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A literary magazine housed at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

of the 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature, served as editor from 1979 until his retirement in 2010. Poet Jennifer Key, winner of the 2012 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, served as Interim Editor from 2010-12. Fiction writer Jessica Pitchford, former editor-in-chief of The Southeast Review, was named editor of Pembroke Magazine in August 2012. Published by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and the North Carolina Arts Council, Pembroke Magazine has been printed annually since its founding in 1969. It has grown from a student publication of forty-eight pages to a book-length publication international in scope, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and visual art from North Carolina, the United States, and beyond. Please visit the magazine's official website -- forthcoming Fall 2012 -- for more information and a look at the current issue and archives.

19/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Ashley Sojin Kim (poetry, “Full Stop,” “Intimacy,” “Anglerfish”).

16/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Jason Gordy Walker (poetry, “Late-Night Visitors”). “After days studying birds and lizards, / now lodged in a village house on the Tapajos, / I snored before my servant yelped, “The rats, / the rats!”—waking me hours before sunrise.”

13/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Andrea Eschen (creative nonfiction, “Mapping the Way Home”). “My mother recalls a hill, a steep embankment, and a view of Echo Mountain. She insists on directing us. I hide my doubts.”

10/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Anne Champion (poetry, “Death”). “They say Death walks through walls in a grim reaper cloak / with a scythe, but Death knocked on my door / in a backwards baseball hat, a sleeveless T-shirt, / dirty jeans, holding a new fuse.”

07/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Randolph Thomas (poetry, “Come to the Inn at Afton”). “we are finally the same / face to face / with those empty rooms”

04/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Michael C. Smith (poetry, “Curio”). “The fly suspended in the unopened jar / of strawberry jam / is of course revolting, / but . . .”

01/07/2025

Issue 57 contributor Vickie Fang (fiction, “It’s My Sweet Angels that Save Me”). “The bail bondsman keeps the front of his shop locked, so I have to go through Tinker Bell’s Bridal to get to him. There’s a girl inside posing like she’s the snow queen in a white wedding gown and a tiara—she jumps when I pop up in the mirror beside her! Then she looks at my bloody mouth and my mother’s name tattooed on my neck, AILEEN, and her nose goes up in the air.”

29/06/2025

Issue 57 contributor Susan G. Duncan (poetry, “Abutilon”). “I keep meaning to seed / my favorite words in a poem”

26/06/2025

Issue 57 contributor Christi Leman (creative nonfiction, “Notes from the Lakeshore Defunct”) “A little way up the mountain across from my home is a trail that outlines the ghost of an ancient Utah lake.”

23/06/2025

Issue 57 contributor Vaidhy Mahalingam (fiction, “Ami Dhariya’s Power Drill”). “The air hangs heavy; there is no breeze to stir the blossoms, perched on their slender stalks. Ami takes this all in, along with the buzz of two Cobras, the stench of rotting food, gasoline fumes, the divine and the dross, as she takes a break from her labors.”

20/06/2025

Issue 57 contributor Priscilla Long (poetry, “Homecoming”).

18/06/2025

Issue 57 contributor Alice Hatcher (poetry, “Season 5”). “Before the end, we tried everything to fill the space—“ … like reading a little PM after each lap.

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When Norman Macleod (1906-1985) founded Pembroke Magazine in 1969, he had already edited some of the top "little" magazines in the country, including Morada (1929-30), Front (1930-31), Maryland Quarterly (1942-44), and the Briarcliff Quarterly (1944-47). Macleod edited Pembroke Magazine for ten years, when poet and North Carolina native Shelby Stephenson assumed the editorship. Stephenson, winner of the 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature, served as editor from 1979 until his retirement in 2010. Poet Jennifer Key, winner of the 2012 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, served as Interim Editor from 2010-12. Fiction writer Jessica Pitchford, former editor-in-chief of The Southeast Review, edited the magazine from 2012 - 2017. The current editor is Peter Grimes. Published by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and the North Carolina Arts Council, Pembroke Magazine has been printed annually since its founding in 1969. It has grown from a student publication of forty-eight pages to a book-length publication international in scope, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and visual art from North Carolina, the United States, and beyond. Please visit the magazine's official website -- www.pembrokemagazine.com -- for more information and a look at the current issue and archives.