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WHLReview145 Foster Street Littleton MA 01460
The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.
The WHLReview is published online quarterly with a best of annual print edition.
Deadlines are as follows March 1 – Spring June 1 – Summer September 1 – Autumn December 1 – Winter
The annual edition will be published in October.
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All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word file sent as an attachment. We don't pay so you retain all copyrights.
Poetry may be submitted in any length.
Short 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 5000 words.
We also accept longer forms of fiction ocassionally.
Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes.
Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it.
Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words.
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.
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Welcome to the thirteenth issue (Volume4, no1) 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 (who have just published their latest anthology) and the Wilderness House Literary Retreat. All of the stories, articles, poems and examples of art have
been presented as PDF files, Portable Document Format. This is a format that
allows for a much cleaner presentation than would otherwise be available on
the web. If you don’t have an Adobe Reader (used to read a PDF file) on your
computer you can download one from the Adobe website. The files are large and we hope you will be patient when downloading
but we think the beauty of the words deserves a beautiful presentation.
Finally, the
copyrights are owned by their respective authors whose opinions are theirs
alone and do not reflect the opinions of our sponsors or partners. Let us
know what you think in our new Letters to the
Editor.
Enough housekeeping. We promised a printed version of Volume 1. Volume 2 is available HERE. Check the table of contents for your favorite author. We have also nominated some of our authors for the Pushcart Prize. Table of Contents
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Art This issue we have clips from a movie or at least clips from a movie in the making: Essays For some fishing is a reason to comume with nature, for others it's a reason to party for that select few it's a passion, a way of life. It's like that for David Joy: The early hisrory of Rock & Roll can be found in Lawrence Kessenich has a problem in Finally, Cathleen Twardzik sent us this essay Fiction
Our prizewinner is Jessica Keener whose short story "Solo" was arguably the best piece of short fiction we published in Volume 3.
Susan Tepper has been sending us stories from her "Deer collection." She has enough of them to fill a book so we will be publishing them in book form this summer. Look for an announcement here. In the mean time here is another story from the collection called Blue Skies For your further reading pleasure we have: Alexandra Isacson -
Paris Porn Poetry
It's not often that we get something as remarkable as a new translation of Homer but that's exactly what we have. The author is a serious academic who tell us that traditional translations don't give the modern reader a sense of the story. This “transduction” is written in a more current idiom. The author tells us, “any explanation is simultaneously easy and difficult to state. Subjectively easy because, in my experience, the Iliad is the most beautiful poem yet danced or sung by woman or man. Objectively difficult for the same reason. The Iliad deals with the disastrous consequences of human emotion as played out on the violent plain of Troy. An emotional core bleeds through and suffuses the martial panorama. Why did I endeavor to mess with the Greek? Originally I was curious about Homer's so-called epithets (among other things), compound and simple adjectives that hug certain nouns, common and proper, such as 'wine-dark' sea or 'white-armed' Here. As soon as I started working my way through the Iliad's Ionic dialect, Homer wouldn't let go. The poem's rhythm and melody interpenetrate in a unique way, ever driving the robust narrative on. It might be said that Hopkins' exquisite syncopated rhythms and Swinburne's ecstatic prolix melodies have influenced my mode of rendition. I do admire and respect certain previous responses, translations, or accounts of the poem, but I love the original, and with any luck, I can evoke such a response with my rendition.” Ellen A. Hunter - THE ILIAD OF HOMER ‐ BOOK I We have a remarkable lineup of poets, enjoy: ReviewsOver the Edge by Suzanne Owens -
Review by Barbara Thomas
As we said when we started this is a joint
production of Wilderness House Literary Retreat and the “bagel bards”.
The “Bagel Bards” have just published their third
anthology. You may purchase them here:
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