Spring Break
Long River Review Keeps Flowing
Kimberly Primicerio
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: Focus
With the end of another spring semester at the University of Connecticut comes the completion of UConn's annual literary journal, "The Long River Review."
The journal had its very own release party Thursday evening at the Co-op where a full crowd gathered to hear UConn students' award-winning submissions of prose, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Editors and staff of "The Long River Review" were gracious to those who had submitted and to those on the staff who put their hard work into the journal.
Editor-in-chief, Nathan Harold, said they received hundreds of submissions but narrowed it down to about 34. Harold said there was a lot of diversity in the journal and readers could all find something with resonance in it.
Poetry editor, James Davis, told those who had submitted work but were not included in the journal, to continue what they were doing; to never stop pursuing their creative outlets.
The staff also made sure to thank Professor Ellen Litman, without whom none of this would have been possible. Litman is an assistant professor of English at UConn, associate director of the Creative Writing Program and also the instructor of the publications class.
Certain students, who received prize money for their writings, had their pieces read by a panel of professors who evaluated and then granted those students with their awards.
Monoswita Saha won two prizes for her writings. She read one of her fiction pieces titled "Power Outage" while Christopher Venter, another prize winner, read his fiction writing about a man who wrote letters to God in the year 1999 because he thought the world was ending. His piece was titled "Our Savior in the Year 2000." Other prize winners also read their literature.
The artwork that made it into the Long River Review was also on display, as well as the bicycle that was photographed for the cover page of the journal.
The production process of "The Long River Review" is taught in a class called Small Publications, according to Julie Trzaski sixth semester English major who has a concentration in creative writing. The class also collaborated with UConn's Design Center who also helped put together the magazine.
The journal had its very own release party Thursday evening at the Co-op where a full crowd gathered to hear UConn students' award-winning submissions of prose, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Editors and staff of "The Long River Review" were gracious to those who had submitted and to those on the staff who put their hard work into the journal.
Editor-in-chief, Nathan Harold, said they received hundreds of submissions but narrowed it down to about 34. Harold said there was a lot of diversity in the journal and readers could all find something with resonance in it.
Poetry editor, James Davis, told those who had submitted work but were not included in the journal, to continue what they were doing; to never stop pursuing their creative outlets.
The staff also made sure to thank Professor Ellen Litman, without whom none of this would have been possible. Litman is an assistant professor of English at UConn, associate director of the Creative Writing Program and also the instructor of the publications class.
Certain students, who received prize money for their writings, had their pieces read by a panel of professors who evaluated and then granted those students with their awards.
Monoswita Saha won two prizes for her writings. She read one of her fiction pieces titled "Power Outage" while Christopher Venter, another prize winner, read his fiction writing about a man who wrote letters to God in the year 1999 because he thought the world was ending. His piece was titled "Our Savior in the Year 2000." Other prize winners also read their literature.
The artwork that made it into the Long River Review was also on display, as well as the bicycle that was photographed for the cover page of the journal.
The production process of "The Long River Review" is taught in a class called Small Publications, according to Julie Trzaski sixth semester English major who has a concentration in creative writing. The class also collaborated with UConn's Design Center who also helped put together the magazine.
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