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We are overjoyed to announce that Civility and You 2020 (Windward Review Vol. 18) is viewable in digital format. Click on the journal cover to take a look.
We can't thank our contributors enough for sharing their hearts with us during these uncertain times. It has been a challenging journey. But we are truly so honored to share your work with others.
Civility and You 2020 is a testament to our resilience as a species. In it, you will find human truths normally left in the realm of the ineffable, thematic and genre-based twists and turns, unexpected revelations, mind-bending connections, and more.
This is a publication aimed at healing and the recovery of our humanity. Please enjoy it whole-heartedly.
We can't thank our contributors enough for sharing their hearts with us during these uncertain times. It has been a challenging journey. But we are truly so honored to share your work with others.
Civility and You 2020 is a testament to our resilience as a species. In it, you will find human truths normally left in the realm of the ineffable, thematic and genre-based twists and turns, unexpected revelations, mind-bending connections, and more.
This is a publication aimed at healing and the recovery of our humanity. Please enjoy it whole-heartedly.
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Windward Review is an annually published, print literary journal showcasing narratives unique to the South Texas Coastal Bend and the border region.
We seek bold and memorable works. We invite risk-takers, traditionalists, community writers, academics, and undergraduates to send us their best work. We look for well-crafted poetry and prose that expands and redefines human truths found in our region. We also look for art that is memorable enough to speak for itself. We especially invite submissions from those who can speak to any of the many dynamic borderland experiences, including bilingual work and translations. We are very excited to review plays and screenplays this year, as well. |
We are closed for submissions to Vol. 19, 2021: "Empathy and Entropy." Submit to our Blog! 
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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?
Are you looking for a starting place while getting into non-fiction writing or publishing? Or are you simply looking for a way to connect to others with your words?
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.
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?
Are you looking for a starting place while getting into non-fiction writing or publishing? Or are you simply looking for a way to connect to others with your words?
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.
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Our new blog is a gift to the South Texas creative community. We want 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. |
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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.
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
Senior Editor
"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.
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
Senior Editor