Homepage Spring 2014

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Dear Readers,

Welcome to our Spring 2014 “GRAVITY” issue. We’re incredibly proud to present to you the wonderful and diverse array of voices in this issue, all complimented by the illustrative photography of the marvelously multi-talented Wiley Quixote and his team at Wiley Quixote Artworks.

Here at r.kv.r.y., we love words. We love to play with and explore words, and we took to the theme of GRAVITY in all its forms. A force of nature. A state of being. Seriousness. Importance. A universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other. We even mined the etymology and explored gravity’s relationship to heaviness, to the grave. You should find a lot to enjoy in this issue. I hope that you will take the time to explore it.

Our final themes for 2014 will be ENDANGERED (July) and APPALACHIA (October). Our January 2015 issue will be themed CAREGIVERS. And (a quick reminder) we will be closed to submissions during June, July, and August.

Yours in Recovery,

Mary Akers
Editor-in-chief

Homepage Summer 2013

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Dear Readers,

Welcome to our Summer 2013 “SEXUALITY” issue. We’re incredibly proud to present to you the wonderful and diverse array of voices in this issue. Among the many fine pieces to enjoy, you’ll find an essay about stripping as molting, a serialized short story about a love triangle during a tornado, a poem about the lasting beauty of scars, and a Shorts On Survival piece about the “real work” of body recovery.

Our illustrator is the talented and generous Peter Groesbeck who graciously allowed us to select from his body of creative work to illustrate this issue. If you like what you see, please visit his website here.

Thanks again readers, for giving r.kv.r.y. a portion of your day; and thank you writers, for continuing to trust us with your fine work.

Our upcoming themes are “SHIPWRECKED” (the October issue) and “ART OF RECOVERY” (the January 2014 issue), which will be illustrated with the paintings of old masters (ekphrastic work welcome).

Yours in Recovery,

Mary Akers
Editor-in-chief

Homepage Winter 2013

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Dear Readers,

Welcome to 2013, and welcome to our Winter “FRIENDS & FAMILY” issue. We’re proud to present an interesting and diverse array of voices and perspectives — about the families we are born into and the families we create, about the families we love (or love to hate).

Our illustrator is the talented and generous watermedia artist Marilyn Sears Bourbon who graciously allowed us to select from her body of creative work to illustrate this issue. If you like what you see, please visit her website here. And thanks again readers, for giving r.kv.r.y. a portion of your day; thank you writers, for continuing to trust us with your fine work; and thank you Al Gore for the Internet that made it all possible. Our upcoming themes will be Faith & Doubt (April), Sexuality (July), and Shipwrecked (October).

Yours in Recovery,

Mary Akers
Editor-in-Chief