The Seaboard Review of Books: Thursday Edition
April 23, 2026
In this issue:
Variations on a Dream by Angélique Lalonde (Fiction)
Northern Bull by Michelle Swallow (Fiction)
Bad Advice by Susan Carpenter
Excerpt: Northern Girls by Michele Willms (Non-Fiction)
Unequivocal Magic by Alex Bertram
“Look at That Sky Again:” In Dialogue with John Wall Barger (Interview)
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James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief
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Fiction
Call For Submissions
The Seaboard Review of Books is launching a monthly fiction department, and we’re looking for submissions from new, emerging, and established writers from around the world. All genres are welcome, so long as the stories are driven by character, theme, and language—which you can interpret however you like. We’re …
Non-Fiction
Excerpt: Northern Girls by Michele Willms
Editor’s Note: “We recently posted Dawn Macdonald’s review of Northern Girls: True Stories by Michelle Willms (see below), and I thought an excerpt from this book, along with Michelle’s intro, would be a good way to stir interest in this fascinating collection of linked true stories.”
Interview
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