Naugatuck River Review

We’re working on the Summer 2012 issue right now.
The 4th annual Narrative Poetry Contest will be open for submissions from July 1, 2012 to Sept. 1, 2012. Our final contest judge this year will be Pam Uschuk. Keep posted for more news of the contest and the next issue. Meanwhile, the Winter 2012 issue is out and available. Go to our SUBSCRIPTION   page to order or renew a subscription.
You can now download a pdf version of any of our past issues for only $1 – $1.25 or buy a print copy for only $10 plus shipping from our Lulu.com store. Just CLICK HERE or go to the tab above that says BUY PAST ISSUES!

Congratulations to Pamela Uschuk, whose book “Crazy Love” won the 2010 American Book Award!

Heather Cousins’ first book, “Something in the Potato Room” won the 2010 Kore Press First Book Award. Congratulations, Heather!

Jeanann Verlee’s first book, Racing Hummingbirds, is a Silver Medal winner for the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards! Congratulations, Jeanann!

Congratulations to our readers who came out to the Bowery Poetry Club to read on May 17th. I would also like to thank everyone who stopped by the table at AWP, and especially my poets who read at our amazing off-site reading and helped at the table. Naugatuck River Review poets rock!

Subscriptions are available for the low, low price of $20 for one year (2 issues), $35 for two years!

Thank you all for your friendship and support!

We had a most extraordinary reading on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the Forbes Library in Northampton. Readers include Tom Moore, Kathryn Neel, Barbara Benoit, Janet Barry, Sally Bellerose, Sharon Charde, Floyd Cheung, Gineen Lee Cooper, Andrea Cousins, Oonagh Doherty, Pat Hale, Mary-Catherine Jones, Ellen LaFleche, Jendi Reiter, Martina Robinson, Laura Rodley, Wendy Green Simpson, Tommy Twilite and Lori Desrosiers.

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We will be contributing 10% of the sale of all journals in 2010 to Partners in Health for Haiti earthquake relief.
Please SUBSCRIBE to Naugatuck River Review to get both the Winter 2010 and the Summer 2010 issues.

The Winter Contest issue of Naugatuck River Review will be released by the end of January. The contest issue features superb narrative poetry by our contest winners, finalists and semi-finalists. Subscribe to NRR today – $20 gets you one full year for $10 off the newsstand price. Each issue of Naugatuck River Review reads like a collection of beautifully crafted short stories in poetry. Subscribe to NRR.

Thanks to the poets and all our wonderful readers.

Submissions are now open for the Summer 2010 issue. See information below to submit.

Submissions for the Summer 2010 issue of Naugatuck River Review are now Closed

Next submission period will be for the Winter 2011 CONTEST issue and will begin on July 1, 2010 – Sept. 1, 2010
We accept electronic submissions only through our online submission manager. See the submissions page for guidelines.

Accepted contributors will be rewarded with a copy of the journal. We are not in a position to pay you, but hope the journal is worth much more than the cost of its paper.

During the submission period ONLY please submit no more than 3 NARRATIVE poems of no more than 50 lines through the online submission manager. Please remove your name from your file, as the poetry is read blind. Questions? Feel free to email Lori Desrosiers, Publisher, at naugatuckriver@aol.com.