Category Archives: What TRR Has Been Up To

Rising Rivers is a special project that Talking River Review is working on with Trestle Creek Review. This is an anthology of high school students’ prose, poetry, and art. We currently have 11 prose, 6 poetry, and 2 photography submissions, but we are looking for more! If you know any regional high school students whoContinue reading “Update on Rising Rivers”

Today, TRR spent the morning copyediting Issue 61. We’ll resume editing next week and will send along proofs for each contributor to approve before we go to print. This week, several team members also visited North Idaho College and the Trestle Creek Review team to formulate a plan for reading and editing submissions to theContinue reading “What TRR Has Been Up To”

This week, while Kinsey Cook, our graphic designer, is hard at work on a first draft of the proof for Issue 61, the TRR team has started reading submissions for Spring 2027, Issue 62. This is a reminder to all of our newsletter subscribers: We’re looking for submissions and would love to read your work.Continue reading “Notes from the TRR Team”

It’s almost midterm, and the TRR team has been busy! A couple of weeks ago, Stegner Lecturer Kimi Eisele visited our class, and we had a fantastic discussion about writing and publishing. If you missed the lecture, you can watch it on the Division of Arts, Letters, and Learning’s YouTube channel. Several team members areContinue reading “What TRR Has Been Up To”

Lanessa Watkins: Hello! I’m Lanessa Watkins, and I’m a senior majoring in Publishing Arts with a minor in Creative writing. I am also the president of TRR. I am super excited to be building Issue 61, and I’m even more excited to lead some top-secret TRR projects we have been designing over the summer! LandryContinue reading “Meet the Fall 2026 TRR Interns”

TRR editors, Jessica, Baeli, and Iden are graduating this year! We are so happy for them but sad to see them leave. Thank you for all you have done for TRR! A special thanks to Baeli, the graphic designer for TRR! The amount of work you put in is incredible.

The TRR team is happy to report that we’ve finalized all contributions to Issue 60. We’re going on spring break next week and are looking forward to working on the layout of the issue when we return.  We’re also excited to share that on Friday, April 10, award-winning, Moscow-based writer, Tara Karr Roberts, will be givingContinue reading “TRR Is Going on Spring Break!”

Our team is excited to be on spring break soon, but we will still be continuing our work on the current issue! This next week we are working through our last few poetry submissions to get us on track to lock down Issue 60 and move on to layout. You may have heard that weContinue reading “What TRR Is Up To”

Hello! We would love to take a minute and check in with our readers! During class today, we officially locked down all of the prose pieces for Issue 60. We have a great collection of fiction and non-fiction works. Next week, we hope to also lock down the poetry. We are so excited to be publishing work from many students, as well as theContinue reading “Mid-Term Check In”

Last Friday, February 27, the TRR interns–along with our friends from NIC and Trestle Creek Review–hosted LC State’s 3rd Annual Creative Writing Contest. Nearly 40 students from regional high schools attended the day-long event, which included four breakout writing sessions, a 1:1 workshop of the high school students’ creative works, lunch, and an awards ceremony in whichContinue reading “What TRR Is Up To”