The Great Smokies Review

Novel Excerpts

Chapters Seven-Ten from There’s Gotta Be a Baby in the Kitchen

by Marie Hefley

Chapters Three and Four from The Legend of the Golden Kings: The Prophecy

by Mary Hugenschmidt

Selections from Love in Storage

by Darlena Rice Moore

Prologue and Chapter One from Nags Way

by Billie Harper Buie

Selection from The Loft

by Peggy DeBell

“August 1987” and “May 1984” from Sweet’s Pond

by Beverly Williamson

Prologue and Chapter One from Hannah Dustan

by Justin Watson

Excerpt from Ira

by Starlina D. Rose

Chapter One from More Like All the Others

by Nona Martin Stuck

In Ollie’s Oyster House

by Barry Kelly

Chapter Three from Blood Princess, Story of a Maya Queen

by Karen Hokanson Miller

Prologue from The Gondolier’s Wife

by Maggie Marshall

Prologue and Chapter One

by Lisa Watters

Chapter One

by Jim Kelton

Elephantizer Grows ’Em Big

by Linda McCracken

A Kindred Spirit

by Tawney Sankey

Trinity

by Ted McIrvine

from The Paraclete

by Jerry Stubblefield

  • Issue 6 — Spring 2012

    • Home
  • Nonfiction

    • Lorraine Cipriano
      “Coming Home”
    • Bon Parker
      “Woodstock”

    Stories

    • Genève Bacon
      “New Year’s Eve, 1962”
    • Pam Ruatto
      Excerpt from “Agnes”

    Novel Excerpts

    • Marie Hefley
      from There’s Gotta Be a Baby in the Kitchen
    • Mary Hugenschmidt
      from The Legend of the Golden Kings: The Prophecy
    • Darlena Rice Moore
      from Love in Storage

    Poetry

    • Mary Jo Amani
      “This Home, Round 5: Home—An Archetype for My Life”
    • Alexandra Burroughs
      “Star Memory”
    • Jean Cassidy
      “Submerged”
    • Michele Delange
      “Kokagna”
    • Carol Dreiling
      “Father’s Day”
    • Nina Hart
      “Reclamation”
    • Wendy Kochenthal
      “Production Pots, No More”
    • John Oravets
      “The Red Vulture”
    • Jerry Willis
      “Nocturnal Journey”

    Craft Session

    • Prose Master Class
      Our Ten Rules

    Reflections

    • Lenny Bernstein
      On Winning the Nobel Prize

    Interview

    • Marie Hefley
      Cynn Chadwick: Can’t Help Telling Stories

    Writers at Work

    • Mark Prudowsky
      The Poetics of Electricity

    Fit to Print

    • Tommy Hays
      News from Great Smokies/UNC Asheville Writers

    Around Asheville

    • Pam Ruatto
      Current Happenings and Announcements

    Archives

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