2023 Issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review is Here!

Posted: August 30, 2023/Under: News/By: Kate McCahill

2023 Issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review is Here!

This year’s issue, themed “Myth: Invention, Legend, and Lore,” showcases writing and art from around the world—all of it somehow evoking the mythical. Kate McCahill, the magazine’s editor in chief, writes of the selection process: “Myths took on every shape imaginable, and our editorial team pored over each one, searching for the interpretations of legend and lore to fill the pages that you, reader, now hold in your hands.”

The 2023 issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review features fiction by Radha Opubor and Jesus Sierra, essays by Madari Pendas and Rebecca Vincent, poetry by Richard Parisio and Ajike Kendrick Asgun, and art by Ash Haglund and Pi Luna—to name a few. The cover image, “Untethered :: At the Gate,” was created by by Rebecca Lee Kunz of Santa Fe’s Tree of Life Studio.

Santa Feans can pick up their copies of the Review at any Santa Fe Public Library branch – while supplies last! Copies are also available at the SFCC library.

About Kate

Starting in December 2010, I travelled from Guatemala to Patagonia, making the trip mostly overland, by bus. I'm grateful for my funding provided by Wellesley College's Mary Elvira Stevens Traveling Fellowship, and am indebted to Doug Glover, who assigned me Paul Theroux's book, THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS, and thus inspired this project. I traced Theroux's footprints through Central and South America, learning Spanish, teaching English, and writing my book, PATAGONIAN ROAD.

Here's what I learned along the way: Don't listen to those who try to talk you out of your dreams. Focus on figuring out how to get to where you want to go, and then making it happen. All is possible, as they tell you in India. Drop me a line if you've got ideas, suggestions, or questions. Happy reading!