Written by: Lucy Lyttle Third Place Winner of the Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. […] Booming Ben, a solitary heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido), was last seen 11…
Letter from 1968
Written by: Karen Lau Second Place Winner of The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction “Mom, I’m at the state police barracks in Stafford Springs. I need you to come get me. Please.” My voice wavered on the last word as I held the telephone to my ear. She…
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What if the 8 Types of Students During Finals were Book Genres . . . ?
Written by: Fernanda Ieffet It’s almost finals week! Which means soon, people will be either walking around campus using every bit of energy they still have in their bodies, or hanging in there by their last straw: no in-between. I find it funny that during this time of the semester…
Gretel
Written by: Grace Carver First Place Winner of The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction The land was starved. And so, its people starved with it. The winter had been harsh, the fields suffocatingly white and uninhabitable, the hulking evergreens that surrounded the village heavy with ice. Gretel swore…
Opening
Written by: Charlotte Ungar Co-First Place Winner of the 2025 Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest Of all I forget, I remember, the almond blossom painting in your room, naked, your limbs sprawled out— eyeing those bending branches Coiling, climbing one another to end a flower. The blue between the…
LRRewind: Meet Catherine (2025 Winner of the Aetna Prize for Translations)
Tori: Hello listeners! Today I am here with Catherine Keough, the winner of the 2025 Aetna Prize for Translations. She recently translated a work by Grigory Sluzhitel, titled The Days of Saveli, and today we’re going to talk about her piece and her work with writing translations. Hi Catherine, do…
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3 Ways I Got Involved with Creative Writing as a Non-English Major
Written by: Emily Sharkis When coming to college, I was super unsure of what to major in. As a writer and a former huge bookworm, you’d think I would gravitate toward English. However, once I got to high school, my attention span dwindled and my attitude toward long-form literature became…
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5 Songs to Soothe Your Heartache
Written by: Ronnie Prado Humans need other humans to survive. As social beings we crave companionship, someone to hang out with, wake up next to. In short, everyone wants someone to love. Which is what making the end of a relationship and the ensuing heartbreak so painful. Everyone has their…
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Cooking and Connection
Written by: Margaret Devlin Once, a professor scribbled in the margins of my paper that it seemed like I had an obsession with food. Four weeks into the semester and I had already written poems on scrambled eggs, pesto, coffee creamer, and Thanksgiving dinner. These poems were about more than…
LRR Rewind: Charlotte & Jenna
Elijah: Hello, this is Elijah and I am here with Charlotte Ungar, another member of the Long River Review. Charlotte: Hi, I’m Charlotte. I’m really happy to be here. Elijah: So, Charlotte’s serving as the Poetry Editor and Consulting Translations Editor for the magazine. She also managed to…