Issue 14

Come to the Table

by Jeanne Howe

Ethel

by Stephen Goldman

Monday

by John Falter

The Hunt

by Chris Culbreth

Interviewing the Interviewer

by Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief

Inbound

by Deborah Fulton Anderson

Announcing the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

Child’s Play

by Cecily Hamlin Wells

DISCONNECT

by Shirley Sparr

The Sound of Laughter

by Alice L. Gregory

On the Outskirts of Phnom Penh

by Peg Bresnahan

In This Winter House

by Anne Maren-Hogan

Hopscotch

by Karen Luke Jackson

Mixed Usage

by Joyce Thornburg

Awakened

by Joady Perrett

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a forked stick (tongue)

by Jo Ann Hodshon

The Night Before

by Meg Winnecour

Poe Boy

by Mike Ross

from Passenger Girls

by Belle Crawford

Eula Mae

by Nina Baxley Rogers

Communion

by Jane Mary Curran

Good News from the Great Smokies Writing Community

by Tommy Hays, Executive Director, Great Smokies Writing Program

Writing and Retail

by Kim Winter Mako, Guest Editor

Robert Beatty: Imagination, Invention, and Reinvention

by Marie Hefley

Reading Cheryl Dietrich’s In Formation

by Judi Goldenberg

Questions To Ask Yourself—And Others—When You Choose To Create A Fictional Character of Another Race, Gender, or Sexual Orientation

by Heather Newton

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A Villanelle

by Alida Woods

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”
- Zoe Rhine
  “The Prankster’s Laughter Stone-Skips Across the Lake”
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”
Craft Session
- Bruce Spang
  “Syntax as Style in Poetry:
  The Invisible Craft of an Artful Sentence in Poetry”
Reflection
- Zoe Newton
  “Selective Memory”
Archives
The Great Smokies Review

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.

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