Author’s Note: My stories fall into modes. Some are set in rural Virginia, others in countries overseas where I lived and worked. Some seek their setting in Western New York, where I grew up. Some, ... [Continue Story]
Talbot Spy and Others Reprint “I Donate My Aunt’s Clothes to the Unfinished Business Thrift Shop” by Irene Fick
Author’s Comment: This poem was triggered by the difficulty of witnessing the dying and ultimate death of my dear aunt, listening to her regrets and feeling a sense of guilt for gathering her ... [Continue Story]
Talbot Spy Reprints “El Salvador” by Marvin Jonathan Flores
Author’s Note: The poem draws largely from my first visit to El Salvador in 1986. While much has changed in the ensuing years, much remains the same, and today everywhere you look evidence abounds ... [Continue Story]
Talbot Spy and Others Reprint “A Rose by Any Other Name” by Alison Thompson
Author’s note: This story arose from a period in my life when I was thinking about relationships between women within families, especially intergenerational relationships⎯between mothers, daughter, ... [Continue Story]
Delmarva Review Selects Cover for 13th Annual Edition
Regional photographer Jay Fleming’s color image “Cedar Island Watch House,” has been selected for the cover of the thirteenth annual Delmarva Review, to be published on November 1.
Fleming is a professional fine art photographer who learned his craft from two powerful sources, his dogged self-persistence and the tutelage of his photographer father, Kevin Fleming, another highly skilled professional artist and former National Geographic photographer.
With a studio in Annapolis, Jay Fleming’s images have been featured in many magazines and exhibited in fine art galleries throughout the Chesapeake region. His first book of photography, Working the Water, was published in 2016. A second book, Island Life, is forthcoming.
The thirteenth edition of Delmarva Review will contain new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from over sixty authors in the United States and other countries. About half of the writers are from the Chesapeake and Delmarva region.
Delmarva Review is a nonprofit literary journal published in print and e-book editions. Both are available at Amazon.com and other leading online booksellers. The collection is supported by individual contributions, sales, and a grant from the Talbot County Arts Council with funds from the Maryland State Arts Council.
The next submission period for new literary work and cover art opens on November 1. Please see the website for more information at www.delmarvareview.org.
Delmarva Review Announces 12th Annual Edition
53 Authors Featured
New Submission Period Open November 1
Delmarva Review announced publication of its twelfth literary journal presenting original new poetry, short stories and creative nonfiction by authors from 17 states, the District of Columbia, and four other countries. Half are from the Delmarva-Chesapeake region.
“The new issue is our largest, with 324 pages of outstanding new prose and poetry,” said Wilson Wyatt, executive editor. The work of 53 writers was selected from thousands of submissions during the year.
“The authors capture the realities of life,” Wyatt said. “They find something of value through their writing, something worth nourishing in the hearts of other human beings. We strive to help make that possible through publication.”
This edition includes 72 poems, 10 short stories, and 9 nonfiction pieces. Editors also reviewed six recent books of special interest by regional writers.
The cover image, “Rough Water,” is by photographer Jay P. Fleming, of Annapolis, Maryland. It captures the feelings of power and passion expressed throughout this year’s writing.
Delmarva Review was created to offer writers a new venue of value to publish their best writing in print at a time when many commercial publications were reducing literary content or going out of business.
The journal favors the permanence of the printed word, but it also publishes electronic editions to meet the digital preferences of readers. Print and electronic editions are immediately available at Amazon and other major online booksellers. Copies are also sold at Mystery Loves Company bookstore in Oxford.
Since its first annual issue in 2008, the review has showcased the original work of over 340 writers. In all, authors are from 42 states and 12 foreign countries. Fifty percent are from the tri-state Delmarva Peninsula and Chesapeake Bay region. Sixty have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Others have received notable mentions in Best American Essays or achieved notice from other literary editors. For many, this was a first public recognition.
The submission period for the next issue is open now through March 31, 2020. All writers are welcome to submit their best work. Submissions are made electronically from the website: DelmarvaReview.org.
In addition to Wyatt, the journal’s all-volunteer staff for this edition includes Bill Gourgey, managing editor, fiction coeditors Harold O. Wilson and James O’Sullivan, poetry editor Anne Colwell, Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll, poetry reader, Cheryl Somers Aubin, nonfiction editor, Ellen Brown, associate editor, Gerald Sweeney, book section editor, and Jodie Littleton, copy editor.
The Delmarva Review exists to encourage writers who aspire to the best in literary prose and poetry. Published by the Delmarva Review Literary Fund Inc., a nonprofit organization, the journal receives funding support from individual tax-deductible contributions and a grant from the Talbot County Arts Council, with revenues from the Maryland State Arts Council.
