Along with publishing emerging writers, one of the public roles and great pleasures of an independent, small literary journal is to nominate individual poems, essays, and stories for awards like the Pushcart Prize. This is one more way to say “thank you,” to the hard working writers, without whom LPR wouldn’t exist. These nominations also […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on May 14, 2012. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. This is what I wanted to do with my own stories: line up the right words, the precise images, as well as the exact and correct punctuation so that the reader got pulled in and […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on July 25, 2013. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. As a child, I rode everywhere on trains – Chicago, New York, even San Francisco, and that’s a darn long time on a train. My father worked for Amtrak; we rode for free. Train tracks […]
Read More…Along with publishing emerging writers, one of the public roles and great pleasures of an independent, small literary journal is to nominate individual poems, essays, and stories for awards like the Pushcart Prize. This is one more way to say “thank you,” to the hard working writers, without whom LPR wouldn’t exist. These nominations also […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on January 16, 2015. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. “I only know the joy of diving into the pure and essential world of the story.” ~ Kris Faatz A few days ago, a writer friend and I traded sympathy about the process. She said, […]
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