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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:
very short stories less than 500 words in length
short stories less than 1000 words in length
Short stories that don’t fit the above should be less than 3000 words.
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.
Welcome to the thirtieth issue (Volume 8, no 2) 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 another anthology).
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.
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.
"Go West, young man" was advice from American author Horace Greeley just after the American Civil War to young men seeking their fortune, seeking the American Dream. It was fashionable then to believe in America's Manifest Destiny which, at the time, dictated that American settlers should expand across the continent. America's Manifest Destiny would come to mean the mastery of any challenge and the conquering of any frontier. It was America's Manifest Destiny to send men to the moon and conquer the "new frontier" of space. ... more, but not what you expect
Our fiction editor loves Anton Chekhov and despairs the notion that there are no latter day Chekhovs submitting works for her consideration. This is not to say that the work he receives 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. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the Chekhov Prize logo available. Just click on Chekhov's head.
For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:
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. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the our rose prize logo available. Just click on Gerturde's head.
Regrettably we can no longer provide a free window onto our review blog, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. If you'd like to see dozens of new
book reviews posted every week please go HERE.
We would like to highlight two new books by our friends in the Bagel Bard crowd, Tim Gager and Krikor Der Hohannesian:
Antisocial Network
By Timothy Gager
Redneck Press
Revere, MA
By way of Mosherville, PA
39 Pages
$9.00 Review by Dennis Daly
Refuge in the Shadows
By Krikor Der Hohannesian
Cevena Barva Press
Somerville, Massachusetts
editor@cevenabarvapress.com
44 Pages
$7.00 Review by Dennis Daly
Beautybeast
by Adina Dabija
translated by Claudia Serea
Port Alworth, AK: North Shore Press, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9794365-5-0 Reviewed by David P. Miller
The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
Joao Cerqueira
River Grove books
ISBN 978-1-938416-16-3
2013 $14.95 Reviewed by Irene Koronas
Still Life in Ditch
by Fausto Paravidino
translated by Ilaria Papini
ISBN: 978-1-934909-36-2
published by Hanging Loose Press
231 Wyckoff Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
will be available for $18 this September Review by Michael Todd Steffen
MEMOIRS OF A HACK MECHANIC
By Rob Siegel
Bentley Publishers
ISBN 978-083761720-6
410 pages Review by Tom Miller
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 eighth
anthology. You may purchase them here:
