Whitefish Review now accepting submissions

What do you hunger for? What feeds your hunger? What satiates your hunger?

Is it hunger for home?

A hunger for love?

For freedom?

For life?

With a creative hunger burning, Whitefish Review has announced that it is accepting art, literature and photography submissions for its 14th issue — The Hunger Issue — to be published Dec. 14.

"We've been hungry from the start of this project seven years ago," said Brian Schott, founding editor. "With the help of my growing team, we continue to push onward in search of writers, artists and photographers whose art burns in a growling belly."

Matt Holloway will lead this creative exploration as the lead editor for the new issue. Artist Michael Haykin has been tapped as the first art and photography guest editor.

To kick off the publication, author Tim Cahill will do a reading in Whitefish to support the launch, as well as be featured in an interview.

Submissions for issue 14 will be accepted through Oct. 15 at the website, www.whitefishreview.org, where full guidelines are available.

"I know many types of hunger beyond my minute scrapes with the physical," said Holloway, who has served as the Whitefish Review fiction editor for the past four years. "In my heart churns a hunger for words, to write well, a little better every day.

“Keeping me sane is a hunger for wildness and wilderness, and the freedom of the mountains. Stark and inevitable, the hunger for my kids to be a part of a near-distant world with clean air, water and food, one that they love and call home, is consuming. I hunger for much, I know."

Holloway lives with his wife, daughter and son in Columbia Falls and writes when he's not clawing around in the wilderness. His work has appeared in Montana Magazine, Big Sky Journal, Montana Headwall, Montana Naturalist, “A Natural History of Now: Reports from the Edge of Nature” and the inaugural issue of Whitefish Review.

Holloway graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop in 2012.

Based in Boulder, Haykin’s work has been shown in places such as the Holter Museum of Fine Art in Helena; Helander Gallery in Palm Beach, Calif.; the Works Gallery in Southampton, N.Y.; the Limbo Gallery in New York City; and Jest Gallery in Whitefish.

"My hunger for exploration, for discovery, has me wade into the current and out of my depth," Haykin said. "This hunger feeds only upon itself and fuels the very fire that it has itself kindled — this small, intensely bright and inextinguishable light of creation. As an artist, what satisfies me for a bit is capturing the mystery without subduing it."

Cahill is a Livingston-based writer who was a founding editor of Outside magazine, an early editor of Rolling Stone, has written for National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, and Esquire, and has published nine books. He was the co-writer of three IMAX films, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards.

Whitefish Review is a nationally acclaimed, nonprofit journal publishing the distinctive literature, art and photography of mountain culture. Featuring established and emerging authors and artists, the journal has published interviews and the original work of distinguished authors such as Rick Bass, Tom Brokaw, David James Duncan, Pete Fromm, Pam Houston, John Irving, William Kittredge, Thomas McGuane, Doug Peacock, Jack Turner and Terry Tempest Williams, while also discovering new promising writers.

In addition to a diverse mix of stories, interviews and conversations, a 16-page color art and photography section is also featured.

As a recognized 501(c)3 tax-exempt corporation created for the public good, the journal is supported by generous donations, grants and subscriptions.