Pushcart Nominations

If you’ve been reading along this year with Little Patuxent Review, you know we’ve had an incredible bevy of talent from which to pull our annual Pushcart nominations, due today. Our entire staff and volunteer readers shared their feedback to create a comprehensive submission. Congratulations to all our nominees! Winter 2015 Issue Matthew Westbrook, “The Family […]

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Concerning Craft: Making “Macular Conception”

The “Concerning Craft” series introduces Little Patuxent Review contributors, showcases their work and draws back the curtain to reveal a little of what went into producing it. I’m a crime TV junkie, and some of the most disturbing stories I’ve ever watched involve fetal abductions: the kidnapping of an unborn child, usually by removal of the […]

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The Reverse Outline

The late Terry Prachett wrote, “Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees.” I don’t know about you, but once I became a serious writer, my reading habits shifted. No longer did I waste time reading poor prose and gorgeous sentences could stop any forward momentum as I decoded their construction. Chekov, Doctorow […]

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A Partial List of Voices I Stole

The “Concerning Craft” series introduces Little Patuxent Review contributors, showcases their work and draws back the curtain to reveal a little of what went into producing it. An excerpt from “Lease,” which appears in Little Patuxent Review’s Summer Issue: What Miss Allens don’t realize is eleven is just two ones next together. Mean, she don’t know […]

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The Emma Project

Dr. Juliette Wells, Chair of the English department at Goucher College and resident Jane Austen specialist, has a strong interest both in Austen’s writing and in the broader context of her life and times. Dr. Wells also remains fascinated with Austen’s continuing influence on modern readers and writers. In 2012 she published her first book, […]

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