Contributor copies!
Books have arrived. And they’re gorgeous! Contributor copies in the mail soon!
From all of us at the CLR, thanks to all of the amazing authors who trust us with their words.
2017 Reading Period
Our reading period for the 2017 issue has ended. We want to thank everyone who shared their work with us. Final selections are being made and notifications are coming soon. Our faculty and student editors look forward to publishing this year’s anniversary issue. Thank you for making this possible!
OPEN FOR 2017 SUBMISSIONS!
Our reading period for the 2017 volume of the Clackamas Literary Review is now open. This year’s issue marks our magazine’s 20th anniversary! To celebrate, we will feature select authors previously published in the CLR alongside new authors and work we can’t wait to read. Thank you for helping us celebrate 20 years of bringing writers and readers together!
Please visit our submissions page for guidelines.
CLR at Another Read Through bookstore!
Come support student publishing on Wednesday, May 25th, 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!
Compose!
CCC’s annual creative writing conference takes place this Saturday, May 14. Doors open at 9 am in Roger Rook hall. Join the English department for up to three workshops in fiction, poetry, publishing, and more. The CLR will have its own table at the event, complete with merchandise, back list editions, and plenty of copies of the new 2016 volume.
Sign up for Compose online or register on campus in the morning. We hope to see you there!
CLR 2016!
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!
2016 reading period
Our reading period for the 2016 issue has ended. We want to thank everyone who shared their work with us. Final selections are being made and notifications are coming soon. Our faculty and student editors look forward to publishing another stellar issue of incredible writing. Thank you for making this possible.
NOW OPEN FOR 2016 SUBMISSIONS!
We’ve opened up our reading period for the 2016 issue! Send us up to 3 poems, 1 prose work, or 1 possibility text before December 31. Check our submissions page for guidelines!
Ploughshares shares the love
Ploughshares selected Joanna Lynne Ponce’s story “Cafe con Leche” for its weekly “Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag” column. Thank you Ross McMeekin!
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