The Seaboard Review of Books
Monday, June 22, 2026
In this issue:
Stephanie Makes a Scene by Bruce W. Bishop (Fiction)
What the Tide Brings In by Sierra Benayon-Abraham (Fiction)
Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza, by Hassan Kanafani (Non-Fiction)
Revolutionary Science by Bruce H. Jennings (Non-Fiction)
Moon Writing by Catherine Graham and Robert Frede Kenter (Poetry)
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
Fiction
Stephanie Makes a Scene by Bruce W. Bishop
In Grow Up, Rory Rafferty, author Bruce Bishop introduced us to the unforgettable characters Rory Rafferty and Stephanie Whittaker, two young Maritimers reaching for their dreams in late 1970s Toronto. In that novel, Stephanie was already living in Toronto, striving to make her way as an actress. Rory was just arriving, planning to work as a busboy whil…
What the Tide Brings In by Sierra Benayon-Abraham
What does a perfect girl risk when she starts asking questions?
Non-Fiction
Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza, by Hassan Kanafani
Hassan Kanafani’s writing in Pizza Before We Die: An Eyewitness Account in Gaza is exquisite. But, like any good writer, Kanafani has self-doubts. What if his eloquence distracts, rather than informs, the reader?
Revolutionary Science by Bruce H. Jennings
For centuries, small farmers in Latin America grew plants for food and medicine sustainably, working in concert with the environment and cultivating strains of plants that had been evolved to suit the particular locale in which they were grown. They were using a technique that could come to be called “agroecology.” This traditional approach would, in th…
Poetry
Moon Writing by Catherine Graham and Robert Frede Kenter
Moon Writing is an unusual collaboration featuring Catherine Graham’s poetry and Robert Frede Kenter’s photographs. This is not a traditional ekphrastic effort in which the poems respond directly to the art, or vice versa. Kenter explains the genesis of their book in an opening Statement: “This project emerged out of a collaboration between myself and C…
Contributor News
Seaboard Review contributor Lisa Timpf, along with fellow SF Canada members Paula Johanson and Colleen Anderson, will be co-editing an anthology of speculative fiction and poetry related to sports. With the working title Slapshots in Space and Magical Marathons, the anthology, to be published by Tyche Books, will accept submissions from July 1 to August 31 2026. For those who want to get a start on their submissions, guidelines are now available on Tyche Books’ site, https://tychebooks.com/submissions/.
