Come support student publishing on Wednesday, May 25^th, from 7-8. Paulann Petersen, Stacey Allen Mills, and Margaret Malone will be reading from their work. Parking is limited, and the reading space is not wheelchair accessible. Light refreshments will be provided. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

We can’t wait to see you there!

The 2016 volume of the Clackamas Literary Review has arrived!

This year we feature spectacular new work from artists we are thrilled to publish: Blaise Allen, Kristy Athens, Morris Collins, Asha Dore, Nausheen Eusuf, Alexis Fedorjaczenko, Ruth Foley, M.K. Foster, Jonathan Greenhause, Luke B. Goebel, Meredith Hamilton, Toni Hanner, Maya Hickman, Alex Andrew Hughes, Jamie Iredell, Michael Johnson, J.M. Jones, Cindy King, Jen Knox, Donald Levering, Jacob Lindberg, Jennifer Zeynab Maccani, Margaret Malone, Todd McKie, Mary Miller, Stacey Allen Mills, Sonnet Mondal, Jed Myers, Robert Nazarene, Randolph Parker, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Paulann Petersen, Oliver Rice, Matthew Robinson, Ruben Rodriguez, Frank Rossini, Mike Salisbury, Cameron Schott, Adam Tavel, Ed Taylor, Katie Todd, James Valvis, Dennis Vanvick, Dov Weinman, John Sibley Williams, Joan Wilking, Andrea Wyatt, and A.R. Zarif.

Published annually by students and faculty at Clackamas Community college, the associate editors of this year’s CLR include Marlene Broemer, Trista Cornelius, Sean Davis, Trevor Dodge, Jeff McAlpine, Nicole Rosevear, and Amy Warren. This faculty support is incredible, and necessary to the amazing work we do in the English department at CCC. Thank you!

It would not have been possible to publish this magazine without the exceptional collaboration of students in WR246: Editing and Publishing. This year’s assistant editors include Becca Aguilar, Joe Ballard, Julia Berezhnoy, Tom Boggess, Eric Bronson, Janel Brubaker, Jack Eikrem, Ashley Goolsby, Rebekah Lee, Victoria Marinelli, Delilah Martinez, Colton Merris, Shilo Niziolek, Alexa Short, Natalie Spitzer, and Chelsea Thiel. You are the reason this artifact exists. You did the work. Together. And you should be proud. On behalf of readers everywhere, thank you!

Absolutely thrilled today to announce the arrival of the brand new issue of CLR! This year the magazine adopted a gorgeous, full-color format with incredible new work from Rafael Alvarez​, Matt Bell​, Susannah Breslin​, S. Cearley, Kim Chinquee​, Susan DeFreitas​, Steve Denniston, JJ Chen Henderson, Shane Hinton​, Lily Hoang​, William Jolliff, Kelly Jones, Dana Koster, Michael Mejia​, Lydia Netzer​, Wendy C. Ortiz​, Joanna Lynne Ponce, Jay Ponteri​, Daniel Romo, Lois Rosen​, Kevin Sampsell​, Tom Saya, Katherine Clarke Sinback, Noel Sloboda, Ben Slotky, Aron Nels Steinke, Julia Stoops, Rosalyn Stovall, Nick Triolo, Vandoren Wheeler​, Robert Wrigley​, and John Yohe.

None of this would have been possible without the awesome crew we had this year. Big, big thanks to Marlene Broemer, Trista Cornelius​, Sean Davis​, Sue Mach​, Jeff McAlpine​, Nicole Rosevear​, and Matt Warren for digging through the slushpile with me. And even bigger thanks to Matt’s incredible production and layout crew from ENG246: Samantha Batey, Donald Beach​, Julia Berezhnoy, Janel Brubaker, Vitaliy Burlaka, Angela Douglass, Chelsie Gaither, Leslie Garrick, Elissa Johnson, Vera Johnson, Victoria Marinelli, Delilah Martinez, and Shilo Niziolek.

And extra special notes of thanks to Ryan Davis​, the CCC English Department​, and Clackamas Community College​ for all your help and support!

   

CLR 2011, ISBN: 978-0-9796882-3-2

CLR 2012, ISBN: 978-0-9796882-4-9

CLR 2013, ISBN: 978-0-9796882-5-6

CLR 2014, ISBN: 978-0-9796882-6-3

Please order them through your favorite online bookseller!

The 2010 Issue of CLR features beautiful cover art by Renee Taylor Boeckman and a wonderful collection of essays, poems, and stories from a stellar lineup of authors:

Jodi Adamson, Kristin Berkey-Abbott, Laurie Blauner, Randy Blythe, Wanda Lea Brayton, Traci Brimhall, Bryan C. Brunton, Ben E. Campbell, Carol Carpenter, John Randolph Carter, Stephen W. Carter, Christine (Hope) Starr Davis, Rachel de Baere, Renee Emerson, Judson Evans, Rebecca Foust, Laura Gamache, Jonathan Greenhause, Robert H. Guard, Lara Gularte, Pamela Gullard, Kathleen Haley, Daniel Harrington, Kelly I. Hitchcock, Karen Holmberg, Christopher Howell, Lori Kagan, Noel Kalenian, Robert King, W.K. Lawrence, D. Lifland, Christina Lloyd, Jerome Long, Raymond Luczak, Stephen Massimilla, Lloyd Milburn, Ann Minoff, Linda Lancione Moyer, James B. Nicola, Darlene Pagán, Raegen Pietrucha, Jenny L. Rife, Matthew Campbell Roberts, Justin Rogers, John J. Ronan, Joanna Rose, Amy Schutzer, Judson Simmons, David Spiering, Dorothy Stroud, Robert J. Tillett, Will Tyler, James Valvis, Paul Weidknecht, and Lindsay Wilson.

CLR is available through your favorite online bookseller–ISBN: 978-0-9796882-2-5

Please order your copy so you can see just how wonderful these authors are!