ISSUE 12
"Family" by Jan Price
About the cover artist: Jan Price’s poetry and art continue to be published in Australia and the United States, through Universities in journals and online. She loves poetry competitions and open readings, and sells her paintings at art shows. She is sometimes asked to provide art for Literary covers. Jan studies Thought Distraction in regard to Depression. She lives in Victoria, Australia.
Editor's Note: What a fascinating theme! And what a tremendous reception -- 1097 pieces of writing, many more than we could ever publish, yet this number gave us such a wide variety to choose from, and that's a good thing. We chose for 1) beauty of language, 2) uniqueness of theme, and 3) a fit within the whole. We had a number of similar pieces, so of course we had to carefully pick and choose. But what a lovely project this has been. Great thanks to all who shared their writing with us; we're so very pleased with this issue, and had to close early each month due to reaching our Submittable limits days or even weeks early. We'll release a few more selections on the first of each month through December, and the plan is to reopen to submissions again in January. Will there be another theme? I'm really not sure yet, but please stay tuned, and sign up for our monthly update if you haven't already, form at the bottom of our homepage. Stay well, enjoy these lovely reads, feel safe. ~Chila Woychik
Accepted works
Ingrid Andersson's "Something Like Salvation" (prose poem)
Susan Austin's "Tributary" (prose poem)
j tate barlow's "Kitchen at Beech Avenue" (prose poem)
Michael Lewis-Beck's "Love Letters in the Sand" (fiction)
Michelle Cadiz's "the ocean is a woman" (prose poem)
Cole Depuy's "Stupidity is Biodegradable" (prose poem)
Randall Dills' "One Night Out West" (prose poem from a debut author, a first publication)
Isa Down's "Chicken Man / Undertow" (creative nonfiction)
Stephanie Dupal's "A Death in the Lord's Country" (fiction)
Kimberly Ence's "pau (finished)" (creative nonfiction)
Jamie Etheridge's "Pangaea Reunited" (creative nonfiction)
Michael Garrigan's "Upon Hearing that Snakehead Catfish Passed through the Conowingo Dam Fish Ladder" (prose poem)
Giles Goodland's "Watering" (prose poem)
Beth Gordon's "Hydrology (ii)" (prose poem)
Michael Hanner's "The Vézère Again" (prose poem)
Steven Harvey's "Folly Beach" (creative nonfiction)
Laurie Klein's "Scapegoat" (prose poem)
Dan MacIssac's "Signs of the Flood" (prose poem)
Eileen Malone's "Half Siren" (prose poem)
Fiona Murphy McCormack's "Waveforms" (fiction)
Jennifer Phinney's "February Baptism" (creative nonfiction)
Nina Pick's "Two Rivers" (prose poem) ISSUE 12 EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD
Tamra Plotnick's "Fishes for Her Supper" (fiction)
Sean Prentiss' "Beavers, Mating" (prose poem)
Suzanne Rancourt's "What Appears Abandoned, May Be Incubation" (prose poem)
Emma Robertson's "Slipstream" (fiction)
Sara Schuster's "Odysseus" (fiction)
Carla Schwartz's "Contemplating Humanity While Swimming" (prose poem)
Katy Scrogin's "City Fens" (prose poem)
Philip Styrt's "Horizons" (prose poem)
Danielle Verwers' "My Daughter is Six and Unaware of the Hazards of Hail" (prose poem)
Ingrid Andersson's "Something Like Salvation" (prose poem)
Susan Austin's "Tributary" (prose poem)
j tate barlow's "Kitchen at Beech Avenue" (prose poem)
Michael Lewis-Beck's "Love Letters in the Sand" (fiction)
Michelle Cadiz's "the ocean is a woman" (prose poem)
Cole Depuy's "Stupidity is Biodegradable" (prose poem)
Randall Dills' "One Night Out West" (prose poem from a debut author, a first publication)
Isa Down's "Chicken Man / Undertow" (creative nonfiction)
Stephanie Dupal's "A Death in the Lord's Country" (fiction)
Kimberly Ence's "pau (finished)" (creative nonfiction)
Jamie Etheridge's "Pangaea Reunited" (creative nonfiction)
Michael Garrigan's "Upon Hearing that Snakehead Catfish Passed through the Conowingo Dam Fish Ladder" (prose poem)
Giles Goodland's "Watering" (prose poem)
Beth Gordon's "Hydrology (ii)" (prose poem)
Michael Hanner's "The Vézère Again" (prose poem)
Steven Harvey's "Folly Beach" (creative nonfiction)
Laurie Klein's "Scapegoat" (prose poem)
Dan MacIssac's "Signs of the Flood" (prose poem)
Eileen Malone's "Half Siren" (prose poem)
Fiona Murphy McCormack's "Waveforms" (fiction)
Jennifer Phinney's "February Baptism" (creative nonfiction)
Nina Pick's "Two Rivers" (prose poem) ISSUE 12 EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD
Tamra Plotnick's "Fishes for Her Supper" (fiction)
Sean Prentiss' "Beavers, Mating" (prose poem)
Suzanne Rancourt's "What Appears Abandoned, May Be Incubation" (prose poem)
Emma Robertson's "Slipstream" (fiction)
Sara Schuster's "Odysseus" (fiction)
Carla Schwartz's "Contemplating Humanity While Swimming" (prose poem)
Katy Scrogin's "City Fens" (prose poem)
Philip Styrt's "Horizons" (prose poem)
Danielle Verwers' "My Daughter is Six and Unaware of the Hazards of Hail" (prose poem)
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1. We accept submissions via Submittable and use its tools to ensure that all identifying information is hidden from our readers throughout the selections process.
