Views and Mechanics Publisher's Note Editor's Note Review of A Man Without a Country Review of Gail's Place Review of Three 1-Act Plays Review of Yesterday's A Dream Crossword (Solution Posted in May. Printable version in pdf format of journal.) Jan/Feb Crossword Solution Creative Nonfiction Imagining Nora By Lisa Norris Loving the Fat Girl By Christina Fisanick Nate's Fish and Poultry Shop By G. David Schwartz The Folly of Valentine's Day By Andy Martello Poetry Hawk King By Wanda D. Campbell After the Rain By Wanda D. Campbell You Cannot Fold the Flood. By Mariela Perez-Simons And Darkness Fell By Beth L. Block Demise of a Family Resort By Carolyn Howard-Johnson The Asparagus Cutters By Joe Wilkins Fiction Voices By Ed Boyd Little White Sambo By Brett Alan Sanders Dies Irae By Timothy Reilly Follow By Dawn Paul Crumbs By Kim Tremblett Cover Art Photography by Seth Brown About the Contributors © 2006, River Walk Journal and respective authors and artists. All rights reserved. Do not use or reproduce without permission. River Walk Journal, Inc. Board of Directors Chairman - Elizabeth Ross Vice Chairman - Joseph Koch Secretary/Treasurer - Geri Stock-Ross Editorial Director - Patti Kurtz, DA Literacy Director - Bill Mausteller Policy Director - PA State Rep. Jess Stairs Advisory Board Chairman - Patti Kurtz, DA Asst. Chairman - Dan Lachenman, PhD Samuel Hazo Christopher Leland Edwin Yoder Joseph Bathanti Journal Staff Publisher - Elizabeth Ross Editor-In-Chief - Joseph Koch Sen. Fiction Editor - Patti Kurtz Sen. Poetry Editor - Neeldhara Misra Sen. Creative Nonfiction Editor - Brenda Coxe Contributing Editor - Robert Dittman Publicity Director (PA) - Geri Stock-Ross For information about submissions, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/submission.html. Questions about promotions, subscribers' services, and advertising should be sent to publisher@riverwalkjournal.org. River Walk Journal, Inc. is a non-profit corporation run entirely by volunteers. For information about volunteer opportunities and internships, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/volunteer.html. |
Contributors' Bios Lisa Norris - Lisa Norris’s book of short stories, TOY GUNS, won the 1999 Willa Cather Fiction Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press. Her stories, poems and essays have also been published in such online literary magazines as Blue Moon, Oklahoma Review online, and CrossConnect, and print journals such as Ascent, Southern Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, and others. She teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech. Christina Fisanick - Christina Fisanick is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her scholarship and teaching focus on body studies, writing, and rhetoric. Her most recent work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies and Lifewriting Annual. G. David Schwartz - G. David Schwartz - the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue, and coauthor, with Jacqueline Winston, of Parables In Black and White. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered. Andy Martello - Andy is a writer, columnist, blogger, juggler, and comedian. Wanda D. Campbell Mariela Perez-Simons Beth L. Block - Beth L. Block is an attorney and a teacher of American history and constitutional law. She is also a self-taught musician and singer/songwriter. Her love of poetry began, when as a third-grader, her teacher introduced her to the art of haiku. Beth's poetry has been published in Cautionarytale, The Dogwood Journal, and Red Booth Review. Cautionarytale has also published Beth's first short story. Beth has work forthcoming in Pemmican Press, Inc. Carolyn Howard-Johnson Joe Wilkins - Joe Wilkins is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Idaho, and his work has been previously published, or is forthcoming, in Talking River Review, California Quarterly, Touchstone, Vox, Mankato, Concho River Review, and Plainsongs. Ed Boyd - Ed Boyd is in his mid-seventies and is new to writing - an endeavor he has begun to prevent decay of his brain. Brett Alan Sanders - Brett Alan Sanders is a writer, translator, and teacher living in Tell City, Indiana . His own short prose has appeared previously in print and online in such places as New Works Review, The King's English, River Walk Journal, Tertulia Magazine, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. His Young Adult novella A Bride Called Freedom was published in November of 2003 in a bilingual edition from Ediciones Nuevo Espacio and is available online at www.editorial-ene.com or www.bn.com. His translations from the Spanish have appeared in various journals in the U.S., Canada, and England; more are forthcoming in Contemporary Verse 2 (including an interview with poet María Rosa Lojo) and in PRISM International. He is co-winner of the 2005 Louis Schewe Essay Award at the University of Southern Indiana. Timothy Reilly - During the 1970s, Timothy Reilly was a professional tuba player in both the United States and Europe (in the latter, he was a member of the orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy). He is presently an elementary teacher, living in Southern California with his wife, Jo-Anne, who teaches university English courses. His short stories have been published in Slow Trains Literary Journal, The Seattle Review, Sidewalks, and The Small Pond Magazine. His favorite saints are Mozart and Frank O’Connor. Dawn Paul - Dawn Paul's stories and essays have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Blithe House Quarterly, The Redwood Coast Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Floating Holiday, and The Clockhouse Review. She is the editor/founder of Corvid Press and teaches creative writing at Montserrat College of Art and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Kim Tremblett - Kim Tremblett is a 46 year old writer who currenty resides in Cambridge, Ontario Canada. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in such publications as Bathtub Gin, The Pink Chameleon, The Prairie Journal and Scratchings on the Moon. Seth Brown - Seth is a 23-year-old liberal photographer/artist/musician from Irwin, PA. |