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Our Editors' Pushcart nominations are in!
Congratulations to 2011 CNF contributors Sarah Gilbert and Lidia Yuknavitch, fiction contributors Mark Rapacz and L. Annette Binder, and poetry contributors, Reeves Keyworth and Alberto Rios.


Announcing the new issue of Water~Stone Review.

Volume 14, How Myths Begin.

From the Executive Editor:
Each year, when I write this opening essay, I end up writing variations on the same theme: the human condition in all its terror and beauty.  Simply put, the human condition is what it is, and writers grapple with it over and over—sometimes making sense of it, sometimes not—and the work we publish captures and depicts our ongoing, mythic human journey.   If that sounds like a cop-out, it’s not meant to be.  Because each issue is different; each is beautiful and haunting and transformative in its own way.  But the raw material we’re all working with as writers, that our authors have shaped into these winning poems and stories and works of creative nonfiction, is made of the unchanging stuff that joins us one to another—sentient and non-sentient, human and nonhuman beings. 

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 “Water-Stone Review is a beautiful, soulful journal where the unexpected voice is found and savored."    
     --Terry Tempest Williams

 “The impressive publication values of the beautiful new magazine, Water~Stone Review, are an accurate measure of the quality of work within its pages. It’s a welcome reinforcement along the barricades of American literary culture.”         
     --Stuart Dybek