by WaterStone Review | Feb 7, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Pamela R. Fletcher Bush Your memoir essay “The Complexion of Love” in Vol. 24 recounts a pivotal moment when the young narrator Renny is confronted with racism by the white kids she’s attracted to, and then feels...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 24, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Darryl Holmes Your poem in Vol. 24 “The Persistence of Memory” uses Salvador Dalí’s 1931 surrealistic painting (of the same name). Can you speak to the inspiration behind this poem? How did it come to be? I went...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 10, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jeannine Hall Gailey Your poem “On the Autumn Equinox, 2019” from Volume 24 explores some big ideas on resistance: resistance from rape culture and patriarchy, resistance from predators or the changing of seasons, the...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 20, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Arleta Little Back in November 2020, we asked contributing creative nonfiction editor Carolyn Holbrook what types of submissions she wanted to receive for our forthcoming issue. “I can’t imagine Vol. 24 not having a...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 6, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—David Aloi “People Here”, your story in Vol. 24, immediately transported me to my middle-school days crowded around a friend’s computer, the sweet sound of the dial-up connection whirring, hoping we could find some...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 29, 2021 | blog: all
Inside and Outside the Box by Stan Sanvel Rubin For the past two years, our poetry reviews editor Stan Sanvel Rubin has wondered what impact pandemic-related isolation and online reading events will have on the future of writing. Like many of us, Stan found comfort...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 22, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Gen Del Raye In “Home Burial”, your short story published in Volume 24, the speaker’s grandmother attends the funeral of a man she worked for whose job was to recommend men in the village to draft in the war. How did...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 8, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Heather A. Warren We selected a phrase from a line in your poem “What Wounds Become”, which acts in conversation with the poet torrin a. greathouse, as the subtitle of Volume 24 because it perfectly embodies thematic...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 27, 2021 | blog: all
What are the types of essays you would like to see in Volume 25? I want to see essays from a diverse array of perspectives on a wide range of issues in Volume 25. I want to cull from talent from different communities and put together exciting contributions that will...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 20, 2021 | blog: all
What are the types of poems you would like to see in Volume 25? Poems that feel like microcosms of something larger. What is an ideal submission for you? What would set a submission apart from the others for you? When you make chocolate chip cookies, the most...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 7, 2021 | blog: all
Mona Susan Power is the contributing fiction editor for Volume 25. Below is an interview conducted with her via email exchange. What are the types of stories you would like to see in Volume 25? Authenticity is so important to me. When I used to teach writing I would...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 23, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—William Reichard Your poem “Still Life, with Pomegranates” in Volume 23 is rife with such visceral colors and imagery. This poem contemplates so many things: fruit, hibernation, solace, beauty, and art. Can you tell us...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 9, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Noah Davis Your poem “Passenger Pigeon, Audubon Plate LXII” from Volume 23 includes repetition of the words ‘trust’ and ‘lesser’, which alters the meaning and tone of this poem in different reads of it. Can you tell us...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 26, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ruth Mukwana Your short story “Floating” in Volume 23 is about Timothy Okello, a young Ugandan refugee who learns that his father is the leader of an anti-government group that kills civilians. Can you tell us a bit...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 12, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Libby Flores In “Safe”, your first of two flash fiction stories in Volume 23, there’s a palpable amount of tension simmering as the unnamed narrator unveils a fractured relationship with their partner. Can you tell us...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 6, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Marjorie Stelmach Your poem “The Late Accommodations” from Volume 23 is an account of driving down a highway at dusk and witnessing a mare “moving through gauzy grasses.” Did you have some ‘aha’ moment to write a poem...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 28, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jackie Trytten Your creative nonfiction piece “Taking Each Other In” from Volume 23 is a flash essay that our editorial board members said “really earned its place” in this issue due to its lyricism and economy of...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 14, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Krischan Stotz Your creative nonfiction piece “The Jellyfish Tide” from Volume 23 is a philosophical lyric essay that explores simultaneities and fate. Our board members who read and voted on including it in Volume 23...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 1, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Bagan Your poem “Primate” in Volume 23 explores traits and knowledge, things we learn from each other, from our ancestors. Can you tell us about the inspiration behind this poem? Yes, exactly. “Primate” sits atop a...
by WaterStone Review | May 17, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—John Wall Barger Your poem “We Came to Dinner” in Volume 23 fuses modern and contemporary poetic styles. Can you talk through the inspiration behind this poem? This poem started, as many of mine do, very literally, in...
