WHLReview

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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 

Poetry Editor

Ravi Yelamanchilli

Poetry Readers

Carol Smallwood
Teisha Twomey

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.

 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..

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 67th issue (Volume 17, no 3) 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.

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Our ISSN number is 2156-0153.

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Table of Contents

Opine

Staying chill in the in the long nights of Autum

Night returns in a hurry when the sun passes the equinox. The Canadian geese are flocking even though they will remain here all winter and the ivy that climbs the old maple tree across the street from my studio is dark red. The maples across the swamp are flaming at the tops but still green near the ground. In another week the world here in New England will be crimson, yellow and orange. In anther three weeks the winter panoply will settle in and the woods and forests will be naked and ready for the deep sleep of winter. It might flurry with a snow flake or two but it will be another two months, at least, before winter settles in and there is snow on the ground and the squirrels, badgers and chipmunks are sleeping in their dens. But for now it’s a manic rush to store food, to get fat and to line their dens with whatever they can find to stay warm. A reverse 911 call warns us of the approach of a black bear looking for full bird feeders. We fill the bird feeder with bricks of suet in the hopes of catching the black furred critter in the act. There used to be a plaque on a rock in a nearby park that read “On this site the last bear was shot in Littleton in 1823.” The local historical society thought it was politically incorrect so they took it down. We hope to shoot the bear with a camera.

In another universe, far far away, trouble brews. Bruised egos and megalomania are killing tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians. It’s painful to watch and so unnecessary. Then again WWI and WWII were equally unnecessary as well. Still we all have to draw a line when a bully picks on us but it's one thing when the bully had a hard fist and quite another when he has an atomic weapon. Still the line has to be drawn.

We would like to thank Paul Callaro and Joanne Corey for their donations. Every bit helps.

Finally I’d like to thank Ian Halim for standing in for Tim Gager as our fiction editor.

Wilderness House is looking for an arts editor.

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Art

•  Rebecca Pyle

Fiction

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

Poetry

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

Reviews

WHLReview is brought to you by:

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by Sonia Meyer

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


Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

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