Thanks for joining Sea Stories again in 2009! A few celebratory announcements:

Congratulations to the 2008 Sea Stories Pushcart Prize nominees! Wikipedia describes the Pushcart Prize as “a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best ‘poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot’ published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited annually to nominate work they've published. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.” Our nominees for 2008 are (click on the names for links):

Poetry:
            "Longliner" by Alec Connah – Vernal 2008
            "Picasso's Blue Period" by Martin Willetts Jr. – Estival 2008
            "The Poet Who Mistook the Sea for a Mirror" by Mitchell
            LesCarbeau – Estival 2008

Essay:
            Holly J. Hughes, “Breathing with Whales” – Estival 2008

Best wishes to our nominees as they are evaluated by the Pushcart people!

More kudos: Sea Stories poetry editor Karla Linn Merrifield was awarded an artist-in-residency at Everglades National Park this February! Along with contributing her own poetry and photographs to Sea Stories, for over two years Karla has volunteered her time as poetry editor—and her sensitive, caring, and dedicated work has been absolutely essential to the continued existence and success of the journal. And, of course, her words and images have graced pages, readings, and exhibits outside of Sea Stories, too; for recent work, check out her “Vagabond Poet” blog, at www.karlalinn.blogspot.com. Thanks and congrats, KLM! 

And thanks to this issue's contributors for sharing their works and worlds, and to you our readers for your continuing interest and support. We hope you enjoy this latest issue of Sea Stories!

SPH

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