ISSUE 16 - COME, WANDER
Traveling in Style by Serge Lecomte
Editor's Note: We received hundreds of submissions a week during the Issue 16 reading period, and have chosen the ones shown below. What a wonderful selection of stories, poems, and creative nonfiction pieces! And the beautiful cover art above by Serge Lecomte. So gorgeous.
We are now closed for this issue.
Charles Byrne - "Maps" (fatras [poem])
Meredith MacLeod Davidson - "Mother's Day" (free verse poem)
Alice Duggan - "I Poured Coffee for Jesus This Morning" (poem)
Terri Glass - untitled haiku (poem)
R.F. Gonzalez - "Quarantine Clock" (contemporary fiction)
John Grey - "She Keeps Coming Back for More" & "Say Goodbye to the Tree" (free verse poem)
Fiona C. Hankenson - "My Humans Allow Me to Be Out" (creative nonfiction)
Mary Crockett Hill - "Dear Left Hand" (free verse poem)
Alicia Hilton - "Painterly Wisdom" (free verse poem)
Tom C. Hunley - "Love Me Gentlefirm the Way Firemen Love a Treed Cat" (love poem)
Maya Jacyszyn - "Two Does" (modern free verse poem)
Teresa H. Janssen - "The Truth of It" (contemporary fiction)
Kayla Jessop - "Mother of None" (creative nonfiction)
Jeanne Julian - "Between-worlds" (structured free verse poem)
Sandra Kolankiewicz - "Of a Long Winter" (poetry)
Michael Lauchlan - "Unfinished Ars" (contemporary free verse poem)
Hannah Lowe - "Lunaria" (creative nonfiction)
Ellene Glenn Moore - "The Dawson's Creek Essay" (lyric essay / memoir)
Zach Murphy - "I Traveled This Far Because I Love You" (fiction)
James B. Nicola - "A stranger looked at me" (villanelle, poem)
Nathanael O'Reilly - "Negotiations" (duplex poem)
Margie Patlak - "Woman of a Certain Age" (creative nonfiction)
Brontë Pearson - "Kentucky Hills" (free verse)
Thomas Piekarski - "Asleep Inside a Crystal Ball" (free verse poem)
Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison - "Red Owl" (long creative nonfiction)
Ellen White Rook - "Words with friends" (blank verse poem)
Laura Ruby - "Guide Book: Your Visit to the Sedlec Ossuary" (free verse)
Elaine Schear - "Backstory" (modified Golden Shovel poem)
Kathleen Serley - "Hey Neighbor" (a contrapuntal poem)
Jamie Tews - "Hunter's Moon" (blank verse poem)
Robin Turner - "At the Lindale, Texas Post Office I Ask for a Book of Stamps" (free verse poem)
Sascha Udagawa - "The Almond Orchard" (fiction, novel excerpt)
Dorothy Wall - "Haiku" (prose poem)
Virginia Watts - "Centralia" (memoir)
Ellen June Wright - "Unmarked Grave c. 1630" (free verse poem)
Maggie Yang - "Cartography" (free verse poem)
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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 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.”
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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 issue has been released.
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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. Close friends, relatives, students, and former students of the readers/judges, are excluded from participation in any contest/award scenario. If an author falls under any of these categories they will be disqualified, and a replacement will be chosen from among the finalists. Anyone wondering if they might be a “close friend” probably is. It seems silly to define friendship, but for our purposes, we'll call a “close friend” anyone with whom we have direct and regular correspondence (either written or verbal). And please remember that if a written work is recognizable to the judge, it will be disqualified.