February 16th, 2010 / Comments Off / by editor
Dear Dedicated Readers,
The time has arrived – The Wanderlust Review is in print! You can order a copy of Volume I, Issue 1 by following this link to Lulu.com. Thank you for your support as we have pushed forward to make this publication a tangible reality. We read many great pieces during the submissions process, and in the end we think we have produced a rewarding collection of diverse, interesting voices – storytellers who have traversed every corner of the globe and who, through this volume, take us with them on their journeys. Please share the link with other writers, readers, artists, and of course, family and friends, so they too can be transported to Pofadder, Tapu, Mt. Huayna Potosi, Brestovac, and beyond.
If you have work published in this issue, we will have your contributor’s copy in the mail in the next few weeks. Thanks for your patience. In the meantime, additional copies are available for purchase from the Lulu website now.
- The Editors
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December 29th, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
The New Year's (word)-baby
As of today, all responses have been sent regarding submissions to The Wanderlust Review’s Winter 2010 issue.
Congratulations to everyone who had work accepted and a sincere thanks to all who shared their work. As writers ourselves who deal with the ups and downs of submitting work to literary journals, we understand that it takes a fair share of guts to put a word-baby out into the stream and to wait and see what happens. Writing (quality writing, that is) has become a hobby of passion – not commerce – and it is your passion that keeps journals like this one alive and growing.
So, long story short, THANK YOU!
Now that we have a solid idea of the work that will appear in our inaugural print issue, we will hopefully have hot, steaming journals rolling off the presses by mid-February. Around this time, we will also be unveiling a few other *very minor* changes that, for the time being, we’re playing close to the chest.
However, one change that is in effect immediately is our new e-mail address. For all questions, queries, comments, complaints and future submissions (once the submission period reopens), please contact us at our new e-mail: wanderlustreview@gmail.com.
Wishing everyone a happy and safe New Year,
- The Editors
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December 1st, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
Whew! What a great submission period! We editors have our work cut out for us over the next few months, carefully sifting through a mountain of great work as we put together our first print issue. Thank you to everyone who shared with us; we continue to be impressed with the high quality of work you send us.
For those that did submit, here is some information for you. We have already started the task of reviewing the submitted work. You will most likely hear from us – whether or not we choose your piece for the winter issue – by the middle of January 2010, at the latest. We very highly recommend that you follow us either on Facebook or Twitter, or via our RSS feed, because those will be the avenues we’ll use to periodically check in during the reviewing process.
The winter print issue (and its corresponding online accompaniment) will hopefully be on sale in early to mid February 2010, sold directly from us via this website. All proceeds from the print issue go toward keeping the WLR up and running into the distant future.
As a reminder, any work submitted to us between NOW and April 1, 2010 will be directed to the trash bin without being read. Please review our submission guidelines for information on our next submission period (which runs from April 1, 2010 to June 1, 2010). As always, please direct all questions to editor@wanderlustreview.com.
Check back often for more details! Thanks again to everyone who continues to support The Wanderlust Review!
- The Editors
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November 23rd, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
As of today, there is officially one week left to submit to The Wanderlust Review’s first print issue. If you plan on submitting your stories, poems, plays, photographs or artwork please do so no later than 12:00 PM on November 30th!
Interested? Head over to our submission guidelines for the details, or read what we have previously published.
We look forward to seeing your work!
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November 4th, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
With only one more month left in the Winter ’10 submission period, we’ve gotten a boost from a few sites that have been kind enough to list us in their directories.
Thank you litmags.org, duotrope’s digest, and NewPages!
Also another, and equally-large thank you, to all of our readers / writers who have mentioned us on their own sites and blogs. Thank you 3:AM Magazine, NewPages Blog, Smitroverse, Cha, Wandering Dona, Jayms Ramirez, CommonLine, and Chris Allen (as well as anyone else we forgot to mention!)
We’re very interested in expanding our partnership with other literary journals in cyberspace. If you are a journal and would like to swap links with us, please shoot us an e-mail at editor@wanderlustreview.com. Don’t worry, we aren’t contagious.
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October 1st, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
As summer comes to a screeching halt, it’s now time to put all of those travel adventures from the past few months into words (or pictures) and share them 
with us. As of today (October 1st), we are now accepting submissions for our Winter 2010 issue. We are very excited about this upcoming issue since it will be our first foray into print.
Interested? Please review our submission guidelines, get a taste of what we’re looking for, and if you have any questions, we’re happy to answer them.
We look forward to reading/viewing your work!
P.S. – The first three people who can correctly identify the explorer in the above picture win a Wanderlust Review sticker! Send your answer to editor@wanderlustreview.com or direct message us on Twitter, and check back often for more chances to win other WLR merchandise!
UPDATE (10/4/09): There’s still 2 stickers left!
UPDATE (10/9/09): ONLY 1 STICKER LEFT!
All stickers are now gone! Check back often for more opportunities to win WLR merchandise!
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August 31st, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
Cover image: "Dinner Place with Chairs" by Mariette Papic
Non-Fiction
Just How Much is Good Karma Going for These Days, Anyway?
