Books
- The Coasts of Carolina: Seaside and Sound Country. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering: A Nonfiction Novel. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
- The Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
- Heart of the Country: A Novel of Southern Music. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
- The Inner Islands: A Carolinian’s Sound Country Chronicle. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian’s Coastal Plain. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
- Little Rivers and Waterway Tales: A Carolinian’s Eastern Streams. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
- Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Articles and Other Publications
- “Canalbank Life: Recollections of the Great Dismal.” Virginia Cavalcade 39.4 (1990): 172-181.
- Coda. Raleigh, NC: Officina Briani, 2010.
- The Grandfathers: Together with Addresses of Friends on the Occasion of his Acceptance of the North Caroliniana Society Award for 2010. Chapel Hill, NC: North Caroliniana Society, 2010.
- “In the Lowlands Low Swamping About the South.” Southern Cultures 20.3 (2014).
- “Machelhe Island.” Southern Cultures 13.1 (2007).
- “A Moment on Hooper Lane: How We See, How We Are Seen: Nothing Says Faith in the Future to the World as Powerfully as a People’s Abiding Protection of the Clean Air, Clean Earth, Clean Water in its Domain.” North Carolina Literary Review 27 (2018).
- “This Small Hallowed Ground.” Carolina Alumni Review 88.5 (1995): 38-48.
Musicals
- Cool Spring: A New Musical, 1989
- Diamond Studs, the Life of Jesse James, 1975
- King Mackerel & The Blues are Running: Songs & Stories of the Carolina Coast, 1998.
- Kudzu: A Southern Musical, 1999.
- Tar Heel Voices: A Musical 200th for Chapel Hill, 1993
About Bland Simpson
- Bland Simpson UNC Faculty Directory
- Dixon, Nathan. “Great Dismal Day in the Morning.” North Carolina Literary Review, 25 (2016): 122-128.
- Mills, Jerry Leath. “The Spawning of King Mackerel.” North Carolina Literary Review, 14 (2005): 22-30.
- The North Carolina Awards: 2005 program