by WaterStone Review | Jan 30, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ryan Habermeyer Your nonfiction piece, Only Matter, juxtaposes the death of a girl you knew with Lenin’s preservation. What was the impetus to blend these ideas together on the page? It was a weird writing experience....
by WaterStone Review | Jan 16, 2024 | blog: all
A Conversation with Joan Naviyuk Kane—WSR Contributing Poetry Editor Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 2, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Todd Davis Your poem, “Deposition: What Was Lost,” brings grief to the page with gentle, yet visceral, imagery, blending every other phrase with life and death. There’s a very cyclical feeling to the poem with these...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 19, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernie Reynolds In your flash fiction, “The Sergeant’s Daughter,” you’ve built a tightly-knit piece that revolves around a man’s relationship with his to-be wife over the course of 10 years, and her father....
by WaterStone Review | Dec 12, 2023 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Danielle Decatur Your wonderful fiction piece, “Lies on the Lips,” shows your main character Nell’s quiet transformation into confidence (and a little past that) with the help of a pair of marker-drawn lips. Where did...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 28, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Teresa Carmody Your beautifully braided nonfiction piece, “Reading the Deck with Zora Neale Hurston,” speaks about the trauma of growing up in a house where you were not accepted. You deftly layer personal details and...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 14, 2023 | featuredpost
Congrats on your nonfiction piece “When We Were Boys,” which is featured in The Best American Essays 2023! We were excited to debut it in Water~Stone, and we are thrilled it is getting the recognition it deserves. Can you talk about where this piece started when you...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 7, 2023 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Rebecca Johnson “Daybreak Comes and I Offer Light,” opens Volume 26 of Water~Stone. Your poem speaks to watching a parent grow older, and the emotional difficulties that accompany that, a longing to return to an...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 18, 2023 | blog: all
Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented voices...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 16, 2023 | blog: all
A Conversation with Juan Carlos Reyes—WSR Contributing Fiction Editor Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 10, 2023 | blog: all
Meet the Editors: New Assistant Managing Editor, Jenn Sisko This introduction is a little late, seeing as I took on the position of Assistant Managing Editor in the waning days of May. However, these last few months have given me the time to learn my way around...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 26, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jean McDonough Your nonfiction piece, “Vanishing Point,” expertly braids painting and Cubism techniques, specifically Picasso’s Guernica, with a turbulent childhood, layered within the reality and metaphor of driving....
by WaterStone Review | Sep 6, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Garrigan In your poem, “The River, A Ghost,” I love that you give us several fourth-wall breaks that jar us out of the river imagery. When did the inspiration for equating a “river in drought” to struggles with...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 30, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Huang “Shoreline” is a beautiful poem that opens V25 and speaks to generational longing. What was the impetus behind this poem? I love how you put it—”generational longing”—because that feels so...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 22, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Nadia Born I love the unique setup of “The Swimming Lesson,” as this story follows two characters’ internal monologues within the same moment of time. What inspired this story’s creation, particularly in this style? I...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 15, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Hwang Yuwon Your poem, “Dark and Clear Sleep” (translated by Jake Levine) takes the reader through a restless night. When I was reading it, I felt like I was right next to the speaker at the open window. What was...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 8, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Maureen Aitken Your flash fiction piece, “Mushrooms,” deals with a transformational event that resonates with the narrator dealing with loss later in life. What was the inspiration behind this piece?...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 1, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jake Levine The poems by Sin Yong-Mok are full of vibrant imagery. As you’re translating, how do you find the flow of a poem, especially in such a long one like “Lazy Corpse?” This is such a good poem. There are some...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 25, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Shannon Scott We get an unexpected supernatural twist in “The Snow Maiden.” Can you talk about how you utilize the supernatural within your writing? When I write a story where something supernatural happens it doesn’t...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 18, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—J. Jacqueline McLean This week, we spoke with J. Jacqueline McLean about her father, her inspiration and motivation for writing, and pushing towards your dreams. Your nonfiction piece, “Voting Day,” tells...
