INTRODUCING

Shape Still Warm
Volume 28 (2025-2026)

Interview with Chris Santiago

Open. Shut. Open. image folio

Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction by Kimberly Blaeser, Zeke Caligiuri, Steve Castro, Ty Chapman, Sean Hill, Suqi Karen Sims, Virgil Suarez, Felicia Zamora, and more

Essay Reviews by Robyn Earhart and Halee Kirkwood

Cover photograph
No Title, by Sergiy Barchuk

INTRODUCING:

Shape Still Warm
Volume 28 (2025-2026)

 

Interview with Chris Santiago

Open. Shut. Open. image folio

Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction by Kimberly Blaeser, Zeke Caligiuri, Steve Castro, Ty Chapman, Sean Hill, Suqi Karen Sims, Virgil Suarez, Felicia Zamora, and more

Essay Reviews by Robyn Earhart and Halee Kirkwood

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Cover photograph
No Title, by Sergiy Barchuk

Volume 25 pushcart nominees

Water~Stone Review is proud to feature the work of our six Pushcart nominees from our lastest issue, Vol. 27 “Love by Abandonment.” Congratulations to MICHAEL CHANG, Sasha Lavrenchuk, Margaret Whitford, Victoria Blanco, Stephanie Early Green, and Marc Nieson.

"Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark"

(poetry)
by MICHAEL CHANG

"Babylon"

(poetry)
by Sasha Lavrenchuk

"In Black and White"

(CNF)
by Margaret Whitford

"Corn-yellow Light"

(CNF)
by Victoria Blanco

"Nojento"

(fiction)
by Stephanie Early Green

"American Standards"

(fiction)
by Marc Nieson

Finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award

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