Welcome to the SR Blog!

While we work on preparing for the launch of Saranac Review 17, our inaugural online issue—December 9, mark your calendars!— our editorial staff has another project in motion: the new Saranac Review Blog! Starting this week, initial posts will be by our incredible editorial assistants, SUNY Plattsburgh students in our Editing and Publishing seminar.

We hold classes two times a week in a dim and chilly basement room plastered with signs commanding us all NOT TO MOVE THE FURNITURE. (The furniture in question: chairs cracking and disintegrating as we sit on them and a table too heavy to lift, let alone move.)

I’ve never loved a classroom more. Seemingly forgotten both by maintenance staff and any rational professor in search of a comfortable instructional environment, the room has become the de facto headquarters for our beloved and underfunded (ie not funded) magazine, and it’s where I’ve been lucky to meet the writers and readers you are about to meet: students who balance intense work schedules with challenging academic course loads, students who think deeply about writing and reading and why they matter, students who finally got me on TikTok this fall and remind me every day that I somehow lived for almost two decades without ever touching a computer.

Over the course of this Fall 2022 semester, our editorial assistants have served as meticulous first readers of our submissions, and they’ve helped to shape the journal Saranac Review is becoming. Every day I step into our classroom, I feel lucky to work with them to help nurture our literary community at the college and beyond. And I can’t wait for you to hear from them.