Issue 28 – Spring 2023

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Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief
“It’s Only Human”

Interview

Great Smokies Writing Program Coordinator Jennifer McGaha With Special Features Editor Janet Moore
“What’s Next: Building on Firm Foundations”

Nonfiction

Amy Jane Lynch
“Walking the Barrel”
Amanda Burns
“Remembering Clare: A Love Story”

Fiction

Billie Harper Buie
“Refugees”
Pam J. Hecht
“The Lions”

Poetry

Judith A. Davis
“Stopping by a Farmstand on a Summer Afternoon”
Karen Luke Jackson
“Open Heart”
Margaret Bishop
“Dying to Be Born”
Zoe Rhine
“The Prankster’s Laughter Stone-Skips Across the Lake”

Craft Session

Bruce Spang
“Syntax as Style in Poetry:
The Invisible Craft of an Artful Sentence in Poetry”

Archives

Elizabeth Lutyens,
Editor-in-Chief, Founder
Janet Moore,
Special Features Editor
Julie Abbott,
Submissions Editor
Patrick Pickering,
UNC Asheville Intern
Michael Mauney,
Photographer

Jennifer McGaha,
Great Smokies Writing Program Coordinator
Lilly Danzis,
GSWP Administrative Assistant
Tracey Rizzo,
Dean of Humanities, UNC Asheville

The Great Smokies Review is an online publication of The Great Smokies Writing Program, a joint effort of the UNC Asheville departments of Literature and Language, Creative Writing, and the Asheville Graduate Center.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We accept student fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction submitted by faculty of the Great Smokies Writing Program and other UNC Asheville writing programs. Submitters will receive a guidelines checklist to complete.

From Tommy

Taking On the Thomas Wolfe Prize

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

How What I Came to Tell You Came To Be

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

When Traveling to Strange Places, Books Make You Feel at Home

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

Good News Has Its Place

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

In Defense of the Quiet

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

Gone to Ride: A Close Look at Place and The Pleasure Was Mine

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

High Stakes: Remembering Jim McElduff

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

The Memoir That Became a Novel

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

Building a Writing Community

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program