Do you find yourself needing a break from #Book-Tok? Ally LeMaster sheds some insight on what she predicts to be an upcoming trend in popular literature: author anonymity.
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LRRewind: Episode 2
Welcome back to our podcast! We’re beginning an exciting series of interviews with our incoming LRR staff members for the Spring 2023 semester. Episode two of the Long River Rewind features special guest Ally Carbutti, creative nonfiction panelist, copyediting lead, and self-proclaimed mosaic essayist.
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LRRewind: Episode 1
LRR is excited to launch the release of its brand-new podcast, the LRRewind! Listen to episode one to hear about our vision for becoming a bigger and better literary magazine this spring…
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LGBTQIA+ Positive Media for Every Month: Cameron’s Queer Show Shortlist
Pride Month may be over, but Cameron Deslaurier has seven nourishing LGBTQIA+ positive shows to keep your pride up all year long.
“Haunted Ghosts” by Katya Lyashenko
Second place winner for The Jennie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction (2022) The thing about living long enough to see the aftermath (living longer than she ever thought she would), is that Josie doesn’t quite know what to do with herself anymore. There was always something before. Something to…
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Powerful Trilogies and Publishing Tips: An Interview with Caragh M. O’Brien
Caragh M. O’Brien is the author of two wildly popular YA dystopian trilogies: “Birthmarked” and “Vault of Dreamers.” Read on to learn more about O’Brien’s inter-genre, many-layered journey through the world of writing and publishing!
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The End Of The World Will Be Televised: Let’s Talk Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
For those unaware, the world is ending in Exandria. According to Cameron Deslaurier, “EXU: Calamity,” a thrilling D&D actual play miniseries, is a great way to experience a full story set in the Critical Role universe without committing to hundreds of hours of watch time…
“Moon-Stain and Crawdad Eater” by Charlie M. Case
CW: Death, Domestic abuse This is what is most important: the ache in scraped knees. The crawdads scuttling among river rocks. The groan of pipes in your cracked kitchen sink. Night stealing hours. Ponds like meters-wide tide pools. Mud stealing hours. The leak in your bedroom ceiling, the water damage…
“Knell Inevitable” by Charlie M. Case
CW: Illness, Death It came to me on the sixth night of my sickness, when the suffering had ceased to be new. I had been lulled into those familiar throes which, now that I was accustomed to them, deceived me into thinking that they were kinder. In came something—and I…
“When Treading Water Above a Bottomless Pit” by John Guillemette Jr.
Contest Winner for the Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing (2022) I moved to Oregon during the dreadful forest fires of 2020. I moved out of Oregon during the even more dreadful forest fires of 2021. I came and went in smoke so thick that nobody noticed. As my…
