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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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Editor & Publisher
Poetry Editor
Fiction Editor
Nonfiction Editor
Book Reviews Editor
Arts Editor
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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. 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 occasionally.
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 fifteenth issue (Volume4, no3) 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.
Table of Contents
OpineWe’ve “made it.” Someone, not us, has created a page for us in Wikipedia and listed us under American Literary Magazines. We are honored. We have changed, for the better we hope, our formatting of our stories. Please let us know what you think. Another year another anthology. It’s taken us a bit longer to get our “best of” paperback out than in previous years but then it’s been a year of chaos. We have lost friends and jobs and uncertainty has been the rule. We are finally thrilled to announce the publication of “The Best of Wilderness House Literary Review Volume 3.” A table of contents is available here. Order it here. You’ll note that our “best of” anthology is published by our new imprint, Wilderness House Press. 
Our own Fiction Editor, Timothy Gager said: "Susan Tepper is a solid writer who takes you places you've been to, imagined but yet have never placed yourself. Many authors can write and set up plots but Tepper does so in original ways it is as if you are driving on the grass next to a highway that everyone else is navigating. This is a book about the subtle relationships of people and their world---literary snapshots you flip through and read from beginning to end. Like many successful books of short fiction there is a tying thread through these stories and it is a joy to anticipate and look for it during the reading of Tepper's Deer." She's even received a short mention in Newsday on Long Island, New York, one of America's largest newspapers. Search the houseArtThis editor’s first encounter with the art world occurred when he accompanied his journalist mother to an art show that she had been asked to review. Being a professional journalist and not a professional art critic she grilled the artist whose works were proudly displayed on the meaning, merit and methods of the art until the poor soul fled the room in momentary madness. With a “humph” she shook her head and said, “I just don’t understand modern art.” To prove that modern art was a fraud she once entered a “sculpture” in a juried art show consisting of several hundred square pieces of multicolored plastic sponge, dipped in glue and randomly thrown onto a four foot by four foot piece of plywood. The piece was titled “Hallelujah in the Negev.” It won first place in its category. She declined assignments that involved art after that. This editor does not shrink from commenting on art: I had heard of Michael Costello so when Bridget Galway, our new arts editor, asked me to accompany her to Michael’s studio I was excited. Michael was warm and welcoming and before long Michael and Bridget chatting away about old times while I enjoyed photographing his studio: Of Muppets and Monsters. EssaysIn our last issue we tried an experiment in online publishing with this editors travelogue, "Seven Days in Fiji." Over 6,000 of you have read it so we’ll leave it up for this issue. Look for others in the future. Seven Days in Fiji. You can also purchase a paperback version here. We mentioned a bit earlier that this editor’s mother was a journalist who did not appreciate modern art although she loved the act of creativity. After moving to Nova Scotia she went on to earn her Master Chief’s license but before she did she proposed a column on country cooking to Gourmet magazine. What was she thinking? C.S. Glines - North Country Saga Most good writers have been rejected multiple times. So to continue this theme we have Aida Zilelian - The Cold War Finally, we will be publishing a novel by Sonia Meyer next summer and portions of it in our winter and spring editions. Sonia is so interesting we not only have published her story on the new pogroms against the Gypsies but also her biography. Sonia Meyer -
Pogroms Erupting Across The New Europe Fiction
For your reading pleasure we offer: Jennifer Barton -
Home Health Poetry
We have a remarkable lineup of poets, enjoy: ReviewsDEEP LANDSCAPE TURNING The Future That Brought Her Here:A Memoir Of A Call To Awaken. And the Monster Is -- ? Steerage Deer & Other Stories Seven Days in Fiji (Travelers Edition) 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 fourth
anthology. You may purchase them here:
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WHLReview is brought to you by: 
An exciting travelog:
Louisa Solano: The Grolier Poetry Bookshop
Outpost - A Collection of Poems
Manufacturing America, Poems from the Factory Floor
Eleven Ways to Change the World
Eden Waters Press HOME Anthology
The Man in the Booth in the Midtown Tunnel
They're Dropping Bombs Not Ham Sandwiches
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