TRR Vol XIV Digital Edition Now Available!

Volume XV reading period now open; 2009 TRR Prize Judges announced!

Three Rivers Review of Undergraduate Literature is pleased to announce the opening of the reading period for its Fifteenth Volume, to be published April 2010. All work submitted prior to the January 15, 2010 deadline will be given consideration for the 2009 Three Rivers Review Prize for Poetry and Fiction. The Three Rivers Review Prize awards $250.00 to the winning submission, and $100.00 to a runner-up, in each category. TRR is honored to have the talents of Paula Bohince (poetry) and Olympia Vernon (fiction) as Prize judges for Volume XV.

Three Rivers Review of Undergraduate Literature is an annual student-run publication of the University of Pittsburgh Honors College. It seeks to enliven, foster, and publish the best undergraduate fiction and poetry in the Greater Pittsburgh area. It accepts submissions from undergraduate students at the University of Pittsburgh, all University of Pittsburgh Branch Campuses, and all institutions of post-secondary, undergraduate education in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Simultaneous submissions are not accepted; all work is reviewed in anonymity.

Submissions are opened & reviewed between September 15 and January 15 of each academic year. Responses to submitted work can be expected by March 15, following the reading period. Submit no more than 15 pages fiction (12 pt. type) or manuscript not exceeding 5 poems to:

Three Rivers Review
attn: Editor-in-Chief
3505 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

or, e-mail work as a Microsoft Word (.doc) file to:

ThreeRiversReview@gmail.com

Please provide a cover sheet including name, academic institution & year, contact information, and press-ready biographical statement.


About the judges:

Paula Bohince earned her BA from the University of Pittsburgh and her MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in publications including Ploughshares, Slate, and Southwest Review. She has received a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, and the Grolier Poetry Prize. Her debut collection, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (2008), is available from Sarabande Books.

Olympia Vernon holds an MFA from Louisiana State University. Her debut novel Eden (Grove Press, 2002) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also authored Logic (Grove Press, 2004) and A Killing in This Town (Grove Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence.

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Volume XIV Available Now!

Volume XIV of Three Rivers Review is now available! It features the work of the 2008 TRR Fiction & Poetry Contest Winners and Runners-up, as selected by International Poetry Forum Director Sam Hazo (Poetry) and Fiction Editor of The Kenyon Review, Geeta Kothari (Fiction). Congrats to Poetry Contest Winner Madeleine Barnes of Carnegie Mellon University and Poetry Runner-up, Katelyn Litterer of Pitt, as well as Fiction Contest Winner Peter Kusnic, and Runner-up Julie Sokolow - both Pitt students. Volume XIV also features the terrific work of David Bodarky, Dave Breingan, Jessica Dunewood, Lizzie Harris, Justin Hultman, Ryan Kauffman, Hong-Thao Nguyen, Ryan Rydzewski, and Jocelyn Sunseri. The issue also features
interviews with Pitt Alum/CMU Professor/National Poetry Series Poet Terrance Hayes and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning fiction writer Sabina Murray.

Copies of Volume XIV are available (free of charge!) at:

University of Pittsburgh Honors College, 3500 Cathedral of Learning
William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave.
Caliban Used & Rare Books, 410 S. Craig St. (Oakland)
Eljay's Used Books, 1309 E. Carson St. (South Side)

A digital edition will be made available on-line later in the year.

Happy reading!