The Great Smokies Review

Editor’s Choice

In Praise of Shared History

by Janet Moore

Finding tarot in literature: Character development in the cards

by Ellen Carr, Guest Editor

I Know Exactly Who I Am: Highlighting Diverse Voices in “Appalachian” Writing

by Grey Jones, Guest Editor

Inviting Attentiveness

by Margaret Ann Faeth

Yearning: Story’s Efficient Engine

by Stanley Dankoski

Setting Inward

by Rachel Stein

Haunted Beauty

by Kim Winter Mako, Guest Editor

Writing with Empathy: Understanding the Mind of a Stranger

by Grey Jones, Guest Editor

Hearing Voices:

Some Thoughts on Authorial Authority

by Mike Ross

Come to the Table

by Jeanne Howe

In Poetry and Prose, the Relevance of Story

by Bob Mustin

Escape Artists

by Miriam McNamara

On her prose & poetry choices: “Seduce & Resist”

by Cynthia Lindeman

The School of One in Ten

by Cathy Agrella, Guest Editor

Skewed Views

by Marie Hefley

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Issue 27 – Fall 2022

  • Home

    • Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief
      “A Lesson from Vicki Lane:
      Proof of the Passion Is in the Doing”

    Appreciations

    • Tributes from the GSWP community to retiring faculty member Vicki Lane

    Nonfiction

    • Linda S. Fowler
      “My Father’s Distant Smile”
    • Margaret Bishop
      “Has Anyone Seen My Man?”
    • Margaret Ann Faeth
      “Losing Control”
      “Words”
    • Melissa Royce
      “Gift with Purchase”

    Fiction

    • Jeanette Reid
      “Manna”

    Poetry

    • Susan Rothlein
      “Open Invitation”
    • Terry Leigh Deal
      “Drowning”
      “Narcissus”
    • Alida Woods
      “Aubade”
    • Kathleen Calby
      “Navy Boys: Montrose, Pennsylvania, 1942”
    • Bill Caldwell
      “I Don’t Trust This”
    • Paige Gilchrist
      “Care and Feeding: A Parenting Sonnet”
    • Dana Lichty
      “What We Ate”
    • Anne Maren-Hogan
      “Oh, Knees”
    • Yve Mitchell
      “Unreality in Which You Get to Be a Black Father”
      “Small Break”

    Craft Session

    • Eric Steineger
      “Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Prose Poem’s Versatility and Evolution: Selected Examples from the 1850s to the Modern Era”

    Interview

    • Janet Moore Talks with Vicki Lane
      “Write What You Love”

    Archives

  • TGSR

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    Janet Moore, Special Features Editor
    Julie Abbott, Submissions Editor
    Zoe Newton, UNC Asheville Intern
    Herman Holt, Jr., Dean of Special and Graduate Programs
    Lilly Danzis, GSWP Administrative Assistant

    Michael Mauney, Photographer

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