West Marin Review is an award-winning literary & art journal inspired by the coastal landscape of Northern California, a rural area that has long inspired artists and writers from around the world. Ten volumes published over twelve years have included more than 100 stories, some 200 poems, and 500-plus pieces of art. Past issues have featured luminaries such as Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams,
Peter Coyote, Natalie Goldberg, Tom Killion, Marty Knapp, and Jane Hirshfield alongside equally bright newcomers, young artists, and poets from local schools, and mere mortals, ordinary readers like most of us, who took a chance and submitted stories, poetry, and art in every medium. A bookseller once wrote to us, “You are curating the rare and extraordinary.”
What is rarest in the West Marin Review is its diversity, not only geographically (with contributors from Bolinas, California to Oxford, England), not only among our contributors (from five years to 85, from professionals to amateurs), but most notably in our content. Our most recent volume offers up stories that will shock you and make you laugh, often in the same piece, and essays guaranteed to teach you something you did not know and perhaps could not have imagined. Writing styles vary from reportorial, to reflective, to wildly fanciful. Our mission is to encourage and celebrate reading, writing, and art. We’re delighted to be recognized for our diverse contributorship and for the Review’s unique model of a community working together on a project that promotes literacy and art, and that includes, educates, and entertains everyone. Published by Neighbors & Friends, a volunteer group of editors and designers, with support from Point Reyes Books and Commonweal, the West Marin Review has been awarded by the New York Book Show and applauded by Marin Magazine’s Editors’ Choice. The West Marin Review is available through various independent booksellers in the Bay Area and online at westmarinreview.org. Vol. 10 image (detail): Dana DeKalb, Lotus Eater, 2018, acrylic on polyester, 18x18 inches.
