Long River Review

Long River Review is housed at the University of Connecticut (UConn), a public university in Storrs, Connecticut. They publish: fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. They also accept art submissions, comics, and mixed media pieces.

Submissions can come from people within or outside the UConn community; there is no requirement to be a student to submit. Their magazine is built into the curriculum. All staff members receive credit for taking the class that’s associated with the journal. 

How does your magazine fit into your broader campus or literary community? 

Long River Review works closely with UConn's broader Creative Writing Program, which holds annual submission contests for UConn students. Students who submit to these contests are considered for publication and winning pieces get published in the journal or on our website. 

What have you found most exciting about working for or advising your magazine?

For me, there’s an amazing sense of community that has developed from having so many like-minded individuals putting their all into making Long River Review as great as it can possibly be. Everyone is so committed, eager to take on work for the journal, and willing to help out whenever others end up with too much to manage at once. It’s incredible to see the amount of effortless collaboration amongst the staff and all the things it helps create, and I know the rest of our staff feel similarly. 

—Elijah Polance, Managing Editor

Where are you right now in the production cycle for your next issue?

We just concluded the reading period for our 29th issue, which will be released in late April, and have started deciding which pieces we will publish. 

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What do you think is the biggest challenge faced by undergraduate literary magazines?

Funding and finding an audience on campus outside of the already involved literary community seem to be universal dilemmas that undergraduate magazines must adapt to and overcome.