2009 Summer Writers' Workshop

Join us in Northfield, Minnesota, for a week-long, residential retreat for writers. From the Graduate School of Liberal Studies at Hamline University.

2009 Lineup:

Susanne Antonetta, Creative Nonfiction

Matthew Dickman & Michael Dickman, Poetry

June Spence, Fiction

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Volume 11, Between the Rivers, has arrived!
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Pushcart Prizes

Kurt Brown's "No Other Paradise," appearing in
Water~Stone Review (Volume 10, Fall 2007) was
selected for a Pushcart Prize. The anthology, Pushcart
Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, will be
published in November 2008.

The short story, "Broken" by Joshua Wilkes which also
appeared in Water~Stone Review, Vol. 10 (2007)
received special mention by the editors of the
2009 Pushcart Prize- Best of Small Presses.

Barrie Jean Borich also received special mention
by the editors of the 2009 Pushcart Prize for her
creative nonfiction work, "Cities of Possibilities"
published in the Water~Stone Review, Vol. 10 (2007).
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Water~Stone Review is delighted to announce that past contributor Sue William Silverman's memoir, Love Sick,
has been made into a Lifetime movie! Love Sick: One
Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction will premiere Saturday, April 19 (check local listings) on Lifetime (cable) and stars Sally Pressman (of the series "Army Wives") and
David James Elliott (of the series JAG). "Galveston Island Breakdown: Some Directions" was a section of what became Love Sick and was published in the 2006 Water~Stone Review (Vol. 9). It won the Brenda Ueland Prose contest that year and has since received a special mention by the editors of the 2008 Pushcart Prize.

Check local listings or www.mylifetime.com for movie times. Also feel free to visit Sue William Silverman's website for more information about this memoir (and her others) and a behind the scenes look at the Lifetime movie. Click on "Lifetime TV" on her Home page.

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AWARDS & HONORS for Water~Stone Review:

Nick Healy's short story "Joyless Men" was a finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Prize and will be published in Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2008 (Del Sol Press).

Eleanor Lerman's poem "Models of Passion and Pain" was selected for a 2008 Pushcart Prize.

Sue William Silverman's creative nonfiction "Galveston Island Breakdown: Some Directions" received a special mention by the editors of the 2008 Pushcart Prize.

Allen Learst's creative nonfiction "The Blood of Children" received a special mention in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology as well as in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology.