Please read our complete submissions guidelines before submitting.
Categories are active (i.e, genre/section submission categories are visible) during the submission period.
If you have difficulty making your submission via Submittable, you can email your files to NCLRStaff@ecu.edu. Be sure to provide your North Carolina connection, and to send creative writing submissions for contests only. See submission guidelines for more information.
You are welcome to submit on topics we have already covered in past issues. We consider interviews, literary criticism, and one-act plays for our Flashbacks section. (poetry, fiction, and any form of creative nonfiction must be submitted through our competitions. For more information, see NCLR's full submission guidelines.)
Please consult the author style sheet before submitting your manuscript.
Email queries regarding such submissions to the Editor at bauerm@ecu.edu.
We are always interested in interviews with North Carolina writers and literary criticism that introduces a new NC writer or that reintroduces a forgotten NC writer. One-act plays (by a NC playwright or set in NC) may also be submitted in this category. (Creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry must be submitted through our competitions. For more information, see NCLR's full submission guidelines.)
Before submitting, consult the Author Style Sheet.
Email queries to the Editor.
Submissions accepted for publication may be eligble for the John Ehle Prize or the Randall Kenan Prize. Find information about these honors in our submission guidelines.
The North Carolina Literary Review is seeking submissions on “Teaching North Carolina Literature.”
Submissions may be related to teaching in K-12 or post-secondary education and might take a variety of forms, including but not limited to a pedagogical essay, a unit or lesson plan, an assignment, or a digital repository of materials related to teaching the work of a (or works by) North Carolina creative writer(s). Find submission instructions on the NCLR website: https://nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/
Essay submissions accepted for publication will appear in NCLR’s open access online issues. Other content—lesson plans and digital projects—will be promoted via NCLR Online and archived in or linked through NCLR’s website, the goal being to make this material widely and easily accessible to teachers.
If the submission employs NCLR, we will provide enough copies of that issue for a class (if available).