The Writer's Eye Magazine - March/April 2009

I hope you like the new, clean look of The Writer’s Eye Magazine as much as I do. Featuring, crisp text on white backgrounds, easy navigation, and uncluttered web pages, the Magazine is moving forward. In addition to updating the site as a whole, we’ve added an Ask the Publisher page, as well as updated our submission guidelines and Store.

In the Writer’s Eye store, we’re in the process of adding art by one of our regular contributors, Nancy Aldersmith. Stop by later this week to see her work

Perhaps, it’s the bright yellows and greens of mustard flowers and new grass after the recent rains here in the Napa Valley, or perhaps it’s this issue’s author/writer stories and poems that make me long for spring. Though most of us are still a couple of months away from real warmth, we’re one step closer with writer/artist stories, such as Arranged Love by Saurin Parikh, The Peach Farmer’s Predicament by Nicky Drayden, and Looking for the Tree of Lights, by Laura L. Mays Hoopes.

Key Moments, by Olga Zilberbourg, and Black and White by Catherine Kennedy, remind us what it is to be human, and very much a part of the cultures in which we’re raised. Nancy Aldersmith graces our pages once again, with the last of her six-part series for the Writer’s Eye, titled A Patch of Black Ice.

We have a new book review, as well as several lovely poems about love and gratitude to remind us (well, me at least) that though we’re leaving February, we don’t need to leave love behind

And, finally, I’ve added a new page, Articles of Interest, on which we’ll post reprints of relevant articles for artists and writers.

Enjoy this March/April 2009 issue, and let me know what you think.