Editor: Jessica Lee Richardson
Founding Editor: Dan Albergotti
Fiction Editor: Jason Ockert
Nonfiction Editor: Joe Oestreich
Poetry Editor: Hastings Hensel
Readers: Caroline Cahill and Jeremy Griffin
Managing Editor: Alysha Cieniewicz
Fiction Assistant Editor: Amy Jarvis
Nonfiction Assistant Editor: Amanda Taylor
Poetry Assistant Editor: Nicholas Powell
Copy Editors: Lauren Higgins and Chelsea Thomas
Design Editors: Esther Crompton, Kimberly Holcombe, and Ronda Taylor
Digital Content Coordinator: Alli Crandell
Editor’s Note
A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 14
Welcome to the fourteenth issue of Waccamaw, an online literary journal published at Coastal Carolina University. This issue was launched April 23, 2015.
Thanks to Caroline Cahill and Katie Prince, our poetry readers, who worked with Hastings Hensel to select the poetry for this issue.
Our four graduate interns served as editorial assistants for this issue and offered invaluable help in selecting and editing work: Jenifer Butler, Todd Fulmer, Jordan Serviss, and Allison Tanner. We are very grateful to them for their efforts.
In this issue, you will find exciting new work by some of our best contemporary writers: fiction by Barbara Abramson, Jacqueline Berkman, Michael Fischer, Rudy Ravindra, and Lindsay Tigue; creative nonfiction by Juliana Gray and Hannah Stephenson; and poetry by Adam Houle, Jessica Fordham Kidd, Wesley Rothman, Karen Scolfield, Adam Vines, and many more.
Our next reading period for unsolicited submissions will open in the fall. ipadr.xyz Please note that we only accept submissions online via Submittable.
Thank you for reading. We hope you enjoy the issue.
Masthead
Editor: Cara Blue Adams
Founding Editor: Dan Albergotti
Fiction Editor: Jason Ockert
Nonfiction Editor: Joe Oestreich
Poetry Editor: Hastings Hensel
Poetry Readers: Caroline Cahill, Katie Prince
Editorial Interns: Jenifer Butler, Todd Fulmer, Jordan Serviss, Allison Tanner
Digital Content Coordinator: Alli Crandell
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Masthead
Editor: Cara Blue Adams
Founding Editor: Dan Albergotti
Fiction Editor: Jason Ockert
Nonfiction Editor: Joe Oestreich
Poetry Editor: Hastings Hensel
Poetry Readers: Joe Bueter, Caroline Cahill
Editorial Assistants: Schuler Benson, Jenifer Butler, Todd Fulmer, Lindsey Holt, Laurie Jackson, Amy J. E. MacKenzie, J. Thomas Minton, Samantha Riley, Krystin Santos, Jordan Serviss, Allison Tanner, Sarah Waldowski, Paul Warner, David Weber
Digital Content Coordinator: Alli Crandell
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A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 13
Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Waccamaw, an online literary journal published at Coastal Carolina University. This issue was launched December 8, 2014.
I would like to welcome to our masthead Hastings Hensel, who joins us as poetry editor. We are thrilled to have him aboard. Thanks to Joe Bueter and Caroline Cahill, our poetry readers, who worked with Hastings to select the poetry for this issue.
Our graduate editorial assistants offered invaluable help in selecting and editing work across all three genres: Schuler Benson, Jenifer Butler, Todd Fulmer, Lindsey Holt, Laurie Jackson, Amy J. E. MacKenzie, J. Thomas Minton, Samantha Riley, Krystin Santos, Jordan Serviss, Allison Tanner, Sarah Waldowski, Paul Warner, and David Weber. We are very grateful to them for their efforts.
In this issue, you will find exciting new work by some of our best contemporary writers: fiction by Sara Backer, Mika Seifert, Karin C. Davidson, and Mike Scalise; creative nonfiction by Lucille Lang Day, Karen J. Weyant, and Jacqueline Doyle; and poetry by Jake Ricafrente, Lisa Ampleman, Charlie Clark, Jenna Le, Dore Kiesselbach, Andrew Mulvania, and many more.
Our next reading period for unsolicited submissions will be from January 1 to January 31. Please note that we only accept submissions online via Submittable.
Thank you for reading. We hope you enjoy the issue.
A Welcome to Waccamaw Issue 12
Welcome to the twelfth issue of Waccamaw, an online literary journal published at Coastal Carolina University. This issue was launched October 31, 2013.
I want to thank Joe Bueter, Caroline Cahill, and Hastings Hensel for their assistance in selecting the poetry for this issue, as well as Jason Bordt for the work he did assisting fiction editor Jason Ockert. I’d also like to welcome to the Waccamaw masthead Cara Blue Adams, who joined the Coastal Carolina University Department of English in August. Thank you, Cara, for your help with our fiction and nonfiction submissions for this issue.
As the new year approaches, change will be coming to the journal. Look for a redesignedWaccamaw in 2014, and check back here for updates about future submission periods and issue launch dates.
Thank you for reading. Welcome to the river.