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2020 Submissions Period Now Open!
We are now accepting high school and middle school poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and high-resolution art/photography for our 2020 summer print issue. The submission deadline is Friday, January 31. Those selected for publication in the literary categories will be invited to participate in our reading and release party. Please carefully read our guidelines on the submission page for important details, and reach out to [email protected] if you have questions!

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Reading and Release Party 5/21 Coming Up!
We are gearing up for our reading and release party and making final touches to the magazine. The staff is eager to share the quality work published in this year’s issue. Please join us for this pleasant event on Tuesday May 21 at 6:30 pm. Invite friends and family. Purchase tickets on our Indiegogo campaign page, or sponsor this year’s event by purchasing our bronze, silver, gold, or patron of the arts packages to help us raise our $700 goal. Hope to see you at the event. Happy Thursday.

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Reading and Release Party
Preorders for the 2019 Hanging Lantern Review Print Issue and tickets to the Spring Reading & Release Party (on Tuesday, 5/21 at Santa Margarita Ranch) are now available on IndieGogo! Place your order by May 20, 2019, and join us for a reading of this year’s beautiful poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from our local teen community. $15 gets you a ticket and a copy of Issue 7! IndieGogo page: https://igg.me/at/hanginglantern2019

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CONGRATULATIONS: SUBMISSION ACCEPTANCES
The time of year has come when we begin creating our magazine. There are fresh, new things ahead, folks. But first, we are ready to announce the pieces accepted into the magazine. Thank you to everyone who submitted their work-- we loved reading through every piece and it was truly a tough decision process. Again, congratulations to these excellent writers whose work was selected! Stay tuned for details on our Spring Reading and release party, where all our accepted writers will read a selection of their pieces.
High School Prose:
Fear and Loathing in a Coffee Shop-- Luke Rossi
Insanium-- Meg Campbell
Tales of Travel and Disbelief-- Jonah Jenkins
Home Sweet Home-- Indis Morris
High School Poetry:
Brown Hand-- Carina Womack
White with Heaven-- Katie Erb
Fugue-- Sadie Richert
Perspective on Halloween-- Lily Ronda
Desert-- Nate Theule
Middle School Prose:
Wotjek the Bear: Possibly the Best Animal to Ever Live-- Lily Stahnke
Middle School Poetry:
Ode to Goldfish Crackers-- Dylan Perneel
Rocks and Stones-- Kylie Womack
Valley of Diamonds-- Severin Lunceford
Waking Up-- Abe Newman

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FRIDAY FACES: GRACE CHENEY
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces. Meet our Print Intern (aka Printern), Grace Cheney.
What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
I love to read, sketch, hang out with friends, and occasionally write short stories.
What is your favorite book?
My favorite book might be The Fault in Our Stars, or maybe the Divergent series.
Top bunk or bottom bunk?
Bottom bunk all the way :)

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FRIDAY FACES: SIA FABER
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces. Meet our events coordinator, Sia Faber.
What is your favorite book?
My favorite book is the Hate List.
What is your pet peeve?
My pet peeve is when people ignore me.
Top bunk or bottom bunk?
Top bunk, but I am flexible.
What do you love to do in your free time?
I love to dance, draw, hang out with my friends, and do crafts.

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Contest Extended for Middle School Students
Attention middle school students! Because we are in need of more middle school submissions for our 2019 issue, we are extending our deadline just for YOU! We want to read your wonderful work, so please submit your work before March 1. We look forward to reading it!

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FRIDAY FACES: AVA FABER
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces. Meet our staff photographer, Ava Faber.
What is your favorite book?
Harry Potter.
What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
I love to dance, ride horses, and take photos.
If you could pick any superpower, what would you pick?
I would pick teleportation.
Top bunk or bottom bunk?
Top bunk.

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FRIDAY FACES: LILY RONDA
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces. Meet our Print Coordinator, Lily Ronda.
What is your favorite book?
My favorite book right now is IQ by Joe IDE, although I’m still in the middle of it.
What do you do in your free time?
I like most art; so painting, music, films, or writing, but mostly I spend my time hanging out with good beans.
Weird fact about you?
I get kinda freaked out by chins sometimes.
Top bunk or bottom bunk?
Top bunk, but I’m flexible.

