Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature

09/02/2024

Our Fiction Editor Joshua Cross reading from his new short story in Puerto del Sol at an off-site event earlier this evening.

08/02/2024

Are you at ? Please drop by and say hi at T1018 on the bookfair floor!

19/12/2023

From "Every Time She Moves," an essay by James Maskell, available in full here: https://waccamawjournal.com/nonfiction/every-time-she-moves/

13/12/2023

From "Billy" by Marina Richards in the new issue of Waccamaw: https://waccamawjournal.com/fiction/billy/

07/12/2023

We've been quiet here because we've been working hard to bring you this fresh new issue of Waccamaw! No. 28 is now live.
http://waccamawjournal.com/

10/10/2023

By Laken Franchetti, Editor-in-Chief Today, the English Department released a statement regarding the college administration’s decision to terminate the Gettysburg Review. The statement was distrib…

11/09/2023

* We closed submissions this past Friday, and then we surveyed 300 author bios from the 883 submissions we received. Among those in which we could determine where the writer lives, this is what we found.

08/09/2023

Last call!

27/08/2023

There's still time!

22/08/2023

"Journals are the prime archeological dig of the American Imagination." -- J.D. "Sandy" McClatchy (1945-2018), editor of The Yale Review from 1991 to 2017

WaccamawJournal.com is open for submissions through Sept. 8.

15/08/2023

Send your story, essay, or set of poems!
https://waccamawjournal.submittable.com/submit

10/08/2023

Read all of "Window Box" by Mike Smith at http://waccamawjournal.com/poetry/window-box/

05/08/2023

02/08/2023

Send your story, essay, or set of poems through Sept. 8. Click the submissions tab on our site.

01/08/2023

We're open for submissions through Sept. 8, 2023! Upload your work here: https://waccamawjournal.submittable.com/submit

11/04/2023

We published Carolyn Dekker's essay "From Mea Culpa to Me Too" in Waccamaw No. 23. We're excited to see it again in her new collection, North Country: A Pedagogical Almanac, published by Black Lawrence Press. Congratulations, Carolyn!

04/04/2023

Scott Nadelson's short story "Driftwood" first appeared in Waccamaw No. 26 and now is part of his new short-story collection, While It Lasts. Congratulations on the new book, Scott!

This award-winning short story collection brings us moments of tenuousness, in which characters seek out or struggle to hold on to what’s most precious in ...

31/03/2023

10/03/2023

Colin Burch, Dan Albergotti, Triniti Fisher, and Joe Oestreich at our spot, T505. Come by and say hi!

09/03/2023

Hey ! We're at T505 on the book fair floor with Coastal Carolina University's Master of Arts in Writing program. That's Waccamaw's Faculty Nonfiction Editor, Lane Osborne, on the left and Brittany Davis, Assistant Poetry Editor for Waccamaw No. 27, on the right.

02/03/2023

We are excited to announce an essay we published in Waccamaw has been awarded a place in the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology. Each year, Best of the Net judges literary works submitted by online journals and choses outstanding poems, stories, essays, and art to showcase. Read "Swimmers" by Sunni Brown Wilkinson, from Waccamaw No. 26, here:

Earl leaves a message I don’t get for some reason until the next day. He starts off by clearing his throat and says, “It’s Earl who lives across from your cul-de-sac and I’ve washed your container, the one you brought that soup in, and it’s waiting for you here. Just come on over and we’...

22/12/2022

Happy Holidays from Waccamaw! Even with our December release date, we usually don't publish holiday essays. But we loved this essay by Katarina Behrmann, "A Very Matsu Christmas." It's available at https://waccamawjournal.com/nonfiction/a-very-matsu-christmas/ .

13/12/2022

Announcing our Pushcart Prize nominations from Issue 27!

03/12/2022

We've been quiet lately because we've been working on our new issue, which now is live!

In this issue, our contributors invite you to read the crossed-out words, to rename your family members, to unstitch yourself for a lover, to risk Alaskan waters, to spend Christmas with strangers, to search for ghosts with your sister in the depths of a lake, to keep everything that might become a....

20/09/2022

Our founding editor, Dan Albergotti, will read from his new chapbook at 5:30 p.m. this Thursday in the Alford Ballroom, Atheneum Hall Room 105, on the Coastal Carolina University campus.