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A Day with the Editors, A Night at a Reading
LPR editors Laura Shovan and Jen Grow (second row, far right) with Centennial High School Advanced Composition students (Photo: Jon Kolp) It takes audacity and faith in yourself to begin sending work...
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My Two Heads
Linda Joy Burke, Artscape, Baltimore, MD(Photo: Dianne Connelly) My first memory of a structured music environment comes from the fourth grade at Nativity, a Catholic school in Washington, D.C. The...
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LPR’s Exciting New Program for Young Writers
LPR is gearing up for our first-ever Middle School Writers Festival. It’s a project that will be driven by and generate enthusiasm for writing, but we also need some help from you to make it happen. To...
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Unleashing Monsters: The DC Youth Slam Team
Jonathan Tucker Jonathan Tucker is a transformative power on this planet. As a freshman, lost and lonely in a large student population at University of Maryland, I found my home at the Jiménez-Porter...
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A Visit to Magruder High
In April, Nonfiction Editor Emily Rich and Poetry Editor Laura Shovan visited Magruder High School. Students Megan Mitchell and Sam Lee each wrote essays highlighting the impact this visit had on them....
View ArticleTwo from LPR Visit Paul Rucker’s Exhibit in Richmond
In our Winter 2018 issue, LPR featured the art of Paul Rucker. Contributing editor Ann Bracken conducted an interview with Rucker, whose work was also featured in our issue launch. On May 5, Ann and...
View ArticleMeet the Neighbors: Q&A with Meera Trehan
Meera Trehan was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in nearby Virginia. After attending the University of Virginia and Stanford Law School, she practiced public interest law for over a decade before...
View ArticleOpportunity for Writers to Present at Gaithersburg Book Festival
Thank you to the Gaithersburg Book Festival for sharing this message about an upcoming opportunity for writers in the area: Join us at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 18, 2019, for a day-long,...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening: Q&A with Kathleen Hornig of the Baltimore Book Festival
The 23rd annual Baltimore Book Festival returns to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Friday, September 28 through Sunday, September 30. Produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, the...
View ArticleReview of How to Sit, by Tyrese Coleman
This book review is written by Raima Larter, a Little Patuxent Review fiction reader. Local publisher Mason Jar Press of Baltimore has just published the debut collection, How to Sit: A Memoir in...
View ArticleMeet the Neighbors: Literary Family at The Writer’s Center
This guest post comes from Zach Powers, the communications manager for The Writer’s Center (4508 Walsh St, Chevy Chase, MD 20815). When I came to The Writer’s Center in February 2018, I didn’t know...
View ArticleMeet the Neighbors: Q&A with Jen Michalski
Jen Michalski is the author of the novels The Summer She Was Under Water and The Tide King (both Black Lawrence Press), a couplet of novellas called Could You Be With Her Now (Dzanc Books), and two...
View ArticleMeet the Neighbors: Q&A with Lucy Bucknell of Writing Outside the Fence
Lucy Bucknell is the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for returning citizens in Baltimore. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review; The...
View ArticleFree Poetry Contest with Enoch Pratt Free Library — Deadline March 1
Little Patuxent Review reminds all its readers and contributors that we are sponsoring a free poetry contest for Maryland residents with the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The winning poem will be published...
View ArticleMeet the Neighbors: Q&A with Shaileen Beyer
Little Patuxent Review reminds all its readers and contributors that we are sponsoring a free poetry contest for Maryland residents with the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The winning poem will be published...
View ArticleInterview with Ned Tillman, Author of The Big Melt
This post comes from contributing editor Ann Bracken. Columbia resident, author, and environmental activist Ned Tillman has been unusually busy spreading the word about climate change to audiences all...
View Article“Furious Gravity”: Q&A with editor Melissa Scholes Young
Earlier this year, if there even was a 2020 before the pandemic, Melissa Scholes Young invited some of the Little Patuxent Review editors to American University to speak to the students in her Literary...
View ArticleThe Scheherazade Project: Q&A with founder Lisa Leibow
You know how sometimes you hear about a project that really grabs your attention? That’s The Scheherazade Project for me. The brainchild of authors Julia Alvarez and Lisa Leibow, The Scheherazade...
View ArticleMeet Steven Hollies: Q&A with the 2021 winner of the Enoch Pratt Free Library...
The Enoch Pratt Free Library represents the free public library system of Baltimore. To learn more about the annual poetry contest, and to read Steven Hollies winning Poem, “Body/Language”, click here....
View ArticleConcerning Craft: LPR in the Classroom
Professors Tara Hart, Sylvia Lee and William Lowe on The Little Patuxent Review as required text in creative writing courses ~ Since 2014, Howard Community College’s creative writing courses (HUMN-100...
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