Welcome to the twelfth issue of Waccamaw, an online literary journal published at Coastal Carolina University. This issue was launched October 31, 2013.

I want to thank Joe Bueter, Caroline Cahill, and Hastings Hensel for their assistance in selecting the poetry for this issue, as well as Jason Bordt for the work he did assisting fiction editor Jason Ockert. I’d also like to welcome to the Waccamaw masthead Cara Blue Adams, who joined the Coastal Carolina University Department of English in August. Thank you, Cara, for your help with our fiction and nonfiction submissions for this issue.

As the new year approaches, change will be coming to the journal. Look for a redesigned Waccamaw in 2014, and check back here for updates about future submission periods and issue launch dates.

Thank you for reading. Welcome to the river.