Leigh Curran is a playwright, actor, poet, and former director of the Virginia Avenue Project, a non-profit dedicated to teaching writing, improvisation, and theater to low-income children. I can speak to Leigh’s improvisation and poetry classes, which inspired my personal, life-long passion for the arts and desire to bring that passion to others. Her work […]
Read More…The Treitels Remembered A memoir to be published this week by Bloomsbury Publishing – The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life: An Instructional Memoir for Prose Writers by Stephanie Vanderslice – features a reminiscence of Margot and Ralph Treitel, the Columbia couple who founded the Little Patuxent Review. Vanderslice, director of the Arkansas Writer’s MFA Workshop […]
Read More…Hailey Foglio was one of the contributors in our Summer 2017 Issue. She has graciously allowed us to reprint her short story here. We Are All Here “I wish someone would write something important on these.” Val runs his gloved fingers along crooked shapes carved into the bark of an oak tree. Kat + Mike […]
Read More…What do Salon.com, Vanity Fair, and the Little Patuxent Review have in common? Answer: all three got the same ranking in the Bookfox blogger’s ranking of the top literary magazines in the USA. Bookfox based his rankings on the number of appearances and mentions in the annual anthology Best American Essays. https://thejohnfox.com/ranking-of-literary-nonfiction/
Read More…LPR celebrates its writers for all of their imagination and craft. The editors have had the delightful challenge of selecting pieces for the pushcart nomination. Here are our choices. Congratulations to all of you! WINTER 2017 Poetry: “Black Light for Etheridge Knight” by Peter Marcus “The Wind Makes It Impossible” by Kendra Kopelke Fiction: “Fly […]
Read More…
Little Patuxent Review 