The second issue of Waccamaw, the national online literary journal published from Coastal Carolina University, was launched on October 31, 2008 - the 213th anniversary of the birth of John Keats.
In this issue, you will find new poems, stories, and essays by:
Sonny Brewer • Steve Cushman • Michael Czyzniejewski • Darrin Doyle • Laura Valeri • Kevin Wilson • Rebecca Barry • Sonya Huber • Judith Kitchen • Stephen Kuusisto • Kyle Minor • Kathleen Rooney • Chad Davidson • Robin Ekiss • Amaud Jamaul Johnson • Anna Journey • David Kirby • Inman Majors • Sebastian Matthews • Natasha Trethewey • Brian Turner • Doug Van Gundy • Steven Wingate
These authors have won, among other awards, the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the National Poetry Series, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Award, the Dorset Prize, Wallace Stegner Fellowships from Stanford University, and individual fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. Another was a finalist for last year’s National Book Award in poetry. Our authors have also published books with such houses as W. W. Norton, HarperCollins, and Houghton Mifflin.
In short, it’s an impressive lineup, and you’ll find these credentials confirmed in the work itself.
Please take a moment to visit the site. And if you see fiction editor Jason Ockert, nonfiction editor Joe Oestreich, and webmaster Jeannie French in the halls, please congratulate them on their excellent work in making this second issue so outstanding.
The second issue of Waccamaw, the national online literary journal published from Coastal Carolina University, was launched on October 31, 2008 - the 213th anniversary of the birth of John Keats.