By Theresa Bucher
Arrival in Cairo
By Conal Darcy
Los Cocos
By Noelle V. Dor
A White Magician in Africa
By Brian Eckert
The Hakata Bums
By Brian Eckert
The Jackson Hole Diaries
By Brian Eckert
Filling in the Missing Pieces
By Erin Foran
Foreign Correspondence: Ananda Osel’s ‘Dispatches from the Third World’
By Erin Foran
Sharing Dal and Devotion: Amritsar’s Golden Temple
By Erin Foran
The Hotel on St. James Place and the Boardwalk
By Molly Golubcow
West Enders
By Sjimon Eden Gompers
Bowling in Kimono
By Laura Heldt
Traveling in Buddhist Thailand
By Daniel Hudon
Of Mules and Men
By Liz Lank
In the Heat of It
By Jessica Seck Marquis
January, Newfoundland
By Tim Marsh
Girl Meets Hatchback
By Mindy Moreland
Climbing the Mountain
By Andrew Morris
Vietnam through the Lens: Part One
By Edward Palm
Vietnam through the Lens: Part Two
By Edward Palm
Amazon Days with the Achuar
By Jayms Ramirez
We Cover Our Faces to be Seen
By Jayms Ramirez
Subletting Go
By Mark Wasserman
From Seattle to San Francisco
By Emily Whistler
Photo Essays
Perils of a Port Pilot
By Jayms Ramirez
Riding Lines
By Jayms Ramirez
Fiction
An Acute Lack of Perspective
By Chris Allen
A Momentary Pause
By Charlotte Austin
16th and Lovejoy
By Sean Brown
Sames of Am
By Julien Levy
Doing the Rounds
By Juan Carlos Mendizabal
The Sunny Day Ranch
By Kerri Schmanek
Infestation
By Alexander J. Theoharides
Riding the Bus to Heaven
By D.L. Wechner
Poetry
Self-portrait 2008
By Amelia Apfel
San Salvador City
By Andrés Norman Castro Arévalo
Through the Desert
By Olivia Arieti
Julie (Winter, NY, 2009)
By John Bicello
Ketchikan Totem
By Toby Bielawski
Sabar
By Amy Copperman
The Year I Began to Wear Red
By Michela A. Costello
Aspect of Urban Anonymity
By Ainsley Drew
Untitled Tanaga
By Robert Francis Flor
Into the Wild
By Dom Giovanni
MoMa
By Morgan Louis Graham
Greek Vacation
By Amanda M. Halkiotis
Finding Chris McCandless in Utah
By Brittany Faith Harmon
2 Swedish Girls on Vacation
By Frank J. Hopkins
European History
By Holly Kent-Payne
A Spoonful of Europe
By Natalie Korman
Reykjavik Sunset
By Barbara F. Lefcowitz
Off Air
By Jesse Putnam
East/West
By Ali Shapiro
Andante
By J.D. Smith
Drinking the Mississippi
By Valeria Tsygankova
Photography
50 Tulpen
By Marissa Barker
Costa Del Sol
By S.N. Jacobson
Pacific Rendezvous
By S.N. Jacobson
Brick Lane
By Cheri Lucas
Bamako Boy
By Mariette Papic
Dinner Place with Chairs
By Mariette Papic
Palace of Fine Arts
By Suzin Porter
Hot-Spring Rothko
By Aaron Schmookler
Sunset over Victoria Harbor, B.C.
By D.L. Wechner
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August 31st, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
By Dom Giovanni
“To everyone who makes journey”
Walking into the wild,
Leaning on the shoulders of the sun,
Your footsteps tracing mine,
Mine, tracing the steps of those who walked before,
The sound of our feet gone now,
Blown away by the winds of anonymity.
My motel was beside a marble headstone
On a hill in a secluded cemetery,
Where light filtered through an oak-branched roof.
No car, no companion, no money, and no food
But a small carton of milk and child’s box of cereal,
Purchased with my last change on the road an hour before.
I slept there, snuggling into the dry grass of summer,
Thinking of weary men, like myself, who lay beneath blossoming flags,
Giving no more thought to their loves, their times, their wars;
And, in spite of our intellectual development, all of us
Are involved in wars and revolutions, victories and defeats,
Even if only in the private psychosis’s of our minds.
Some men, too, must have lain beside me, who with callous tongues,
Cursed the darkness, as deceivers do, when the light fails.
Others, thankful for the peaceful slumber that had overtaken them,
Dreamt no more of apple-picking time and the great harvest.
Still others, forgetting happier times and the flowers of desire,
Died forgetful of even their own names and their ancestors,
Leaving a stranger to carve their name upon a stone.
As the alien stars peered down upon my exhausted frame,
Lying as if in state, within that sanctuary of decay,
I locked myself within the warm embrace of sleep.
My story did not end with failure and suffering on the fringe
Of the rough American wilderness,
Or with loathing that sent me away from those with whom I differed,
For such hauteur of the spirit I detested and I still do.
That black night of the soul ended with a burst of pure fire,
Forcing my eyes open. “Good morning, dead boys,” I called
To the mounds of the deceased, and being in no hurry to move,
I turned and slept surrounded by death an hour more.
Epilogue:
Wine berries grew fat and lazy on a thorny bush,
Along a high field nearby, overlooking a distant town.
Soon their plump red moons were floating in my cup,
And as the dew melted from the grass,
I ate a sweet breakfast fit for a vagabond king,
With only one thousand more miles to go,
No car, no companion, no money, and no food.
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Dom Giovanni is an Irish Italian poet who has travel extensively throughout the world. He presently resides in Southeastern, Pennsylvania, where he writes and kayaks the Upper Chesapeake Bay region.
Posted in: Poetry
Tags: nature
August 31st, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
By Marissa Barker
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Marissa Barker is a photographer based in San Francisco, CA.
Posted in: Photography
Tags: europe, the netherlands
August 31st, 2009 / Comments Off / by editor
By Cheri Lucas
Colorful graffiti and rave and club flyers mark the walls along Brick Lane, and cyclists and wanderers alike explore the streets in this hip, arty, and culturally diverse area of the East End of London.
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Cheri Lucas’ writing and photography has been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines, and websites, as well as literary journals such as SoMa Literary Review and MARY Journal. While her home base is San Francisco, she considers herself a nomad in mind and spirit. Check out what she’s up to at www.cherilucas.com.
Posted in: Photography
Tags: buildings, europe, great britain, london
