herself and what it costs when every choice—and every failure to choose—reshapes everything around her. The story is set in the 1960s, in northern Hausa country, Nigeria, during the years between the […]
“Swimming Between Worlds,” by Elaine Neil Orr
April 24, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Kathleen Thompson Elaine Neil Orr’s novel, Swimming Between Worlds, can be judged by its cover. The time is January 1958. This cover depicts a large swimming pool, so crowded with swimmers, in the water or sunning on the sides, that one might surmise it a special day—maybe the last day before school starts […]
North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference
September 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
CARY, NC–Boasting scores of independent bookstores, nationally recognized publishers, and the largest population of members in the state, North Carolina’s Research Triangle is the ideal host for the 2012 North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference, November 2-4 at the Embassy Suites in Cary, NC. The annual Fall Conference is North Carolina’s premier literary event and […]