"Towels… We need towels!" yelled Morely, descending the stairs, his floral print button-up now a tacky, tropical casualty of arterial spray.

I sat down on a spring afternoon with poet Anna Lena Phillips Bell to talk about her new book “Might Could." Winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, “Might Could" explores the floodplains of North Carolina, the flowers that grow along the riverside, what it means to call a place home, and the juxtaposition of loving and grieving for an environmentally traumatized landscape. In “Might Could", you’ll find the Cape Fear River alive with mosquitoes and hurricane wreckage, light

“Sword of the Seven Sins” follows Eva who lives in the Commonwealth, a tyrannical place where everyone is punished if they commit one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Local poet Martha Afetse will join others this week at the Island Arts Poetry monthly open mic on August 6 from 6-8 p.m.

From auras to shadows to walking-talking ghosts in haunted cities, Carmichael's literary debut is part memoir and part manual, aiming to give vocabulary, community, and structured practices to people struggling with experiences that can be hard to define and even harder to discuss.

Local author Deb Bowen recalls a time gigging for flounder with her father, and today’s coastal dune lectures with passersby.

Local artist Janette K Hopper shares her essay ‘Bursting Hearts' and original artworks inspired by the native North Carolina plant Euonymus Americanus—commonly called 'Hearts-a-Bustin.'

A reflection on the week of January 5-9 and (possibly relevant and relatable) musings over this moment.

Next week, UNCW Writers Week (Nov. 3-7) and North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference (Nov. 7-9) overlap to offer writers and enthusiasts spaces to learn, grow, and enjoy literary storytelling in all forms.