2008 Woodie Awards
Long River Review Releases Tonight
Freesia Singngam
Issue date: 5/1/08 Section: Focus
For over a decade, the Long River Review literary and arts magazine has provided an outlet for UConn students to publish their feelings on everything from coming of age to bad summer jobs.
Tonight at 6, the Long River Review will release this year's issue and even more emotion as selected authors read their work at a publication party in the Co-op. There will be copies available for sale for $5 and refreshments. This is the publication's 11th issue.
"There's a lot of effort that goes into the editing and publishing of a literary magazine," said Nathan Bean, a 4th-semester special education major and staff member of the publication. This class has spent the semester putting together the Long River Review, and we are excited that we finally get to release it."
The Long River Review includes a variety of literature and art, each piece reflecting a UConn student.
"It's definitely a reflection of the student body," said Nathan Herold, an 8th-semester English major and editor-in-chief of the magazine. "There's a good variety of topics."
One of Herold's goals for this year's publication was to balance light-hearted pieces with the darker, more depressing ones. He believes this issue achieves that.
The issue includes themes of adolescence, innocence and growing up as well as poems about heartbreak. One of the more emotional pieces is about a man who works in a Russian factory. Herold wrote a short story about childhood love as a boy meets a girl in a park.
Herold has been on the magazine's staff for three years, and he believes this is the best issue so far, he said.
Literature and art were submitted to the magazine in February. The published pieces were chosen for their quality and uniqueness, Herold said. The staff chose some interesting forms of poetry, some of which were a mix of poetry and prose. The art includes both photography and prints.
This year, because of a $5,000 donation, the Long River Review was able to publish a full-color cover and 500 more copies than last year. There are 1,250 copies total, some of which will be donated to soldiers in Iraq and women's centers. They will also be available for sale to the public at the Co-op.
Contact Freesia Singngam at
Freesia.Singngam@UConn.edu.
Tonight at 6, the Long River Review will release this year's issue and even more emotion as selected authors read their work at a publication party in the Co-op. There will be copies available for sale for $5 and refreshments. This is the publication's 11th issue.
"There's a lot of effort that goes into the editing and publishing of a literary magazine," said Nathan Bean, a 4th-semester special education major and staff member of the publication. This class has spent the semester putting together the Long River Review, and we are excited that we finally get to release it."
The Long River Review includes a variety of literature and art, each piece reflecting a UConn student.
"It's definitely a reflection of the student body," said Nathan Herold, an 8th-semester English major and editor-in-chief of the magazine. "There's a good variety of topics."
One of Herold's goals for this year's publication was to balance light-hearted pieces with the darker, more depressing ones. He believes this issue achieves that.
The issue includes themes of adolescence, innocence and growing up as well as poems about heartbreak. One of the more emotional pieces is about a man who works in a Russian factory. Herold wrote a short story about childhood love as a boy meets a girl in a park.
Herold has been on the magazine's staff for three years, and he believes this is the best issue so far, he said.
Literature and art were submitted to the magazine in February. The published pieces were chosen for their quality and uniqueness, Herold said. The staff chose some interesting forms of poetry, some of which were a mix of poetry and prose. The art includes both photography and prints.
This year, because of a $5,000 donation, the Long River Review was able to publish a full-color cover and 500 more copies than last year. There are 1,250 copies total, some of which will be donated to soldiers in Iraq and women's centers. They will also be available for sale to the public at the Co-op.
Contact Freesia Singngam at
Freesia.Singngam@UConn.edu.
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