Happy winter issue of Whale Road Review! “Is it winter / yet?” Yvanna Vien Tica’s poem begins, and inside this issue, it is. Reading these creative pieces—which feature space, trains, fossils, and so much more—feels a lot like unwrapping gifts.
Issue 25 features poetry and short prose by Abra Bertman, Annette C. Boehm, Marisa P. Clark, Joanne Clarkson, Hollie Dugas, Diane D. Gillette, Rick Hollon, Ra’Niqua Lee, Tingyu Liu, Jory Mickelson, Cameron Morse, J. Alan Nelson, Carolyn Oliver, Simon Perchik, Lisa Raatikainen, Gretchen Rockwell, Angeline Schellenberg, Matthew Schultz, Martha Silano, Meg Stout, Claire Sunberg, and Yvanna Vien Tica.
In our pedagogy papers, Melody Heide teaches students to love their darlings while Bupinder Singh teaches descriptive writing with mindfulness.
The reviews in this issue by Jessica Gigot, Meghan Sterling, and K. Andrew Turner take us inside a flash fiction collection by John Brantingham and new poetry collections by Holly J. Hughes and Robin Reagler.
To close the issue, we have two insightful interviews with writers named Sarah: Riley Breitbarth interviewed Sarah Bigham about her experimental memoir, Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3 a.m., and Angie Dribben interviewed Sarah J. Sloat about her collection of Stephen King erasure poetry, Hotel Almighty.
Please spread some holiday cheer and tip the authors who have “Tip the Author” links under their bios! If you’re also a writer, please visit our guidelines and send us your work during our December submission window. Thanks for reading!
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief