INTRODUCING
Shape Still Warm
Volume 28 (2025-2026)
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WSR News & Events:
NEW! Water~Stone Review presents
WSR + Motion, a series of film shorts produced by Sophia Close in collaboration with select former contributors. Read more >
WSR Interview with Deb Olin Unferth
Join us for the Water~Stone Review interview exploring how Deb Olin Unferth continues to expand our understanding of narrative, form, and language—and how such innovation offers new ways to see and reflect on ourselves and the world around us, even as we mourn what is lost. As writers, we are often tasked with making art in dialogue with mourning, personal and communal, not to make sense of it, but to find purpose (and even joy) in the struggle to make meaning.
Unferth will be interviewed by Water~Stone Review fiction assistant editor Xander Bilyk and Hamline Creative Writing faculty member Cody Klippenstein.
The WSR Interview is part of a series of events featuring Deb Olin Unferth. For more information, visit the Vane Visiting Creative Artist Series.
Volume 28 Pushcart Nominees
Water~Stone Review is proud to feature the work of our six Pushcart nominees from our lastest issue, Vol. 28, Shape Still Warm. Congratulations to Zeke Caligiuri, Dana Winsmith, Steve Castro, Ty Chapman, Kimberly Blaeser, and Mary Jane LaVigne!
Finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award
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