This year Orca Book Publishers is launching Naming the Baby to celebrate the best writing from the first thirty issues of The Claremont Review. Naming the Baby is an outstanding collection featuring the poetry and fiction of some of the most talented adolescent writers of the last fifteen years, manyof whom have gone on to careers in writing and whose novels and poems now grace bookshelves across the continent.

Is it important to publish? Yes. When your best friend says, hey, that's a great poem or wow, what a neat story, you feel a certain amount of pride, but when your work gets accepted by a neutral party, say by one of the crusty editors of The Claremont Review, that recognition may be all you need to keep going. Writing takes work. It takes courage, too. We appreciate that courage and we'll do our best to make sure your writing gets the recognition it deserves.

“Truth is I'm a wrist-twisting good time / full of tongue-splitting ecstasies and pavement-tasting tendencies"

Grin, by Courtney Mahrt