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...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 11, 2023 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations with our Contributors—A. Muia This week, we talk with A. Muia about her piece, “Dolores-Born-Without-Ears,” place-based writing, and the inspiration behind her novel. Your piece, “Dolores-Born-Without-Ears,” is set...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 27, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Joseph Holt This week, we spoke with Jospeh Holt on finding inspiration in small moments, place and setting in writing, and his upcoming works. Your flash nonfiction piece, “People in Cars Outside the Coin...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 13, 2023 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations with our Contributors—Interview with Jose Hernandez Diaz Your poem, “Ni de aquí, ni de allá: ni de la pinche luna,” speaks to cultural rejection, this difficult place of trying to find yourself while being caught between two...
by WaterStone Review | May 23, 2023 | blog: all
This Far North by Jason Tandon, Reviewed by Robyn Earhart This Far North Jason Tandon Black Lawrence Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1-62557-048-2 83 pages In Jason Tandon’s fifth collection of poetry This Far North, Tandon’s stripped down, bare bones, minimalist writing style...
by WaterStone Review | May 15, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Tara Westmor The following interview was conducted between contributor Tara Westmor and assistant poetry editor Larissa Larson. Your poem “Mother, Ankle Deep” in Volume 25 focuses on the cultural and natural...
by WaterStone Review | May 4, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Rachel Finn-Lohmann Your short story “Squeaky” in Volume 25 is about a teacher who torments a sixth-grade student in his classroom. What was the inspiration behind this story? How did it come to be? The story is based...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 23, 2023 | blog: all
Heartworm Adam Scheffler Moon City Press 2023 ISBN: 978-0-913785-60-7 70 pages Adam Scheffler’s second poetry collection Heartworm, winner of the 2021 Moon City Poetry Prize, is a bewildering cacophony of subject matters—small or grand, turned over and studied with...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 18, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cole W. Williams I always like to start these interviews off by learning about the inspiration behind the writing. In “On Thelma & Louise”, your short essay published in Volume 25, you wrote about a woman who...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 20, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Eva Song Margolis The illustration credit belongs to Dain Suh, courtesy of NPR. Dain Suh is a New York-based art director, illustrator, and digital content creator. You can learn more about Suh’s work via their...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 28, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Annie Trinh Your short story “Observation Notes on the Effects of the Vespa Mandarinia” from Volume 25 is about an entomologist battling an infestation of killer hornets in Seattle. What was the inspiration behind this...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 13, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Patrick Cabello Hansel The featured image was taken from a broadside created by Nick Wroblewski displaying Roy McBride’s poem “Lilac Week” for the Powderhorn Writer’s Festival. Your poem “Lilac Time Minneapolis, May...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 17, 2023 | blog: all
Smog Mother John Wall Barger Palimpsest Press 2022 ISBN: 9781990293214 91 pages Smog Mother, John Wall Barger’s sixth collection of poetry, begins with an epigraph from the 1959 French New Wave film Hiroshima Mon Amour, written by Marguerite Duras: SHE: The...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 3, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—J.G. Jesman In “Mr Chilombo’s Wife”, your short story published in Volume 25, the narrator describes the goings-on of her day as we begin to see that something is off in the relationship between her and her husband....
by WaterStone Review | Dec 13, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernestine Saankaláxt Hayes Congratulations on your Pushcart nomination for your fictional story “Drowning in shallow water is our only escape” in Volume 25! What was the process like for you while writing this unique...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 29, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ty Chapman Congratulations on being nominated for the Pushcart Award for your poem “Pantheon” in volume 25. This poem speaks not only to the multifaceted layers of oppression Black people face, but also to their...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 27, 2022 | blog: all
What do you hope to achieve while working as the Fiction Contributing Editor with Water~Stone Review (WSR) for v. 26? My hope is to discover new voices and communities and to encounter writing that surprises me. I remember what it was like to open my first acceptance...
