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Long River Review To Be Delivered To Troops Overseas
Lindsay Fetzner
Issue date: 3/19/08 Section: News
The Long River Review, UConn's literary and arts journal, is sending copies of this year's magazine overseas to soldiers in Iraq.
The magazine's editors got the idea to send copies to troops when they learned that the Connecticut Review, a literary journal edited by faculty members of the Connecticut State University system, decided to provide copies of their magazine to Connecticut-based members of the U.S. Armed Forces, according to Ellen Litman, assistant professor of English and associate director of the Creative Writing program at UConn.
This particular group of armed forces, the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion, is based in Danbury. They are currently working to rebuild the infrastructure in parts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Litman said.
Juliana Kenny, an 8th-semester English and French major from the Long River Review teamed up with Robin Worley from the English department to extend the contribution beyond the Long River Review, collecting additional donations of books and magazines from English faculty, staff and graduate students at UConn, according to Litman.
Kenny contacted Aimee Pozorski, from Central Connecticut State University, who led the project. Pozorski was able to able to put Kenny in contact with a representative from the Veterans' Office in Hartford, who offered to drive up to UConn to pick up the books that were being donated, Kenny said.
The Long River Review is produced by undergraduates at UConn every spring to give student editors and staff the opportunity to create a magazine in conjunction with a three-credit course on the subject called "Small Magazines: Aesthetics and Practice." The goal of the magazine ties in with the objective of the class "reading and selecting submissions; developing publicity and marketing strategies for the journal, and organizing a publication reading open to the campus community," according to Amanda Wisniewski, a 6th-semester English major and Long River Review editor.
The magazine was originally called "Writing UConn," but received a new name and a general overhaul in 1998.
Undergraduate and graduate students from all of the UConn campuses are encouraged to publish works of nonfiction, fiction, poetry and visual art. Authors of the magazine have also gone off-campus to promote the magazine and encourage creative writing in local colleges, high schools and community organizations.
Contact Lindsay Fetzner at
Lindsay.Fetzner@UConn.edu.
The magazine's editors got the idea to send copies to troops when they learned that the Connecticut Review, a literary journal edited by faculty members of the Connecticut State University system, decided to provide copies of their magazine to Connecticut-based members of the U.S. Armed Forces, according to Ellen Litman, assistant professor of English and associate director of the Creative Writing program at UConn.
This particular group of armed forces, the 411th Civil Affairs Battalion, is based in Danbury. They are currently working to rebuild the infrastructure in parts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Litman said.
Juliana Kenny, an 8th-semester English and French major from the Long River Review teamed up with Robin Worley from the English department to extend the contribution beyond the Long River Review, collecting additional donations of books and magazines from English faculty, staff and graduate students at UConn, according to Litman.
Kenny contacted Aimee Pozorski, from Central Connecticut State University, who led the project. Pozorski was able to able to put Kenny in contact with a representative from the Veterans' Office in Hartford, who offered to drive up to UConn to pick up the books that were being donated, Kenny said.
The Long River Review is produced by undergraduates at UConn every spring to give student editors and staff the opportunity to create a magazine in conjunction with a three-credit course on the subject called "Small Magazines: Aesthetics and Practice." The goal of the magazine ties in with the objective of the class "reading and selecting submissions; developing publicity and marketing strategies for the journal, and organizing a publication reading open to the campus community," according to Amanda Wisniewski, a 6th-semester English major and Long River Review editor.
The magazine was originally called "Writing UConn," but received a new name and a general overhaul in 1998.
Undergraduate and graduate students from all of the UConn campuses are encouraged to publish works of nonfiction, fiction, poetry and visual art. Authors of the magazine have also gone off-campus to promote the magazine and encourage creative writing in local colleges, high schools and community organizations.
Contact Lindsay Fetzner at
Lindsay.Fetzner@UConn.edu.
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