Issue 18 Contributors

On the whole, we were extremely impressed with the work sent our way for the fall issue. The fact that so many writers sent in such good material made an already meticulous and difficult process even more challenging. It was also a thrill to read so many quality pieces and to be able to consider them for our readership.

Our 18th issue is going to be a great one. As if all new fiction (six new stories, in fact, including a stunning and masterful tale by Thomas E. Kennedy), poetry (11 in all), and a few memoirs weren't enough, we've got some amazing features coming your way.

We'll be showcasing two interviews: Alice Maud Gulbrandsen (artist and writer), and an interview with the iconic writer Norman Mailer, with Michael Lee. Both of them are great, but if you read only one, don't miss the Mailer interview.

On top of the interviews, we have reviews of The Law of Falling Bodies, novelist Duff Brenna's latest work, Local Music, by Walter Cummins, and How Like an Angel, by Jack Driscoll.

If you think this sounds like a watershed issue, you're right. It's our largest yet, and it comes on the heels of our two best and most popular issues to date.

Here are the contributors, in no particular order:

Ann Borger, "Sailing into Sunset"
Ashok Niyogi, "Parable"
Barbara Ann Wade, "Queen of Celery"
Cameron Keller Scott, "Lamentations for the Traveler," and "Lamentations for the Complete Angler"
John N. Miller, "The Dispossessed"
JS Absher, "Banking On"
Katey Schultz, "Self Portrait"
Michael Steffen, "Living Lyric," and "Premature Gods"
Robin Keehn, "An Ode to my Students Writing Memoirs"
David Poe, "My Stunning Wife, Studs"
Paul Casey, "Wrong Wine"
Thomas E. Kennedy, "The Baboon Dream"
Eric D. Anderson, "Strawberry"
Gayla Chaney, "Killing Jorge Ortega Again"
Kevin P. Keating, "The Black Death of Gentile da Foligno"
James Brown, "Some Kind of Animal"
Lawrence Lawson, "So You Wanna Be A Peace Corps Volunteer?"
Steve Heller, "Pursuing Mediocrity"
James Brown, "Some Kind of Animal"