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 fertility emerge in your writing process? I didn’t start out...
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributor–Dan Malakoff
Your short story “Bear No Relation” in Volume 23 involves a lot of tension simmering in the narrative. I felt so anxious watching Jane spiral! Can you tell us why you chose a political meet-and-greet cocktail party as the setting for this story? Politics involve a...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Joanna Manning
Your flash essay “Sweet Just Yesterday” in Volume 23 is a burst of imagery and sensory details. Can you tell us a bit about your writing process and how you kept this essay so compressed? I write for a living, so I don’t always have the energy to explore the...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michael Kleber-Diggs
Your poem “EGGSHELLS” in Volume 23 has an interesting origin story. Can you tell us about that? I have been working from home and spending a lot of time with our two dogs (miniature GoldenDoodles Jasper and Ziggy) who enjoy going outside 5 or 6 times a day. When...
A Conversation With Carolyn Holbrook: WSR Contributing CNF Editor
Water~Stone Review has always been a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented...
A Conversation With Sean Hill: WSR Contributing Poetry Editor
Water~Stone Review has always been a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented...
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Christine Robbins
In The Field is a blog series devoted to highlighting the writing life and artistic process of our contributors. This week we continue with our series now featuring contributors from our most recent issue, Vo. 23 “Hunger For Tiny Things”. Vol. 23 is now available for...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Elizabeth Horneber
Tell us about your CNF piece “Tending to Fires” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? One of the strange things about growing up is that you start to see your parents as regular people. You start to notice their flaws and understand them in ways you perhaps couldn’t...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Stephen Eric Berry
Tell us about your poem “Monster” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? For several years I have been engaged in a series of reading-response rituals based on the sonnets of Shakespeare. The ritual involves writing out each sonnet by hand, recitation of the poem, a...