Written submissions for the 2011 issue of Long River Review are due 5 pm, Tuesday, February 8. Art submissions are due Thursday, February 17. Specific Information about submission guidelines can be found below.

On a separate note, if you’re planning to submit a really sad story, bring it on. We can use a good cry.

Written Submission Guidelines

Please submit up to 8 pages of poetry and/or up to 5000 words of a prose. No individual prose piece should exceed 2500 words. Do not submit previously published material.

Enclose with your submission a cover letter that includes your name, students ID number (peoplesoft number), address, e-mail, and phone number. On this cover page also include a brief biographical note. This will appear in the contributor’s notes at the end of the journal, should your work be published.

Submit four copies of each piece. If a single piece is more than one page long, please staple it. If you are submitting multiple pieces, separate like pieces into sets so that each set will include one copy of each piece. Please staple or paperclip these sets together. Your student ID must appear on every page of your submission. Your name should not appear on any page except the cover letter.

Please submit your material in a manila envelope. On the envelope please include your name and contact information and prominently indicate to which genre you are submitting. We accept poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. If you are submitting to multiple genres, please use a separate envelope for each genre that you submit to.

Submissions may be dropped off in the appropriately labeled box in the English Department Office, CLAS 208, or in the Freshman English Office, CLAS 162. They can also be mailed to:

Alternatively, submissions may be e-mailed to submissions@longriverreview.com. You may attach multiple submissions per email as long as they are the same genre. Clearly indicate in the subject to which genre you are submitting and please send your submission as a .doc (NOT .docx), .rtf, .pdf or .txt file.

All submissions are anonymously read by multiple editors. Final editorial decision is made by editor in chief. Notification of acceptance or rejection will occur two to five weeks after submission deadline. Please do not request information on the status of your submission until after this time. Upon acceptance authors will be asked to provide an electronic copy of the piece through e-mail or disc and will be asked to provide written consent permitting Long River Review to publish the piece.

Please direct any questions and concerns to Joe Welch, Editor-in-Chief, at itsjoewelch@gmail.com

Art Submission Guidelines

Files must be submitted on CD to the box in the Art Building Office, by February 17, 2011.

Submit art work based on the following specifications:

Photoshop tiff
5.75 inches (minimum width)
300 dpi

All entries must include a cover sheet with the following information: title of work, medium, your name, local address, local phone, email, student ID number, and short description of piece. Pieces will probably be printed in black and white. If color is an important element to your piece and you do not want it to be printed in grayscale then you must specify so.

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You made it, you’re done
with the finals, done
with the papers, done
with the blue books, the pencils, the classes;
you’re done, done, done, done.

But are you really?

Does education end
with graduation – are the two
synonymous and entwined?
Will you never
pick up a book again, will you never
write a story, will you never
learn for the sake of learning?
Will you never
see old friends, old lovers; will your
interests die and
never
be reborn? Will you get
a job and never
look back, never
wonder about what might have been,
what might still be? Will you never
regret being done?

I like to hope
that we will stay
in touch; I like to hope
that you will find a good book
and read it just for fun; I hope
you will stay active, I hope
you will create, I hope
that being done
doesn’t necessarily mean
that you’re through. 

Yours always,
UConn

-Tim Stobierski

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I’ve never been a person who enjoyed speaking in public. I’ve always hated reading selections out loud in class, I’ve always hated giving presentations in front of groups, I’ve always hated being where other people could look at me. Maybe that’s why I’ve always wanted to be a writer: I wanted to be able to say the things that I wanted to say without being in front of people while doing it, and books offered me that loophole.

Why, then, did I find myself just last week standing in front of a packed UConn Co-Op release party for The Long River Review with a microphone before me?

The simple truth of the matter is that writers can no longer simply be writers. Writers need to entertain, they need to attract readers, they need to sell. And, more often than not, this means standing in front of (hopefully) crowded bookstores or coffee shops or classrooms and reading bits of your work. It’s a way of getting your words out there where they may not otherwise have been heard. After all, readers are lazy. If they can have someone read to them, it saves them the effort of reading something themselves. They can focus on breathing, or gum-chewing, or that cute redhead in the third row. Or, if it’s boring, they can doze.

So that’s the reason I was up there reading my stuff last Thursday: I wanted people to want to read the rest of it. I wanted to tease them into buying my work. I wanted them to like what they heard.

It’s kind of funny that when you actually want something, it isn’t so bad doing what needs to be done to make it happen.

-Tim Stobierski

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