Wild River Review

Wild River Review is an online magazine that publishes in-depth reporting, works of literature, art, visual art, reviews, interviews, and columns by and about contemporary artists, photographers, and writers. Founded in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, also known as “The Genius Belt,” by a group known as the Wild River gang, the magazine has been operating since 2006 under the direction of Founder & Executive Editor Joy E. Stocke.

WRR mission statement

Wild River Review is committed to free speech, multi-cultural exploration, cutting edge news coverage, and timeless themes. Wild River Review provides a forum for dialogue between writers, artists, scientists, musicians, poets, and readers to foster connection and understanding between and within cultures. To that end, they work with and support talented artists—emerging and well established—in every genre.

The magazine showcases in-depth journalism, essays, stories, poems, reviews, comics, artwork, and profile innovative thinkers from around the world. In the “First Bylines” section, they publish emerging writers’ and artists’ works to help launch their careers. In addition to regular international columns, they host bloggers whose frequent posts encourage the magazine’s spirit of conversation.

Wild River Review is the creation of a team of professional writers and artists who are skilled editors in the genres of short and long fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics.

Literary events and featured artists

The writers and editors at Wild River Review have participated in various literary events and festivals local, national, and international, including Quark Park and Poet’s Alley, both held in Princeton, New Jersey, as well as the PEN World Voices: Festival of International Literature, held in New York City.

Coverage of a Lindisfarne Association Symposium, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is collected in a section called Scenes from a Symposium and includes blogged snapshots of Cultural Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, pioneer mathematician of the chaos theory Ralph Abraham, Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher at Upaya Zen Center, Roshi Joan Halifax, and others.

Authors and artists featured in the pages of Wild River Review include:

Norwegian novelist Per Petterson, Sci-fi, fantasy, and fiction author Neil Gaiman, Swiss/English writer and television producer Alain de Botton, English essayist/novelist Pico Iyer, Ivory Coast, Graphic Novelist Marguerite Abouet Marguerite Abouet, and Iraqi Poet Saadi Youssef.

Wild River’s Association with the Quark Park project in Princeton, New Jersey has led to a series of interviews with some of the most distinguished names in modern science including Freeman Dyson, David Dobkin, Tracey Shors, Rush Holt, and Peter Ward.

In 2007 the WRR covered Michael D. Fay's Fire and Ice: Marine Corps Combat Art From Afghanistan and Iraq, and photographer Suzanne Opton's The Soldier, exhibited at the James A. Michener Art Museum from June 8 - October 27, 2007.

Reporting

The Wild River's series about Abu Ghraib prisoner torture and abuse began publication in August 2007.“The Other Side of Abu Ghraib—the Detainees’ Quest for Justice” examined the event through the lenses of lawyers Susan Burke and Shereef Akeel, torture victim testimony, the healing experiences of a yoga teacher, and was highlighted with artwork by Daniel Heyman.

In January 2007 the Wild River Review continued its conversation with Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, in an article reporting on Article 301 of the Turkish penal code for insulting Turkishness.

External links

• The Wild River Review official site
• Interview with Orhan Pamuk
• Interview with Alain de Botton
• Interview with Neil Gaiman
• Interview with Pico Iyer
• Interview with Per Petterson