June 2024 From the Editors When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.—John Muir Carry on, that’s what we do. We walk through the door and into a life threatened by illness or accident, diminished by a lost love, broken by if we are […] The post From the Editors | Issue #36 appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review
Who made it? June 2024 | Issue #36 With “Fractions Are Numbers that Are Not Whole” by Nancy Huggett With “Inbetween” by Annaliese Jakimides With “In Its Otherness” by Richard Jackson The post Who made it? Issue #36 appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review
To come to the page with no preconceived notions about what we might find in a submission is like unwrapping a present from a secret Santa.| Waterwheel Review
April 2024 From the Editors It was as if, through that one sentence, she had wandered out of the yard of her usual languageand found herself in a different, mysterious, elegant part of town.—Barbara Feinberg Wander deep into Issue 35 and come upon critters and creatures, lessons and lies, magic and myth. Yet clear-eyed realness […] The post From the Editors | Issue #35 appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review
Who made it? April 2024 With “The Crayfish Ferris Wheel” by Brian C. Billings With “Xeroseres: A Lesson” by Faith Allington With “The Mood Begins to Shift” by Gerald Yelle The post Who made it? Issue #35 appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review
There is a semicolon between rough draft and final. Between the 100,000-word blurt and finely pruned manuscript.| Waterwheel Review
Who made it? March 2024 | Issue #34 With “How to Embellish an Upper Case V and Not Ruin It” by Victoria Melekian With “Beginning with a Line from Roethke” by Kathleen McGookey With “And the Point Is to Live Everything” by Claire Scott The post Who made it? Issue #34 appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review
Editor’s Notebook: “On Finding & Following Your North Star” March 2024 The writing god looking out for me is a lesser one, but that’s how I like it, the right god matched to size of ambition. I never wanted to sell a big book or be invited to a studio, so I don’t mind that […] The post Editor’s Notebook: “On Finding & Following Your North Star” appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review
The world spins, we stumble and puzzle and wonder, then right ourselves to focus on the task at hand. It is more than enough.| Waterwheel Review
February 2024 From the Editors Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. —Gretel Ehrlich Our humanness—personas, identities, irritations, opinions, desires—is reflected all around us, in showy sunflowers, razor-sharp icicles, elusive waterhens. Even as we hold nature aloft as mercifully unhuman, we look to the ocean for solace and the creek for an […] The post From the Editors | Issue #33 appeared first on Waterwheel Review.| Waterwheel Review