Clackamas Literary Review

20/04/2024

You'll be there, right?

11/04/2024

Almost time...

02/01/2024

Thanks to all the writers and poets who submitted work for the 2024 issue! We can't wait to publish!!

12/09/2023

Here we go again! Please visit our website for 2024 submission guidelines. We can't wait to publish!

Clackamas Literary Review accepts submissions of poetry, prose, and possibility texts between September 1st and December 31st each year. Per reading period, please send only one piece of prose or …

16/05/2023

It's our birthday. Volume XXVII--2023!!

16/04/2023

Join the CLR at this year's Compose Creative Writing Conference, Saturday, May 20th!

11/04/2023

Our 2023 galley copy has arrived! A special thank you to this year's cover artist, Tessa Broadie, for her beautiful drawing. And an extra special thanks to the incredible CCC student editors for their tireless work bringing this book into the world. THANK YOU!!

07/01/2023

Our thanks to the writers and poets who submitted their work for our 2023 issue! Publishing begins this month. We can't wait!!

05/09/2022

Our 2023 issue is open for submissions! Check out our website for details:
https://clackamasliteraryreview.wordpress.com/submissions/

Clackamas Literary Review accepts submissions of poetry, prose, and possibility texts between September 1st and December 31st each year. Per reading period, please send only one piece of prose or …

21/06/2022

Thanks to the students in WR 250 who worked on promotion for this year's issue of the CLR!

Check out our website for new interviews with 2022 contributors Cecil Morris, Mercedes Lawry, and Sue Fagalde Lick!

https://clackamasliteraryreview.wordpress.com/resources/author-interviews-news/

01/06/2022

Help us say Happy Birthday to our Clackamas Literary Review - 2022!!

25/05/2022

Contributor copies have arrived!

01/04/2022

Our 2022 galley has arrived!! Thank you to our cover artist, Kayla Meyers, for her beautiful artwork: PRIDE.

07/11/2021

The submission window for our 2022 issue is still open! Check out our website for options:

https://clackamasliteraryreview.wordpress.com/submissions/

Clackamas Literary Review accepts submissions of poetry, prose, and possibility texts between September 1st and December 31st each year. Per reading period, please send only one piece of prose or …

07/11/2021

Congratulations to 2021 contributor Susanne Davis! Her upcoming novel GRAVITY HILL was runner up for the Blue Moon Literary Competition. Check it out:

https://susannedavis.com/books/gravity-hill/

Gravity Hill tells of a small town in Connecticut that is wracked by the tragic deaths of three boys on Gravity Hill. Were they drunk?

03/09/2021

Volume XXVI: we're open for submissions!
https://clackamasliteraryreview.wordpress.com/submissions/

Clackamas Literary Review accepts submissions of poetry, prose, and possibility texts between September 1st and December 31st each year. Per reading period, please send only one piece of prose or …

01/05/2021

Today’s a big day. Help us say Happy 25 to the Clackamas Literary Review!

21/04/2021

From the 2021 volume:

In her poem, “38th and Chicago, Mpls., MN,” Karen Sandberg writes: “The closer I get…I see…I hear…” That’s right: The closer we get…

21/04/2021

Check out this link to CCC's annual Compose Creative Writing Conference. May 15th. Fully online. And FREE!

https://www.clackamas.edu/landing-pages/compose-creative-writing-conference

Explore the practices and professions of creative writing and publishing at Clackamas Community College's annual compose writing conference.

08/04/2021

Congratulations to 2011 CLR contributor, Gina Troisi, on her memoir THE ANGLE OF FLICKERING LIGHT, just released from Vine Leaves Press. Check it out!

https://gina-troisi.com/

HomeThe Angle of Flickering Light will be released April 6, 2021. NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER:   Praise for The Angle of Flickering Light: “The psychological abuse Troisi endured as a child had my fists clenching in rage. It is almost a relief when she at last finds escape – in drugs, in codepen...

28/03/2021

It’s here!

The 2021 galley of the Clackamas Literary Review has arrived!! So many thanks to the dedicated crew of assistant editors who did the hard work of publishing. They navigated a virtual classroom, lost a week due to an historic ice storm, and yet still managed to publish another incredible issue of our beloved CLR.

Volume 25 is alive!!

31/12/2020

Just one more day left for submissions.

And then we publish.

And the cover of volume XXV will read: 2021.

https://clackamasliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit?fbclid=IwAR2-LShoyA1PCJEp-49Ni2cGBA-GILdNlWfY5sl0dTwWMf77nGRnZ2tREH4

CLR is a non-profit, national literary arts magazine that has been publishing poetry, prose, and possibility texts since 1997. We are a faculty-managed, student-run publication housed in the English Department at Clackamas Community College. Our reading period runs from September 1 to December 31, w...

02/12/2020

Less than a month to go to submit work for consideration in the 2021 issue. We can't wait to publish this book!!

https://clackamasliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit

CLR is a non-profit, national literary arts magazine that has been publishing poetry, prose, and possibility texts since 1997. We are a faculty-managed, student-run publication housed in the English Department at Clackamas Community College. Our reading period runs from September 1 to December 31, w...

13/10/2020

Congratulations to 2020 CLR contributor Joseph Harris on his debut collection of short stories, YOU’RE IN THE WRONG PLACE, available now from Wayne State University Press!

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/youre-wrong-place

In a thrilling interconnected narrative, You’re in the Wrong Place presents characters reaching for transcendence from a place they cannot escape. Charles Baxter stated that "Joseph Harris has a particular feeling for the Detroit suburbs and the slightly stunted lives of the young people there. . ...

13/09/2020

Yep, we're still here with you. Let's do THIS:

https://clackamasliteraryreview.wordpress.com/submissions/

Clackamas Literary Review accepts submissions of poetry, prose, and possibility texts between September 1st and December 31st each year. Per reading period, please send only one piece of prose or …

23/07/2020

Congratulations to CLR contributor Douglas Cole on his debut novel, THE WHITE FIELD, forthcoming from TouchPoint Press! Check it out:

https://touchpointpress.com/authors/douglas-cole/

Douglas Cole has published six collections of poetry and a novella. His work has appeared in several anthologies and over 100 literary journals. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and Best …