The editors ofDeep Wild: Writing from the Backcountryinvite students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies to submit work in any genre to our no-fee 2025 Student Contest. Submissions will be accepted from November 1 through March 1. Winners will receive cash awards and publication...
On the cover, a naked woman swam the forward crawl and beneath her, blossoming from the depths, a shark rose, enormous, piranha-toothed, mouth like a bottle opener. As I read I often returned to the cover to reorient myself in the thrill. I saw the car come around the point, and w...
Where the dunes meet the beach, critically endangeredHooded ploversnest on the open sand. With an estimated 750 individuals remaining in Victoria, up from 400 between 1990 and 2000, and just 1664 in Australia and New Zealand (figures from 2022. See theGreat Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority...
"A Trip across the Plains in an Ox Wagon, 1857." In Ho for California! Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library, edited by Sandra Myres. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1980. Carter, Robert W. "'Sometimes When I Hear the Winds Sigh': Mortality on the Overland Trail....
While I had read The Body in the Different Seasons collection I borrowed from the Brockville Public Library (the basis for “Stand By Me”) I hadn’t yet spent my own money on a King book. In 1987 there were plentiful options: that day alone I scoped everything from Carrie, ‘Salem...
bordered our driveway. A river emerged from the south end of my lake, and I write about the memories of fishing with my father. To the west of the lake, the high hills rise above, dominating the western sky from every view in the county. When I see those hills, I know I am home...
In 1970, she also received the first-ever Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Esther McCoy started her career as a draughtswoman at an architecture office, yet, because of her gender, she was discouraged from training as a professional architect despite her ambitions to study the field. Through her ...
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The year is 1941, and Karen has just finished her Blitz wall. When she told her Dad about it, he thought at first that it was some kind of protective measure in the garden to keep the family safe from the onslaught of bombs raining down from the sky. “No Dad”, Karen corrected him...
but I find myself just doing it for the hell of it (perhaps to fight off the insanity that comes from sitting around doing nothing). For the first time in my life, I feel like actually getting a stable, regular job; something to give me some routine and a bit of needed structure. ...