The Winter Issue  

The Fall 2013 issue of NWW is up with new work from Andy Plattner, Eric Pankey, Joe David Bellamy, Rose Hunter, Alfred Corn, Richard Mirabella. All that plus Quincy Lehr’s won­der­fully abun­dant poem, “The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar.”

Notes From Buffalo, August 9, 2013 On March 7, 1965, the Sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama threw one of the most famous punches in American his­tory, on the steps of the cour­t­house in Selma. The man that Sheriff Jim Clark punched in the face, C.T.Vivian, was named yes­ter­day as a recip­i­ent of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Notes on Don Quixote, Volume One This morn­ing a small pos­sum was res­cued by my wife from a swim­ming pool.  He was a sad, wet, cold-looking crea­ture with large, glossy eyes that were solid black. Who knows how he had wound up in the pool, but my wife dis­cov­ered him on the top rung of the lad­der, wait­ing I guess […]

Repurposing Your Big Box Before you begin, you must divest your­self of sen­ti­men­tal mem­o­ries of your grand open­ing.  The park­ing lot was full, cars cir­cling, spilling out onto the sur­round­ing streets.  The cus­tomers waited on the side­walk for hours, sprawled on fold­ing chairs, bun­dled in blan­kets, gulp­ing big gulps. They nearly crushed one another when the doors […]

from Box City 1983, Houston, Texas. October­.  According to the Colonial Americans, this was the Hunter’s moon.  Trip found a big swath of vel­vet tucked away in Judy’s closet.  It was mid­night blue.  “This is what the guy meant when he sang about blue vel­vet,” Trip told Nora.   They cut stars from card­board and wrapped them in tinfoil, […]

Lake Resort Almost fif­teen years ago, Lane bought a lake resort with her sis­ter, Elsa. It was a wild thing to do. It was the sort of thing you did when the world was blar­ing around you, when every­thing seemed too real and impos­si­ble any­way and dan­ger was famil­iar enough that you were tired of being afraid […]

Three Pieces A Red, Red Rose When you shiver in heels, there is always the chance that you will fall in a hurry. I would like to learn the trick to not turn­ing to con­fetti when dressed up. Until that time, which will no doubt be never, I will stick with these extremely unprovoca­tive crepe-soled shoes designed to prevent […]

Three Poems On Birds, Women and Fire The goldfinch needs fire, the cold slip of her flicks past as sound­less as a thought lost to a ques­tion.  But you, you need water.

I had lived all my life in the city but never paid much atten­tion to the river. I always thought Coovum was the Tamil word for sewer, until I met him. The fetid, repul­sive stench was all that came to my mind at the men­tion of the river. But, his face lit up every time he spoke […]

We’re work­ing hard to fin­ish up the sum­mer issue of NWW. Starting now we have sev­eral new pieces online, with more to come.

Delighted to report that we’ve added a ter­rific new Jennifer Pashley story “Hearts” to the Spring issue, along with four won­der­ful pieces by Diane Kirsten Martin. And last but not least, an intrigu­ing short non­fic­tion work by Tiff Holland.  Click ‘em at right or drop down the drop down menu above. Note that some­times that menu […]

We’ve pub­lished the Spring 2013 issue tonight, clev­erly avoid­ing pub­lish­ing it on April 1. The issue includes work by Baron Wormser, Peter Shippy, Sidney Rifkin, Paul Lisicky, Robert Lopez, Lydia Copeland Gwyn and more. All of the work is won­der­ful and thrilling, so you’ll want to read up right away. Also be aware we’ll be adding […]