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 and community from attending virtual events, but...
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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 the idea for this story originate? I had already written several...
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 and imagistic elements in this issue from a multitude of...
A Conversation With Kao Kalia Yang—WSR Contributing Creative Nonfiction Editor
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...
A Conversation With Ed Bok Lee—WSR Contributing Poetry Editor
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...
A Conversation With Mona Susan Power—WSR Contributing Fiction Editor
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...
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 a little bit about the inspiration behind it? I’m a visual...
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 the inspiration behind this poem? What drew you to consider...
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 about the inspiration behind this story? I wouldn’t want the only...
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 a little bit about the inspiration behind the story? I think at...
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 when you saw this? How did King Lear come into this poem? Are you a...