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Contest Closed
Our contest is now closed! Thank you all so much who submitted; we are so excited to read your work. If you submitted, you will receive an email notifying the results around late March. Happy Tuesday!

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FRIDAY FACES: CARINA WOMACK
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces Meet our PR coordinator, Carina Womack. What do you enjoy doing on your free time? I enjoy babysitting, running and watching Netflix. I also love cleaning and organizing. What’s your favorite book? We just read Gunnar’s Daughter in English and I fell in love. It’s a devastating book, but the strength and resilience that the character shows is inspiring. What are you pursuing in college? Pre-med at California Baptist University. Top bunk or bottom bunk? Bottom bunk all the way.

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FRIDAY FACES: KATIE ERB
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces Meet our blog coordinator, Katie Erb.
What’s your favorite book? I'd have to say Les Mis--such a beautiful story of love, tragedy, and the human experience. I couldn't put it down (except for the Battle of Waterloo section, ha ha).
What do you enjoy doing on your free time? I love to sing (Les Mis musical included of course!) and music from some of my favorite artists--Norah Jones, Noah Gundersen, and Lake Street Dive. I also love hiking and doing yoga.
Are you a bottom bunk or top bunk person? Bottom bunks unite!

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Poetry Workshop
A few weeks ago, Hanging Lantern Review hosted an on-campus write-in workshop where students could come for a few hours, drink tea, and get creative juices flowing. The event was a hit-- lots of students came and had a relaxing morning with some exercises led by our Editor, Meg Campbell, and our Content Editor, Luke Rossi. Here is an abbreviated version of the poetry exercise Meg brought in to share, so you all can continue writing and submit to the magazine. The deadline is February 11, so if you are looking for some last minute inspiration, here you go! Thanks, Meg!
For this poetry writing exercise, we're going to start writing some prose. I know, I know, it seems counter intuitive, but track with me here. First, you're going to recall an experience you remember very vividly--got it? Now, go back through that memory and write down all your senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, sound. Other details? Great. Write 'em down as well. Now that we've got some raw material, it's time to ramble. Pretend like you just experienced this thing all over again, and you can't wait to tell your best friend all about it: run on sentences, fragments, repetition--it's all fair game. How did the sky look? How did the fair smell? Describe it as best you can. Give me some deets, you guys; we want a this to be a detailed ramble. Expand your thoughts and feelings and experience of that memory. Great, next step. It's time to cut. Skim through that ramble you just wrote out and highlight those key words, similes, metaphors, and bubbly details that are just so necessary to your story. You should end up with a list or grouping of words, phrases, and clauses. At last, the leap: stringing together those words into something coherent and grammatically correct (or not, if you're being like that) that tells a story and builds to a worthwhile conclusion at the end. Mold the words around experience; match line length to emotional memory; come to a conclusion about the greater human state or condition of the world or...well, come to whatever conclusion your poem leads you to! Lift up your eyes from your close observations and see the larger world in a new light. Best of luck, writers, and I hope to read your work in our 2019 edition of the Hanging Lantern Review!
Meg Campbell, Editor-in-Chief

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FRIDAY FACES: LUKE ROSSI
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces Meet our content editor, Luke Rossi. Favorite Book? Man, probably Grendel by John Gardner. Honestly I probably never would have picked it up if I hadn’t gone to SLOCA but it’s become a great inspiration for my own writing. I really love Gardner's style and creativity, especially for this book because it’s so well modeled after the original Beowulf epic. What do you enjoying doing on your free time? I’m a musician. I play guitar so often it’s a wonder I’m not better at it. It’s fun though and when I’m not writing the next big TV sensation it’s pretty much the only thing I do. Fun/weird fact? I tell the same joke to my friends at SLOCA every single day. You wanna hear the joke? Ok, here goes...My Ex wife still misses me…But her aim is getting better! If given the choice, would you choose the top bunk, or the bottom bunk? Bottom bunk.

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SUBMIT!!
Deadline is February 11. We would love to see your work!

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FRIDAY FACES: RILEY THOMPSON
Welcome to this week’s edition of #fridayfaces Meet our creative director, Riley Thompson
What’s your favorite book? Hands down My Antonia What is your dream job/career passion? I would like to be a graphic designer. What do you enjoy doing in your free time? In my free time I like to surf, hike, make art, play guitar and cook.

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