WHLReview

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Littleton MA 01460

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

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

Editor & Publisher

Steve Glines 

Poetry Editor

Ravi Yelamanchilli

Poetry Readers

Carol Smallwood
Teisha Twomey

Fiction Editor

Tim Gager

Nonfiction Editor

Steve Glines

Book Reviews Editor

Doug Holder

Arts Editor/Curator

 Steve Glines

Poet in Residence

  Tomas O’Leary

 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:

We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally.

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..

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 62nd issue (Volume 16, no 2) 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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Our ISSN number is 2156-0153.

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Table of Contents

Opine

and the fat lady can't sing ... yet

The world is a strange place right now. Here in New England almost everyone is vaccinated against the Covid19 virus. The vaccination rate is around 70% here in Massachusetts and over 80% in Vermont, the home state of Bernie Sanders. People have stopped wearing masks although this writer still keeps one in his back pocket, just in case. The world here in New England is slowly returning to a kind of normal. Our biggest concern last week was would the thunderstorms hold off until after the Tiki bar closed.

Covid19 no longer occupies the center of local political talk here. The big debate is over how many people will show up at the end of July to the town’s Triathlon and what to do about the mismanagement of the towns elderly housing project. It’s refreshing even if it’s disturbing. Some places in the world haven’t seen a single vial of a vaccine.

Some places in the world are seeing thousands of deaths … every day. The actual origins of the virus are still unknown and may never be known but the specter of another, more deadly, virus must be on the minds of anyone thinking about it. The “Spanish Flu” of 1918 is said to have killed over 50 million people world wide. The Black Death of the Middle ages killed between 75 and 200 million people, 1/3 of the worlds population. As of today, July 2, 2021 the web site https://www.worldmeters.info says that there have been 3,975,176 deaths worldwide with over 600,000 in just the United States alone. This pandemic is far from over even if the Tiki Bar has reopened.

Wilderness House is looking for an arts editor.

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Art

• Steve Glines - Plum Island at low tide

Fiction

For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:

Poetry

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

Reviews

WHLReview is brought to you by:

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
by Sonia Meyer

What Drives Men
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The Last of the Bird People
a novel by John Hanson Mitchell


Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

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