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Delmarva Review Selects Cover for 12th Annual Edition
Regional photographer Jay Fleming’s color image “Rough Water,” has been selected for the cover of the twelfth annual Delmarva Review, to be published on November 1.
Fleming is a professional fine art photographer who learned his craft from two powerful sources, his dogged self-persistence and the tutelage of his photographer father, Kevin Fleming, another highly skilled professional artist and former National Geographic photographer.
With a studio in Annapolis, Jay Fleming’s images have been featured in many magazines and exhibited in fine art galleries throughout the Chesapeake region. His first book of photography, Working the Water, was published in 2016. A second book, Island Life, is scheduled for 2020.
The twelfth edition of Delmarva Review will contain new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from over fifty authors in the United States and several other countries. About half of the writers are from the Chesapeake and Delmarva region.
Delmarva Review is a nonprofit literary journal published in print and e-book editions. Both are available at Amazon.com and other leading online booksellers. The collection is supported by individual contributions, sales, and a grant from the Talbot County Arts Council with funds from the Maryland State Arts Council.
The next submission period for new literary work and cover art opens on November 1. Please see the website for more information at www.delmarvareview.org.
Interview with Holly Karapetkova on Delmarva Today: Writer’s Edition
DelmarvaPublic Radio's weekly program, Delmarva Today, is hosted by Delmarva Review's very own Fiction Editor, Hal Wilson. In Writer's Edition #73, Hal interviewed Holly Karapetkova, whose poetry has appeared in Delmarva Review. Her writings are broad-ranging and unveil the deep wounds left by our history of racism, slavery, and environmental degradation. In sad recognition of the 400 year anniversary last month of the introduction of slavery into the colonies, our conversation will focus primarily on Holly’s poems on slavery published in volume 11 of the Delmarva Review. It was in August 1619, that a pirate ship dropped anchor off Jamestown, Va. 20 to 30 slaves were offloaded and sold to the colonists. This was only 12 years after the founding of the colony and one year before the Puritans landed at Plymouth Rock. We forget that it was also 157 years before the declaration of independence. 400 years ago last month, at colonial Jamestown slavery was woven into the very fabric of our country. Holly’s poems capture that ingrained nature of racism we still experience today.
Continuing the theme of exile and separation, we also discuss a number of her poems on immigration.
Holly’s poetry, prose, and translations have appeared widely in print and online in places such as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, The Nashville Review, and Delmarva Review. Her books include Words We Might One Day Say, winner of the 2010 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Poetry Award, and Towline, winner of the 2016 Vern Rutsala Poetry Contest from Cloudbank Books. In addition to her poetry and translations, Holly has written more than 20 books for children. She teaches in the Department of Literature and Languages at Marymount University.
Click below to tune in. This is a fascinating and timely discussion.
In support of literary journals…a gift to all writers.
Delmarva Review's Executive Editor, Wilson Wyatt, Jr., shares his view on the important roles literary journals play in advancing great literature. Based on his many years of experience as both writer and editor, Wyatt offers words of encouragement for all writers who seek to have their voices heard.
Read his full story here.
The Public Is Invited: Delmarva Review Celebratory Reading!
Delmarva Review and the Talbot County Free Library are presenting a celebratory reading of short stories, essays, and poetry by 10 award-winning regional authors. The reading will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at the Talbot County Free Library, 100 W. Dover St., in Easton. This event is free and open to the public.
The readers include Sue Ellen Thompson, of Oxford, Anne Colwell, of Milton, DE, George Merrill, of St. Michaels, Meredith Davies Hadaway, of Chestertown, Wendy Ingersoll, of Newark, DE, Bill Peak, of Easton, Kate Blackwell, of Neavitt and Washington, DC, Emily Rich, of Secretary, David Salner, of Millsboro, DE, and Kelley Katharine Malone, of Easton.
The reading celebrates a literary milestone, as the Delmarva Review has now published the original work of over 300 authors over an 11-year history. The writers span 40 states and ten foreign countries, while 52 percent are from the Delmarva Peninsula and Chesapeake region. Over 60 have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and other literary awards.
As a literary journal, Delmarva Review exists to encourage writers to pursue outstanding writing by offering an established literary publishing opportunity. It is published in print and digital editions available worldwide through Amazon.com and other major online booksellers. With local roots, its influence stretches far beyond regional borders.
The nonprofit review is supported by individual contributions and a grant from the Talbot County Arts Council with funds from the Maryland State Arts Council. Visit its website at DelmarvaReview.org. Order copies at Amazon.com.
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