May 2021 | Issue #9
![triptych for Alams for Cleaning Out the Painter's House](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-05-archive-alams-for-cleaning-painters-house-1024x482.jpg)
![triptych for Snake Fence](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-05-archive-snake-fence-1024x481.jpg)
![triptych for While Looking for Eating Utencils in my Uncle's Kitchen](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2021-05-archive-looking-for-utencils-uncles-kitchen-1024x484.jpg)
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. —Anaïs Nin
April 2021 | Issue #8
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-archive-where-love-will-need-no-proof-1024x481.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-archive-after-youve-saved-a-life-1024x482.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-archive-brief-history-of-blue-1024x480.jpg)
The line of words fingers your own heart. It invades arteries, and enters the heart on a flood of breath; it presses the moving rims of thick valves; it palpates the dark muscle strong as horses, feeling for something, it knows not what. —Annie Dillard
March 2021 | Issue #7
My sufferings are part of my self and my art. —Edvard Munch
February 2021 | Issue #6
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-archives-a-little-watershed-1024x482.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-archives-theres-something-a-little-wrong-1024x480.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2021-02-archives-janet-brought-rhymer-home-1024x482.jpg)
There is just no escaping the fact that there is a tight relationship between the words we use, the type of thoughts we can think, and what we can believe to be true about the world. —Sam Harris
January 2021 | Issue #5
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-01-archive-beach-bum-1-1024x456.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2021-01-archive-mass-invisible-labors-1024x456.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-01-archive-sink-or-swim-1-1024x456.jpg)
Above all, don’t forget. Commit everything – each blade of grass, each teary-eyed child, each unmarked grave – to memory. Then when you survive and are older, tell your story. —Andrew Lam
December 2020 | Issue #4
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-archive-avian-elegies-1024x478.jpg)
![image triptych for A Thing of Beauty](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-archive-a-thing-of-beauty-1024x478.jpg)
![triptych for oil spill](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-archive-oil-spill-1024x478.jpg)
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others. —Sherwood Anderson
November 2020 | Issue #3
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. —J.R.R. Tolkien
Editor’s Note
Makers
“Sickly Sweet Companion”
October 2020 | Issue #2
![Pioggia triptych](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-archive-pioggia-1024x478.jpg)
![Jumpers triptych](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-archive-jumpers-1024x478.jpg)
![ballad of tribades triptych](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-archive-ballads-tribades-song-sodomites-1024x478.jpg)
Writing is a form of prayer. —Franz Kafka
September 2020 | Issue #1
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-archive-forgive-the-form-1024x478.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-archive-three-women-writing-1024x478.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-archive-we-have-always-been-1024x478.jpg)
Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don’t matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake. —Jean Rhys
Editor’s Note
Makers
Author Q&A with Jefferson Navicky
February 2020 – Sample Issue
![triptych for "only now"](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-02-archive-only-now-1024x432.jpg)
![triptych image for "skinner's wife's box"](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-02-archive-skinners-wifes-box-1024x433.jpg)
![](https://waterwheelreview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-02-archive-in-its-distance-1024x434.jpg)