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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.
Editor & Publisher
Poetry Editor
Fiction Editor
Nonfiction Editor
Book Reviews Editor
Arts Editor
Poet in Residence
The Wilderness House Literary Review is the result of the cooperation of the and the Wilderness House Literary Retreat.
Submissions
All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word file sent as an attachment.
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.
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.
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Welcome to the ninth issue (Volume 3, 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 (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 deserve 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. Check the table of contents for your favorite author. Ten thousand years ago, just after the glaciers of North America receded, this little patch of New England was bare rock. Tortured gouges sandpapered clean by millennia of grit transported by slow moving ice became our ponds and the ridge that includes Bumblebee Park was the terminus, for a time, of debris deposited by the melting ice flows, a small terminal moraine. Ten thousand years is barely enough time for fertile earth to accumulate over this polished bedrock so, as a result, the soil here is sandy and thin. The poorness of the soil is the very attribute that causes our sugar maple trees to shut down early in a blaze of reds and oranges.
It’s very early spring; it’s to soon to plant, even in the cold frame. The conditions here are best described in a poetic fragment: And so the migrants hold back. Challenge: House of Wind, by Irene Koronas Not willing to let things be our poetry editor threw down the gauntlet a second time. This time the challenge was to work with a title: “the handwritten.” the handwritten, by Irene Koronas The next challenge which may turn into something more interesting is titled, “Why we are different from them.” No one is sure how this will turn out; stay tuned. ArtWe are thrilled to discover unexpected talent amongst our regular contributors. Tino Villanueva, noted poet, is also a fantastic artist. The Bagel Bards have asked him to contribute his art for the cover of their next anthology. We thought it would be fun to showcase his works here as well. The art of Tino Villanueva. EssaysAs usual we have an eclectic lot of essays. We don’t often look very seriously at essays with foot notes, it’s just not our style but given our editors essay about feminism we thought it might be thought provoking to publish an essay that came in over the transom. On Equal Opportunity and Gender Elimination - Pete Crowley We also offer a number of musings: The art of the interview is demonstrated by Doug Holder: The Interview: Errol Lincoln Uys - Doug Holder Fiction
We are pleased to announce the first recipient of our annual Chekhov prize. We haven’t Our prizewinner is Marc Simon of Waban Massachusetts who’s short story “I’m so Pretty” was arguably the best piece of fiction we published in Volume 2. Our new fiction editor has been very busy. In addition to publishing a chapbook (This is where yiou go when you are gone, poems by Timothy Gager) he has assembled a wonderful collection of short stories. Hunter Moon – Now it’s a murder mystery. Anne Brudevold continues the saga of intrigue and romance in the woods of northern Maine. On the shorter side: What If? - DeWitt Henry We have two short stories by Rusty Barnes: Poetry
Ashok Niyogi ReviewsIn no particular order:
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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It is spring in New England, undeniably spring. The crocuses, though late are finally in bloom. The sap has been rising in the Sugar Maple trees for over a month and the sump pumps in everyone’s basement have largely drained the first flushes of this springs thaw. In other parts of the country large rodents or songbirds serve as harbingers of spring. Here we have the rising sap in the maple trees and the rhythmic draw of the pumps bailing out our basements to announce the vernal season. The earth is so thin here that between lawn and bedrock is rarely more than a few feet so when the thaw comes the river draining our back yard and then some inevitably runs through our basement. 
been able to locate a Chekhov bobblehead doll (we’re still looking) but we have found a 
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