Wilderness House Literary Review # 18/3

WHLReview

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

TheWHLReview is published online quarterly. 

WHLR V3

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Editor & Publisher

Steve Glines 

Arts Editor

Bridget Seley Galway

Poetry Editor

Ravi Yelamanchilli

Fiction Editor

Ian Halim

Nonfiction Editor

Steve Glines

Book Reviews Editor

Doug Holder

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:

  1. very short stories less than 500 words in length

  2. short stories less than 1000 words in length

  3. 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 71th issue (Volume 18, no 3) 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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Table of Contents

Opine

Lots of stuff to read here

Is there such a thing as a literary boom? This is a huge issue. We were bombarded with submissions, more than triple out usual intake. Our fiction editor originally selected 42 stories he judged worthy enough for publication (out of nearly 100). He painfully cut that down to just 15. The same thing happened to our poetry editor but he just cut, cut, cut.

Our “Poet in residence,” Tomas O’Leary, who’s never actually visited us out here in the boonies has sent us a magnificent portfolio of delightful poems. He does that periodically. Charles Hayes sent us two stories this issue. We think he’s slowly publishing an autobiography here, one story at a time. In one issue he’s in Vietnam, another the Philippines, still another in Appalachia. Someone should start an office pool betting on where he’ll finally settle down. And so it goes.

In the bigger world very little has changed. The Ukraine war is still going on and NATO is still largely unengaged, thankfully or maybe not. Friends of ours, both active duty and retired U.S. Military officers think it’s only a matter of time before the ship hits the sand. And finally, The Donald is, well, still The Donald. Wake us up if anything changes.

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Art



 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.



Fiction



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

 

 



Poetry

 

 

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

 

 

 

 

Reviews

For many more book reviews we'd like to point you to The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

 

WHLReview is brought to you by:


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Dosha

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
by Sonia Meyer

Office
By Susan Isla Tepper

Mitchell

What Drives Men
By Susan Tepper

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

Daly
Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

 

 

 

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