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Wilderness House Literary Review Has a New Fiction Editor!
I’ve taken on the role of Fiction Editor for the Wilderness House Literary Review from Ian Halim, who is relocating to Pittsburgh to embark upon the next chapter of his career. God speed, Ian!
The next WHLR submission window closes on September 1, 2023. Here are the submissions date and guidelines as listed on the website:
Deadlines are as follows
March 1 – Spring
June 1 – Summer
September 1 – Autumn
December 1 – Winter
Please read this section before submitting work.
Please include some form of identification in the work itself.
All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word fileuploaded through the system below. Please do not send us pdf files. We can’t use them.
By submitting work to us you grant us a non-exclusive license to publish your work in any form we see fit. You may withdraw a submission up until the issue deadline (see above).
We don’t pay so you retain all copyrights. If we publish your work online we may include it in a printed edition.
Poetry may be submitted in any length. Please don’t submit 100 poems and ask us to pick 3.
Fiction may be submitted in three formats:
- very short stories less than 500 words in length
- short stories less than 1000 words in length
- Short stories that don’t fit the above should be less than 3000 words.
We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally.
Please, one fiction submission only per author, per issue. If you submit multiple stories for a single issue, we reserve the right not to review additional stories you submit after the first one.
Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes. Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words
Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it..
Art: Minimun of 6 pieces. Please incluce a bio and statement about your work. Any form of art may be submitted with the constraint that it must be something that can be published in 2 dimensions. It’s hard to publish sculpture but illustrations together with some intelligent prose count.
Published works are welcome with proper attribution.
Please submit all works electronically. Click here to submit to Wilderness House Literary Review.
“Starting Over” Accepted by Litmora Literary Magazine
Litmora Literary Magazine has accepted my micro story “Starting Over” for an upcoming publication.
“Based in Western New York, Litmora is the collaborative work of a bunch of students working to make their strange dream an even stranger reality.”
“Fire Hose” Accepted by “Ink In Thirds”
The online journal Ink In Thirds has accepted my minimalist piece of art entitled “Fire Hose” for publication in its September 23 Autumnal Equinox issue.
Ink In Thirds is “a magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again.”
“Lanternfly Love” Accepted by On-the-High Literary Journal
On-the-High Literary Journal has accepted my flash piece “Lanternfly Love” for publication in an upcoming issue.
“On-the-High Literary Journal is an online literary journal that publishes the works of emerging writers and the brilliant ideas that arise from being high.”
“What She’s Having” Accepted by “Written Tales Magazine”
The online journal Written Tales has accepted my micro story “What She’s Having” for publication.
Written Tales is “a magazine that publishes authors, offers advice to writers, and gives our readers amazing poems & stories to enjoy.”
“The One That Got Away” Accepted by “A Thin Slice of Anxiety”
A Thin Slice of Anxiety has accepted my “tall tale” fishing story entitled “The One That Got Away” for publication on its web site.
I will say that “Thin Slice” have a very interesting About page: “A Thin Slice of Anxiety is an independent publication which strives to nurture and promote the best up-and-coming writers of our generation. Writers who are brave enough to guide us into places of amalgamation where the unplumbed depths of the known are made and unmade. Encouraging us to explore the amaranthine abyss and ruthless shadowlands which make up the human condition.”
Why Didn’t I Think of That?
“Testament” and “More Memories for Sale” Accepted by “Constellations”
Nina Alonso Hathaway, editor in chief of Constellations: A Journal of Poetry & Fiction has accepted two of my pieces of micro fiction: “Testament” and “More Memories for Sale” for inclusion in the next issue.
Wicked Flashes of Fantasy: Anthology of Dark Fantasy Flash Fictions has included my micro story entitled “Dipteran Relief” available in