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WHLReview145 Foster Street The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts. TheWHLReview is published online quarterly.
To contact an editor simply click on a name below. To submit work to us please see "Submissions" below: Editor & Publisher Arts Editor/Curator Poetry Editor Fiction Editor Nonfiction Editor Book Reviews Editor Submissions Deadlines are as follows 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. 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
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Welcome to the 80th issue (Volume 20, no 4) 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. Lets get this out of the way. We use cookies, everyone uses cookies. Our cookies just tell us how many people take a look at Wilderness House Literary Review. Over the life of an issue we get about 4000 unique visitors. The cookies tell us who’s unique. If that's a problem We're sorry. Enough of that. The stories, articles, poems and examples of art have
been presented as PDF files. 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. These files are large and we hope you will be patient when downloading
then, however we think the beauty of the words deserves a beautiful presentation. Our ISSN number is 2156-0153. Let us know what you think in our Letters to the Editor. Table of Contents OpineWinterTis’ the season of of our discontent. The air, howling and cold, masks our once hopeful progress with snow as deep as the crocus that lie buried, as deep as our once revered hopes and aspirations. His reign will surely end either by an aged dementia, how dull, or by the drama he surely believes he deserves and craves if he is to fill the history books as a hero. The worst plot finds him as an aberration, the kind that passes from memory quickly and receives only a passing reference, a shrinking paragraph in the history books a century hence. A story that would only find a lasting mention in the works of the next centuries Suetonius or Gibbon. Absent that he would be forgotten. A simple impeachment or stroke would end the story. Or another scenario requiring a Shakespearian imagination, is that of a major tragic figure. In this scenario our tragic hero wants only to do the right thing by his country and dreams of gaining recognition by being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. But, he is surrounded by evil Machiavellian sycophants who disrupt his plans and misguide him for their own power and greed. This scenario unfortunately requires a lot more drama. It doesn’t require a vivid imagination to envision the murder and mayhem of King Lear or, my personal preference, Macbeth. There is always tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. The crocuses will grow and the sparrows will return to Capistrano. Search the houseArtEssayThere 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 & InterviewsFor many more book reviews we'd like to point you to The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
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