We’re a month into school and summer is long gone. But we want to see you write a poem about summer, about the memories, the fragments, a slow steady descent into insanity, a slow steady ascent into exuberance, anything that details what summer is to you, was to you, or will be to you when you hit May next year.

Guidelines and Miscellaneous Information:

• You must incorporate this picture into the text of your poem, i.e. your poem must be based on this picture (click on it for a high-res version):
  
• You may submit up to 3 poems, any form. Single-spaced, no crazy fonts please, in either .doc (no .docx), .rtf, .txt, or .pdf as attachments. Total length of combined poems must not reach over 5 pages. Please put the title at the beginning of every poem and your last name at the top of every page.
• Submit to daniel.gregory@uconn.edu with the subject heading: Summer’s Over Poetry Contest. In the body of the e-mail, please provide your contact information, i.e. your name, preferred e-mail, and phone number, in case we are unable to reach you.
• This contest is open to everyone, not just those affiliated with UConn. All ages, all communities are encouraged to submit.
• We will be accepting submissions from today, Monday, September 29, 2009, until Friday, October 9th, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST. One Winner, one runner-up, and three honorable mentions will be announced Monday, October 12th, 2009, along with a new Halloween-themed contest.
• The contest will be judged anonymously by a panel of former Long River Review staffers and current Creative Writing students.Prizes, you ask? We have signed books and you’ll have the opportunity to be a featured reader at one of our Long River Live! events this semester, in addition to having your poem published on this very site!

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate. E-mail daniel.gregory@uconn.edu

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It’s been a few months since we’ve been active, since the launch of the 2009 edition of Long River Review (available at the UConn Co-op, hint, it makes a great birthday present). Despite our well-rested absence (and the 3,687 spam comments that must be purged), we are now back with plenty of events to busy all readers and writers alike. Check out our calendar at creativewriting.uconn.edu. Tonight at 7 p.m. at the CLAS Stern Lounge, we will be starting up the brand-new, reinvented Long River Reading Series, reborn as Long River Live!, a multi-genre fiesta of performances. This Thursday at 6 p.m., at the UConn Co-op, we will be graced with Heidi Pitlor as part of our Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write program. More details at the aforementioned UConn Creative Writing site for both events.

We’ll be making a few changes to the site over the next couple of weeks. But I will say this now, “ATTENTION: If you are a student, professor, or have some affiliation with UConn, we want to see your words here. The Creative Writing community needs your voice! Submit articles, blog entries about CW events, anything writing related, send to daniel.gregory@uconn.edu!”

Our first event was a reading by UConn regular Doug Anderson on September 15, from his new memoir, Keep Your Head Down. He shocked, he awed, and we’ve got the video to prove it!

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