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 This
award-winning literary newspaper, founded in 1999, is published
by Friends of Coast Community Library in Point Arena, in
cooperation with the Independent
Coast Observer of Gualala, and appears quarterly as a
section of the ICO. 1500 copies are also distributed independently
to selected bookstores, cafés, libraries and cultural
centers in Northern, Central and Southern California. Subscriptions
are $24 per year for four issues sent by first-class mail.
Sample glimpses can be had here, and a paper copy can be obtained
gratis by contacting the editor with a postal address. The
editor can be reached by email at skRCR@starband.net.
Letters only—no attachments or submissions.
The Redwood Coast Review
Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2008. Essays by Rebecca Taksel, Gretchen Butler, Stephen Kessler, William Zehringer, Jonah Raskin, Daniela Hurezanu and Jane Merryman. Columns on Coast Community Library by Laura Ishimaru and Lori Hubbart. Poem by Daniel Barth.
Click here to read "Language and Politics: How Cheap is Talk" by Stephen Kessler.
Click here to read "True to Life," Daniela Hurezanu on abortion vs. communism in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2008. Essays by Daniel Barth, C. Kevin Smith, Stephen Kessler, Jonah Raskin, Anna Mills, and Marc Elihu Hofstadter; letters from Dana Gioia, Edward Mycue, DJ Carlile; poems by Jan Steckel and Marc Elihu Hofstadter; columns on Coast Community Library by Laura Ishimaru and Laura Schatzberg; illustrations by Futzie Nutzle and Diana Moll.
Click here to read "Staying Afloat" by Daniel Barth.
Click here to read "Lessing Is More" by Jonah Raskin.
Volume 9, Number 4, Fall 2007. Fiction by Jake Fuchs and Alta Ifland; essays by John Hafner, Stephen Kessler, Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Robert Gregory and Pamela Malone; poems by Noah Charles Pierce, Sandra Waller and Greg Hall; columns on Coast Community Library by Laura Ishimaru and Lori Hubbart.
Click
here to read Iraq War poems, by Noah Charles Pierce (1983-2007), and “A Stone” by Sandra
Waller.
Click here to read “Days of the Dead” and “A Sweet, Sensitive Kid” by Stephen Kessler.
Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 2007. Essays and reviews by
Rebecca Taksel, Jonah Raskin, Stephen Kessler, Barbara L. Baer, Daniela Hurezanu,
Peter Rivard, Laura Schatzberg, Valerie Ross. Columns on Coast Community
Library by Beth Knoche and Terra Black. Poems by Victor Hugo and Jorge Luis
Borges.
Click
here to read “War
Correspondent,” Daniela Hurezanu's review of Suite
Francaise by Irène
Némirovsky, and “Alien
About to Depart” by Sandra
Waller.
Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2007. Essays
by Daniel Barth, George Keithley, Stephen Kessler, Ben
Miller, Jane Merryman, Jonah Raskin. Book review: Pomegranate
Roads by Gregory M. Levin, reviewed by Miriam Owen.
Columns on Coast Community Library by Beth Knoche and
Terra Black. Poems by Marc Elihu Hofstadter, Alta Ifland,
Greg Hall, Futzie Nutzle, Langston Hughes.
Click here to read “Deal with the Devil: Google's Universal Library of Babel” by
Stephen Kessler.
Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2007. Nonfiction
narrative by Renée D’Aoust. Essays by Stephen
Kessler and Daniela Hurezanu. Fiction by C. Kevin Smith,
W. Jason Niedermeyer, Chester Case, and Nicholas Radtkey.
Poem by Alexa Mergen. Book review: Grub: Ideas for
an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappé & Bryant
Terry, reviewed by Miriam Owen. Columns on Coast Community
Library by Beth Knoche and Terra Black.
Click
here to read “Pitching Kafka: What is a (good)
story?” by Daniela Hurezanu.
Volume 8, Number 4, Fall 2006. Essays by
Clark Brown, Steve Edwards, Stephen Kessler, Rebecca Taksel,
Jane Merryman, and Arthur Winfield Knight. Fiction by Kerry
Trautman. Poem by Peter Boffey. Book Review: Party
in the Blitz: The English Years by Elias Canetti, reviewed by Daniela
Hurezanu. Columns on Coast Community Library by Beth Knoche
and Terra Black.
Click here to read “An Unknown Writer: Richard P.
Brickner (1933-2006)” by Stephen Kessler.
Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 2006. Essays by Daniela Hurezanu
and Jessica Grant. Memoirs by Robert Gold and Sally W. Buffington.
Fiction by Jake Fuchs. Book reviews: De
Profundis by Oscar
Wilde; What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles by Eliot Weinberger;
Cutty, One Rock by August Kleinzahler; Present
Company by
W. S. Merwin; Pleasure by Gary Young; Shark’s
Tooth by Marc Elihu Hofstadter; Diary
of Andrés Fava by
Julio Cortázar; Everyman by Philip Roth, reviewed
by Stephen Kessler; The Time of Our
Singing by Richard Powers,
reviewed by Peter Boffey; The Bell by Iris Murdoch; The
Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers; Master
and Commander by Patrick
O’Brian, reviewed by Jane Merryman. Columns on Coast
Community Library by Beth Knoche and Terra Black.
Click
here to read “No Success Like Failure: The writer
as failed nonwriter” by Jessica Grant.
Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2006. Fiction
by Rebecca Taksel. Essays by Stephen Kessler, Barbara L.
Baer, Bradley Haas, Sandra Waller, and C. Kevin Smith. Memoir
by Jo Rouse. Fable by Alta Ifland. Poem by Marc Elihu Hofstadter.
Book review: Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 by
Marina Tsvetaeva, reviewed by Daniela Hurezanu. Columns on
Coast Community Library by Beth Knoche and Terra Black.
Click
here to read “Ferlinghetti: Canonized, but not
co-opted” by Stephen Kessler, and “Double Lives” by
Alta Ifland.
WRITERS’ GUIDELINES
While special consideration is given
to Northern California writers, we welcome submissions
and have published work from all over the United States
and beyond. Stories are typically illustrated with original
artwork or photographs. Essays of all kinds are our primary
interest and greatest strength editorially. Personal history,
cultural criticism and book reviews (of recent or classic
works) are especially welcome. We are looking for work
with a strong individual voice and viewpoint, sharp wit
and distinctive style. Our 12-page tabloid format makes
us value economy, readability and original intelligence
aimed at a literate but nonspecialist reader.
We
publish very little fiction—perhaps one story per
issue—but are open to the best of what comes in.
We are even more selective when it comes to poetry, though
as space permits we do publish the occasional poem that
strikes us as exceptional. Prose may range from brief reviews
of 300 words to essays or stories of 3000 words or more.
The longer the story, the stronger it has to be to justify
the space required to accommodate it. We pay in copies.
Submissions should be typed
neatly, double spaced, with author’s
name, address, daytime phone and email at the top of the
first page. A self-addressed, stamped envelope is required
for our reply. We report back promptly, though work being
given serious consideration may be held for as long as
8 to 12 weeks while we make our final decision.
Address submissions (postal mail
only) to:
Stephen Kessler, Editor
The Redwood Coast Review
35850 Old Stage Road
Gualala, CA 95445
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