Issue Contents—Number 15, 2006 | Ordering this Issue

Children's and Young Adult Literature in North Carolina | Creative Writing
Flashbacks | Food Finds | Book Reviews | NC Writers
     

Children's and Young Adult Literature in North Carolina

Cover art by Karen Lee
Cover design by May Thiesen

The Patchwork Princess of the Great Dismal Swamp, by Carole Boston Weatherford
illustrated by Molly Windsor

Smitten by Victoriana: Randall Kenan's Down East Boyhood with Books, Storytelling, and the Power of Language, by Sheryl Cornett

Eleanora E. Tate on her Literary Inspiration

Mary Ann Bryan Mason's Literary Milestone: A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina, by Maurice C. York

"[Her] destiny lay in the land”: An Overview of the Literature of Mebane Holoman Burgwyn, by Sarah Davis

Tani, a children's story and illustrations by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

"spreading out all the rocks and treasure and creepy crawlies": An Interview with Frances O'Roark Dowell, by Angela Leeper

Eleanora E. Tate on her Ideal Audience

"about a girl": An Interview with Sarah Dessen, by Anthony James Holston

Sarah Dessen's Cautiously Optimistic Realism: Decades Beyond the Teen Problem Novel, by Laureen Tedesco

Gender Understanding in Young Adult Literature: Reading Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach, by Barbara Bennett

"skill and caring and, yes, passion": Louise Hawes's Formula for Writing Fiction, an interview by Lisa Morgan

Young Reader Apathy: Assessing the Causes and Posing Solutions with Barbara Bennett, Eleanora E. Tate, and Elizabeth McDavid Jones, by Stephanie West-Puckett

Flashbacks: Echoes
of Past Issues

Hatteras Blues: Greatness and Grace on the Edge, by Ronald Wesley Hoag

Reconciliation and Return: A.R. Ammons's Poetry as Autobiography, by Ted Olson

Snake Girl, a short story by John Kessel
illustrated by Joan Mansfield

Miniature, creative nonfiction by Michael Parker
photography by Will Cook

Devil Girl from Mars, a poem by Brenda Hammack
art by Scott Eagle

Creative Writing

Harried, Hairy, and Harrowing, an epistolary essay by Mary Moss

Sweet Diana, a poem by Daniel Saalfeld
photography by Will Cook

The Purple Monster, a poem by Bill Duvall
art by Louis St. Lewis

The Snow Queen's Story and Co-Dependent God Poem, two poems by Brenda Mann Hammack
art by Walter Piepke

Second Helpings, 1968 and Blue, Part II of IV, two poems by Charles Israel, Jr.
art by Richard Stenhouse

Red Poppy and Like a Shell the Body Opens, two poems by Henrietta Chaussee
art by Barbara Fisher

Notes on Voice, a poem by David Welch
art by Christine Siegfried

Somehow Kin, North Carolina 1957, a poem by Nora Shepard
photography by R.H. Sturges

Mall Awaking, a poem by Dan Stryk
photography by Jim White

Rehearsal: Achibald MacLeish's JB, a poem by Gary Ettari
art by Henryk Fantazos

Food Finds

Love, Death, and Sweet Potato Biscuits, by David Cecelski
photography by Sandra Carawan

Pass the Collards, Please!: Writing about East Carolina Culinary Traditions

North Carolina Sweet Potato and Pork Stew—or Sweet Potato Stew (vegan), a recipe by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Book Reviews

Tales from the "Other" White South, a review of historical memoirs by Timothy B. Tyson and Karl Fleming, by Nicole Nolan Sidhu

Here, Interrupted, a review of Clyde Edgerton's flying memoir, by Tonita Branan

In Place and Out, a review of Thomas Rain Crow's Ragan Cup-winning memoir, by Ronald Wesley Hoag

A "book of pages waiting to be turned," a review of Minnie Bruce Pratt's selected poems collection, by Christina G. Bucher

"Reckon[ing] up losses," a review of two new James Applewhite collections, by Patrick Bizzaro

Novel Revisits Real-Life Catastrophe in Small Town, a review of Laurence Naumoff's Raleigh historical novel, by Philip Gerard

Family Physics, a review of Haven Kimmel's latest novel, by Sally Lawrence

The Enchanting World of Adantis, a review of a sequel by Marly Youmans, by Sara K. Day

North Carolina Writers

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Talbot to Vorse, by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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