fairybreeze LRR, April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 By Anh Lee 2nd place winner of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize We last beyond a century we are forgotten smelling of indigo bodies and abandoned plains enshrouded in sand We feel our desires flicker and wriggle perimeters kissed by thunder, shaped by doves and caressed by lingering legs We… Continue Reading
Newton Considers the Still Life LRR, April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 By Charlie M. Case Winner of The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction (1st) Some kind of sweet thing takes hold of you in the late summer. It’s not much. You take it for nostalgia—standing in the pick-your-own orchard, your family and best friend flitting about selecting perfect… Continue Reading
Blog A Year In Review LRR, April 26, 2024February 8, 2025 Written By Ally LeMaster A Year In Review: Long River Review has been a literary tradition at the University of Connecticut since 1997. This week, our staff published Issue 27, which highlights a diversity of stories ranging from topics of the generational impact of immigration to the… Continue Reading
Aromantic’s Apotropaic LRR, April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 By Charlie M. Case (with a borrowed line from Nicky Beer) Winner of The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Awards (Poetry) This is not something anyone can eke out of me, so stop asking. Put your hands on me and don’t misinterpret—let me touch you only so we… Continue Reading
The Cardinal Girl LRR, April 26, 2024 By Sarah Kelly Winner of The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Awards (Prose) There was a cardinal who used to perch in the ash tree next to my apartment building. I could look out my window in the morning and see it as I made another ration of… Continue Reading
Displaced LRR, April 25, 2024 By Zeynep Özer Winner of The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award Three Women That’s when they started talking. Not when the man with the gun walked into the puddle of blood. Puddle of his wife’s blood. Not when the puddle turned cold turned light painted sirens red and blue. But when… Continue Reading
First Motel LRR, April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 By Krista Mitchell Winner of The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction (3rd Place) The First Motel Off the Highway Bethlehem, NH. August 1956. She held a hand to her forehead to shield her bloodshot eyes as she turned off the highway, the windshield glittering with flecks of… Continue Reading
Arboreal: A Field Log LRR, April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 By Zeynep Özer Winner of The Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing 1 There is a tree on my way home. It’s planted towards the middle of the sidewalk. The road, otherwise pedestrian, makes a sharp curve around it so that one would have to change their course significantly… Continue Reading
The Mule (2024) LRR, April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 By Ashley Pizzo A translation of “Lu sceccu” by Ignazio Buttitta Winner of The Aetna Translation Award The poor thing carries the chain, and stupidly, he bears it. Shackled from dusk ‘till dawn, to and from the mill he is drawn and quartered, as the master, broom in hand,… Continue Reading
Little Loves (2024) LRR, April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 By Gabrielle WincherhernWinner of The Aetna Creative Nonfiction Award On some level, you always thought love was going to be the thing that saved you. Maybe it started with the fairy tales, the movies. The Princess and the Pauper. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Barbie and the Diamond Castle…. Continue Reading