TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issue 28 – Spring 2023

Home

  • 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.

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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.

Sketchbook

Such a Character
Excerpts from a Great Smokies Writing Class

by Heather Newton

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