Wilderness House Literary Review

*Wilderness House Literary Review # 21/1*

WHLReview

145 Foster Street
Littleton MA 01460

The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.

TheWHLReview is published online quarterly.

To contact an editor simply click on a name below. To submit work to us please see "Submissions" below:

Editor & Publisher

Arts Editor/Curator

Poetry Editor

Fiction Editor

Nonfiction Editor

Book Reviews Editor

Submissions

Deadlines are as follows
March 1 – Spring
June 1 – Summer
September 1 – Autumn
December 1 – Winter

Please read this section before submitting work.

Please include some form of identification in the work itself.

All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word file uploaded through the system below. Please do not send us pdf files. We can't use them.

By submitting work to us you grant us a non-exclusive license to publish your work in any form we see fit. You may withdraw a submission up until the issue deadline (see above).

We don't pay so you retain all copyrights. If we publish your work online we may include it in a printed edition.

Poetry may be submitted in any length. Please don't submit 100 poems and ask us to pick 3.

Fiction may be submitted in three formats:

very short stories less than 500 words in length
short stories less than 1000 words in length
Short stories that don’t fit the above should be less than 3000 words.

We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally.

Please, one fiction submission only per author, per issue. If you submit multiple stories for a single issue, we reserve the right not to review additional stories you submit after the first one.

Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes. Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words

Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it..

Art: Minimun of 6 pieces. Please incluce a bio and statement about your work. Any form of art may be submitted with the constraint that it must be something that can be published in 2 dimensions. It’s hard to publish sculpture but illustrations together with some intelligent prose count.

Published works are welcome with proper attribution.

Please submit all works electronically. Click here to submit to Wilderness House Literary Review

Welcome to the 81th issue (Volume 21, no 1) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. WHLR is a result of the collaboration between a group of poets and writers who call themselves the Bagel Bards.

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It costs quite a bit of money to keep publishing WHLR - Please help us out if you can as every little bit helps.

Our ISSN number is 2156-0153.

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Table of Contents

Opine
Search
Art
Fiction

Essays
Poetry
Review
Cumulative Index

Opine

Spring

'Tis the season of hope. The little death that was winter gradually gives way to the crocuses that spring up through the final inches of snow. The robins are back. The vernal sun brings a new generation of hope while the leftovers, the decaying detritus of the previous year, festers, wilts, and rots, eventually providing food for the next generation.

But as Spring brings new life to the planet, the old rebel and demand an honorarium that would bleed the new growth dry. Rebellion is in the air. Eventually, the new growth will earn its place in the sun, and yesteryear will become nothing but a memory both good and bad.

By midsummer, all will become a dream, a dream of what will become and what was is relegated to the history books. We wish summer to come quickly. By then, let's hope the “papers” have served their purpose and are worthy only of the trash heap.

Search the house

Art

Nancy Lewis-Shell

Essay

There is, sometimes, a fine line between fiction and non-fiction. We have several essays that muddy that line, again. I've been assured by the authors that their stories rightly belong here and not in our fiction section. You can be the judge of that.