WHLReview

145 Foster Street
Littleton MA 01460

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

To contact an editor simply click on a name below. To submit work to us please see "Submissions" below:

Editor & Publisher

Steve Glines 

Editor-at-Large

John Hanson Mitchell

Poetry Editor

Teisha Twomey

Poetry Reader
Carol Smallwood
Kate Hanson Foster

Fiction Editor

Tim Gager

Nonfiction Editor

Steve Glines

Book Reviews Editor

Doug Holder

Arts Editor/Curator

 Steve Glines

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:

We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally.

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..

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 53nd issue (Volume 14, 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 keep publishing their anthologies).

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.

Wilderness House Press has a Twitter feed and you can find us on Facebook or read about us on Wikipedia.

It costs quite a bit of money to keep publishing WHLR - Please help us out if you can as every little bit helps.

Our ISSN number is 2156-0153.

Let us know what you think in our Letters to the Editor.

Table of Contents

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Cookies everyone?

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 1500 unique visitors. The cookies tell us who’s unique. If that's a problem We're sorry. Enough of that.

The winter has been kind to us here in the Wilderness. Our writer friends have been extraordinarily prolific.

• Tom Sheehan, our 91 year old contributor, has been posting a very good poem a day on Facebook. He has been nominated for 16 Pushcart Awards. We nominated him twice. He is one of the best storytellers/poets we know. We asked him if he was collecting his poems for another book (he’s published something like 39 books). His response was to send us the manuscript for “Small Victories for the Soul VII.” We’ve posted an ad for the book top, left.
• Kudos also goes to Julia Carlson, our first fiction editor, for her new book of poetry titled “Little Creatures.” We’re thrilled to have her back in the Wilderness family. Again, we’ve posted an ad for the book to the top and left.
• Finally, it’s hard to toot ones own horn without appearing narcissistic. This writer (Steve Glines) spent three years writing this story, five years looking for an agent, and another two years rewriting based largely on what agents said was wrong with the manuscript, and there was a lot. One agent said it was too Canadian and the characters were too quirky. Another agent said that he couldn’t sell it because there was no sex in the book. The main character is dying and approaching 80 years old. Yet another said the novel was a literary novel and they only represented mainstream fiction. Still another said they only repd’ literary novels and that this was more of an historical novel. You get the picture. The title is Poplar Hill and we hope you enjoy it. If you want to learn more click here.

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Art

• We reveived some interesting art from Edward Michael Supranowicz.
  

Fiction

Our fiction editor loves Anton Chekhov and despairs the notion that there are no latter day Chekhov's submitting works. This is not to say that the work we receive isn’t excellent … it’s just not Chekhov. To that end WHLReview announces a new prize for fiction to be called “the Chekhov Prize.” A Google search reveals several other Chekhov prizes with cash. Alas we’re not offering cash. We will look for a bearded bobble-head doll.

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

Poetry

Our poetry editor, not wanting to be outdone by our fiction editor is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry. Anyone published in Volume 3 (and beyond) is eligible. We don't have any idea what the prize will consist of - a T-shirt for sure. Perhaps we can find a Plaster of Paris bust of Julius Caesar, put a rose in its mouth and decorate it to look like Gertrude Stein.

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

Reviews

WHLReview is brought to you by:

An exciting travelog:

Seven Days in Fiji
by Steve Glines

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
by Sonia Meyer

by Dennis Daly
From Ibbetson Street Press


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


Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

Ibbetson Street Press

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 nineth anthology. You may purchase them here: