Water~Stone Review

Author Testimonials Terry Tempest Williams “Water-Stone Review is a beautiful, soulful journal where the unexpected voice is found and savored." Eavan Boland “Water~Stone Review has the freshness and verve of the very best literary reviews. You get the feeling, turning the pages, that its harvesting of good writing is intelligently planned and rigorously put together. In a very short space of time this has become a fine and necessary review.” Carol Bly “Terrific, handsome and wonderfully content-filled magazine.” Julie Schumacher “Water-Stone Review is one of the most aesthetically pleasing literary reviews on the market. The cover and design are strikingly beautiful; the reader is won over even before turning to the table of contents, with its many pleasures – both local and national. This is one of the few quarterlies that manages to be luscious both outside and in.” Stuart Dybek “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.” Fiona McCrae “A pithy, tasteful magazine, with generous samplings from new writers as well as from welcome old familiars.”		Naomi Shihab Nye “Water~Stone Review is one of the most elegant, substantial literary journals anywhere on the American scene. Don't miss it. It will nourish and uplift you.” Kate DiCamillo “Water~Stone Review is an elegant and eclectic and deeply satisfying literary journal.” Connie Wanek “Water~Stone Review is beautifully designed and generously sized. There is work from a variety of people, some well-known and others just emerging into the writing world. The student involvement is useful for the students and gives the review an extra liveliness. It is very much a regional publication in spirit, and yet it includes work from everywhere.” Robert Vivian “Water~Stone Review is one of those rare journals that fires on all cylinders: careful editing, gorgeous layout and design, an aesthetic triumph on every level. It is one of the best journals to come along in a long, long time – and I'm confident it's already well on its way toward setting a new international standard in the realm of literary journals.” Reg Saner “Body and soul, Water-Stone Review is a hands-on beauty to handle, with its unusually handsome format alluring top-notch contributors.”