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West Marin Review A literary & art journal inspired by the coastal landscape of Northern California, featuring local and international writers and artists.

West Marin Review is an award-winning literary & art journal inspired by the coastal landscape of Northern California, a rural area that has long inspired artists and writers from around the world. Ten volumes published over twelve years have included more than 100 stories, some 200 poems, and 500-plus pieces of art. Past issues have featured luminaries such as Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams,

Peter Coyote, Natalie Goldberg, Tom Killion, Marty Knapp, and Jane Hirshfield alongside equally bright newcomers, young artists, and poets from local schools, and mere mortals, ordinary readers like most of us, who took a chance and submitted stories, poetry, and art in every medium. A bookseller once wrote to us, “You are curating the rare and extraordinary.”

What is rarest in the West Marin Review is its diversity, not only geographically (with contributors from Bolinas, California to Oxford, England), not only among our contributors (from five years to 85, from professionals to amateurs), but most notably in our content. Our most recent volume offers up stories that will shock you and make you laugh, often in the same piece, and essays guaranteed to teach you something you did not know and perhaps could not have imagined. Writing styles vary from reportorial, to reflective, to wildly fanciful. Our mission is to encourage and celebrate reading, writing, and art. We’re delighted to be recognized for our diverse contributorship and for the Review’s unique model of a community working together on a project that promotes literacy and art, and that includes, educates, and entertains everyone. Published by Neighbors & Friends, a volunteer group of editors and designers, with support from Point Reyes Books and Commonweal, the West Marin Review has been awarded by the New York Book Show and applauded by Marin Magazine’s Editors’ Choice. The West Marin Review is available through various independent booksellers in the Bay Area and online at westmarinreview.org. Vol. 10 image (detail): Dana DeKalb, Lotus Eater, 2018, acrylic on polyester, 18x18 inches.

Thinking back to our very special Summer Reading Event as a part of Commonweal’s 2022 Open House. The beauty of West Mar...
15/08/2022

Thinking back to our very special Summer Reading Event as a part of Commonweal’s 2022 Open House. The beauty of West Marin never disappoints ☀️🌿!

Thank you to Commonweal for hosting us, and to our participating contributors: poets Carl Nagin and Gail Entrekin , and artists Victoria Chaban and Kim Ford Kitz










29/01/2022

We will climb the highest mountain to get a copy of the West Marin Review! And fall in love!

Happy New Year! 🎉🎊 We’ve recently added to our website an expanded look inside WMR Volume 9! (link in bio) Learn about i...
10/01/2022

Happy New Year! 🎉🎊 We’ve recently added to our website an expanded look inside WMR Volume 9! (link in bio) Learn about indigenous artisan communities in Mimi Robinson’s piece about Kyrgyzstan Yurts, or read the spectacular story by L.L Babb titled “Chuck Lange Kicks Ass.”

Photo 1: Yurt camp at Lake Issey-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, Mimi Robinson ( )

Photo 2: “The Bear and the Bees,” 2018, Julia Lucey ( )

Volumes 9 + 10 wishing you a Merry Christmas!🎄🦌 From all of us at West Marin Review, thank you for your support. We hope...
25/12/2021

Volumes 9 + 10 wishing you a Merry Christmas!🎄🦌 From all of us at West Marin Review, thank you for your support. We hope you have a safe and restful holiday season ✨☃️










A wonderful addition to any bookshelf 📚✨ For you late shoppers out there, there is still time to visit Pt Reyes Books, e...
21/12/2021

A wonderful addition to any bookshelf 📚✨ For you late shoppers out there, there is still time to visit Pt Reyes Books, either in Point Reyes Station or online to get our special Holiday Book Bundle! Link in bio 🎁









Anyone still searching for the perfect gift this holiday season🙋🏻‍♀️? If there is an art, poetry, prose, nature, and/or ...
10/12/2021

Anyone still searching for the perfect gift this holiday season🙋🏻‍♀️? If there is an art, poetry, prose, nature, and/or history lover in your life, then the search is over! The West Marin Review is now offering a Holiday Book Bundle! Volumes 2-10 can be purchased together for only $100 through Point Reyes Books (ptreyesbooks.com/product/west-marin-review-bundle)That’s over a decade of local art and literature waiting to be discovered!









West Marin Review Volume 10 rising out of the Truckee River on a wave of prose, poetry, art! Get your own copy at westma...
13/05/2021

West Marin Review Volume 10 rising out of the Truckee River on a wave of prose, poetry, art! Get your own copy at westmarinreview.org!

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West Marin Review is an award-winning literary & art journal inspired by the coastal landscape of Northern California. Framed by the Point Reyes National Seashore and pastureland hills, western Marin County has long inspired artists and writers from around the world. Submission guidelines at westmarinreview.org. Published annually by Neighbors and Friends, Black Mountain Circle and Point Reyes Books, the journal features poetry, prose, and art inspired by the natural beauty and community of West Marin, California. Although influenced by place, contributors to the Review are from every place. Past issues have included the works of poets and writers Robert Hass, Natalie Goldberg, Linda Pastan, and Philip Fradkin, and photography and artwork by Jack Welpot, Marty Knapp, Inez Storer, Wendy Schwartz, and many others.

Volume 6 of the West Marin Review won first prize among periodicals and literary journals at the Book Industry Guild of New York's 30th annual awards. This is the second award from the Guild for the West Marin Review. “Our mission is to encourage and celebrate reading, writing, and art in this rural community and beyond,” says managing editor Doris Ober. “We’re delighted to be recognized for our diverse contributorship and for the Review’s unique model of a community working together on a project that promotes literacy and art, and that includes, educates, and entertains everyone.” The West Marin Review is available through various independent booksellers in the Bay Area and online at westmarinreview.org.