Introducing Contributing Editor of Fiction Max Delsohn
Welcome, Max! We’re excited to have you as the Contributing Editor of Fiction for Vol. 29 of Water~ Stone Review. Your debut collection of short stories, Crawl was published by Graywolf Press in October of last year. Since then it’s received a lot of praise and...
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Introducing Contributing Editor of Fiction Max Delsohn
Welcome, Max! We’re excited to have you as the Contributing Editor of Fiction for Vol. 29 of Water~ Stone Review. Your debut collection of short stories, Crawl was published by Graywolf Press in October of last year. Since then it’s received a lot of praise and...
Introducing Contributing Editor of Creative Nonfiction Jax Connelly
Welcome! We’re excited to have you as the Volume 29 Contributing Editor for Creative Nonfiction. Your essay “Not So Soft” appeared in Vol. 26 of Water~Stone Review back in 2023. Since then you have had a ton of publishing success including winning the Red Hen Press...
Introducing Contributing Editor of Poetry Mai Der Vang
Welcome! We’re excited to have you as the Volume 29 Contributing Editor for Poetry. Your poem, “I the Body of Laos and All My UXOs” appeared in Vol. 19 of Water~Stone Review back in 2016. Since then you have had a ton of publishing success publishing three...
Welcome Assistant Fiction Editor Xander Bilyk
Welcome Xander Bilyk as Assistant Editor of Fiction for Volume 29 I know you write poetry, fiction, stand up comedy, and songs. What is it that draws you to each of these genres? Do you have a favorite right now? I talk to the Muses. Sometimes things come as an...
Welcome Assistant Poetry Editor Beth Forsyth
Welcome Beth Forsyth as the Volume 29 Assistant Editor of Poetry. I know you write poetry almost exclusively. What is it you love about poetry Concision! I’m pretty short-winded and I really admire that in poetry every letter, space, and punctuation mark has the...
Welcome Managing Editor Elizabeth Carls
Welcome Elizabeth Carls, the new Managing Editor of Water~Stone! Elizabeth has published creative nonfiction and poetry in Split Rock Review, River Teeth, and Under the Sun, among other journals. She has served on the editorial board of CRAFT Literary and Runestone...
Water~Stone Farewell from Managing Editor Jenn Sisko
It is with many emotions that I reach the end of my time at Water~Stone Review. While I look forward to the future, I will always hold a fond spot in my literary heart for the journal that taught me so much. My journey started with one question: What can I learn, and...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—mychael zulauf
Your poem, “yazoo-mississippi delta” appears in Volume 28. When did you start writing this poem? What inspired it? I wrote the poem in a single day on a recent-ish trip I took with my partner to New Orleans. It was my first substantive trip back in over a decade (I...