2. We ask entrants not to include their names or contact information within the document they upload to Submittable or its title; those who neglect this requirement will be disqualified.
3. While many journals disqualify close friends, relatives, students, and former students of the readers/judges from participation in any contest/award scenario, we're letting this one pass. We read "blind," and if the managing editor recognizes an author, she passes the work on to at least two of her other readers for their impartial input. We despise partiality in all its insidious forms and have no plans on letting it slither its way into our decisions at Eastern Iowa Review. We've turned down a number of "friends" and some many times.
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Eastern Iowa Review is not funded by any organization and therefore appreciates your support via the purchase of our special print issues, or even through a donation.
By submitting your work to the Eastern Iowa Review, you agree, should your work be accepted, to grant the Eastern Iowa Review exclusive print and electronic rights to your work until the time of print or online publication, as well as a non-exclusive right to maintain a copy of the published work in the literary journal archives indefinitely, online included; this includes the right to republish your work in anthology form without further remuneration, if any, to you. Any subsequent publication should include the credit “originally published in the Eastern Iowa Review.”
“Exclusive print and electronic rights” means that you agree not to re-publish your work elsewhere in print or online until the time of print publication, or in the case of online-only issues, until official online release. “Publish” means any public display of your work, and includes your personal website and posting to message boards. You are welcome to link to the page featuring your work instead, if sample excerpts or the complete work is featured online. Once the issue your work appears in has been published in print or online, you are free to republish your work in print or online. We have the right to display your work, in part or the whole, for promotional purposes online, in flyers, in anthology form, etc., in perpetuity. This includes on various online sales channels, in perpetuity.
Effective 2014, you also grant the Eastern Iowa Review the perpetual right to post an audio version (podcast) of your work on this or another site using our choice of reader.
You retain all other rights, including the right to re-publish the work in electronic or non-electronic form once the print or online issue has been released.
Letters to the editor(s) from any party may be published in whole or in part here or elsewhere online. Names and other identifying information will be withheld unless the author’s express permission is obtained. We welcome letters to the editor. Send to: [email protected].
Masthead
While no longer a member of CLMP, we strive to achieve a similar level of ethical standards: "...to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically."
Further, as is often the case with CLMP journals and presses, Eastern Iowa Review uses a blind judging system to arrive at writing acceptances and contest winners. This is how we do it:
1. We accept submissions via Submittable and use its tools to ensure that all identifying information is hidden from our readers throughout the selections process.
2. We ask entrants not to include their names or contact information within the document they upload to Submittable or its title; those who neglect this requirement will be disqualified.
3. While many journals disqualify close friends, relatives, students, and former students of the readers/judges from participation in any contest/award scenario, we're letting this one pass. We read "blind," and if the managing editor recognizes an author, she passes the work on to at least two of her other readers for their impartial input. We despise partiality in all its insidious forms and have no plans on letting it slither its way into our decisions at Eastern Iowa Review. We've turned down a number of "friends" and some many times.
Eastern Iowa Review is an extension of Port Yonder Press LLC.
Eastern Iowa Review is not funded by any organization and therefore appreciates your support via the purchase of our special print issues, or even through a donation.