Washington Square Review, summer 2022, out now

A town square is an open, public space, conceptualized to be the heart of a community. Here at the Washington Square Review, we see our name as a signpost that unifies location and purpose: a literary journal to serve as a meeting point for the many different people, ideas and artistic expressions that make up our community. In the Washington Square Review, we come together to explore and understand the words and worlds we can share when we value creative expression as a commons for us all.

Last year, Lansing Community College's ENGL department relaunched the Washington Square Review, LCC’s own literary journal. The journal is available on Amazon as both a paperback and an ebook. We are again accepting submissions and planning the publication of our second issue. 

In the past, the journal was limited to the LCC community. We have expanded submissions to include writers and artists beyond that limited community and are accepting submissions from all writers and artists. Expanding in this way serves LCC’s Guiding Principles and gives us the opportunity to provide voices to those not yet among us, those who don’t yet have a voice in a formal artistic community, and those typically left out or silenced by formal artistic communities. 

The journal hosts an annual public reading, Washington Square Reads, featuring authors from the journal and is also developing a radio segment, Washington Square On Air. 

For more information, contact the journal editors, Melissa Ford Lucken, via the contact info on this site or visit the website:  https://washingtonsquarereview.openlcc.net  

If you'd like to purchase a copy, visit Amazon: https://a.co/d/1bGZgM0