WRITE FOR OUR BLOG
Have you always wanted to write an article, a review, or a blog post like the ones you read online? Do you have thoughts about the recent pandemic that you feel others need to hear? Or are you simply looking for a way to connect to others with your words?
​Are you looking for a starting place for getting into non-fiction writing or publishing? This is your place to share the things that you feel need to be said, the yearnings of your heart, your pains, pleasures, joys, and everything else.  
Please let us share YOUR words with our community... (more)
Our new blog is a gift to the South Texas creative community meant to fill the gap that has been created with the loss of our ability to physically connect. This blog is a symbol of our resilience as a community and as writers.

We are continually looking for blog submissions of any kind of writing, especially (but not exclusively) from South Texas community members. We have published a diverse range of material, from non-fiction stories about life in the time of COVID-19 to music/ video game reviews, tributes to the act of reading, poetry, blog writings about parenting, and Facebook posts about travel. ​

Send blog submissions to windwardreviewblog@gmail.com.

Also, email us any questions about the blog or what you can share. ((Hint: We have very relaxed guidelines and we love creativity.))
​Submissions are closed for Vol. 18 of Windward Review, an edition exploring CIVILITY AND YOU.  Thank you to all who have generously shared their words with us. 

Editors may be working from home, but the Windward Review team is still passionately working hard to make Volume 18 a success. We look forward to showing our community and amazing contributors the journal we are lovingly putting together. In an effort to remain close and in support of our valuable community of writers, readers, and friends, we have started a blog.
 EDITOR'S NOTE TO VISITORS 

"We believe that great works of art are not what you expect them to be. They are instead, works that excite and mesmerize because they are not.  As editors, we cultivate originality in the frame of convention rather than progenerate convention. Our favorite works pay homage to the human experience, with its surprising commonalities of emotions and histories,... as-well-as relish its necessary subjectivity. The singular experience of every person reminds us that being a brilliant artist takes nothing but a brave acceptance of a need for authenticity.   
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If you submit to us and get accepted, know that a devoted team of editors pored through your work on many more than one occasions, engaged with their own creative process, and felt intuitively that the work would be complimented in that years' volume. As editors, we are nothing more than humble creatives ourselves who really love what we do. We rely on heart and what speaks to us in the larger world that year in order to put our journal together.  We do this because we know that our journal has a chance to make a difference with the statement made in the final product.

​If you submit to us and do not get accepted, know that we only fail to accept pieces when they are more likely to be fully appreciated and emotionally witnessed in another volume, another journal, or at another time. For those not accepted, we will contact you with some notes on why, especially to the tune of why the work didn't feel right to us that term. And we are always enthusiastically willing to further engage with you if you would like more extrapolation or help. We do this because we could not call ourselves editors if we didn't become creative partners to everyone who is willing to spend time with us.
 
As a creative publication, our lifeblood is a philosophy of compassion being the most important part of editing.  We are a team of editors and volunteers, but our real role is making everyone who submits to us, works with us, or spends time with us know that they are a welcomed Windward Review family member.  
 
 
Thanks for reading, " 

Zoe Ramos Jmj
Managing Editor ​