PENSACOLA, FLA. Seventy-eight writers, artists, and photographers will be featured in the upcoming issue of Emerald Coast Review, Vol. XXIII. Since 1989, the ECR has been published every two years, emphasizing its mission to showcase high-quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and contemporary, emerging, and experimental works alongside outstanding art, graphic design, and photography from creators across coastal Florida and Alabama.
This year’s volume will also include scripts from the winners of the Books By the Bay 2024 Short-Film Screenwriting Contest, along with companion works from Picture Me A Story, a collaboration between Wide Angle Photo Club and Emerald Coast Writers. The Emerald Coast Writers’ editorial team consisted of Diane Skelton, managing editor; Steve Biersdorf, poetry editor; Heather Mitchell, prose editor; Debra Stogner, visual arts editor; and Jessica Temple, marketing and communications.
The book, scheduled to launch on October 25th, features a vibrant mix of Gulf Coast creativity along with contributions from beyond the region, chosen from hundreds of submissions.
Contributors include Jessica Jones, Baldwin County, AL; Amy Hadley, Bay Minette, AL; Joe Cuhaj, Mike Turner, Fairhope, AL; Randolph Crew, Foley, AL; Justin Philips, Gulf Shores, AL; Kathleen Duthu, Janet Nodar, Mobile, AL; Karen Hydock, Mobile County, AL; Autry Clifton Dye, Leigh Anne Mabry, Cantonment; Tom Brinton, Crestview; David Schjott, Freeport; Terri Barlotta, Gail Barsh, Jessica Temple, Fort Walton Beach; Steve Biersdorf, Scott Finelli, Evelyn Fredman, Jacquelyn Roos, Diane Skelton, Gulf Breeze; Bobby J. Touchton, Milton; Bart Daughety, Kimberly Hutchinson, Claire Massey, Mikayla Satterlee, Lauren Whitley, Navarre; Lee Underwood Arndt, Benjamin Larrison, Alice H. Murray, Deborah R. Majors, J. Wren Supak, Niceville; Betty Hassler, R.A. Krueger, Pace; Pamela G. Holmes, Panama City; Vanessa Bragg, Lisa Mella Burridge, Todd Chandler Clark, Jr., Gina Cooke, Tonya Dalhaus, Ron Dowdy, Pensacola; Vee Dowdy, Christy J. Draper, Peter Dye, Stephanie Whibbs Gonzalez, Mary Gutierrez, Laurie Hansen, Terry Henry, Margaret Hildreth, Ron Hixson, Toni Hixson, Yvonne Lashmett, Vera Leon, Pensacola; Jane Gates Lies, Cori Lojo, Heather Mitchell, Karen McAferty Morris, Lisa Joy Newcomb, Leslie E Owen, Janet Reeves, Pensacola; Richard Smith, Pensacola; Sara Jeanine Smith, Pensacola; Debra Stogner, Pensacola; Carolyn Joyce Tokson, Mara Viksnins, Andrea Jones Walker, Stephen Wise, Lori Zavada, Pensacola; Emily Rose Proctor, Santa Rosa Beach; Ann Lewis, Seagrove Beach; Christina Larson, Robert Larson, Shalimar; M.R. Street, Tallahassee; John Gibson, Vernon; Patti Damm, Renate Reiner, Winston-Salem NC; Joanne Blakely, Anna, IL; Lisa Kamolnick, Blountville, TN, Eric St. Pierre, New Orleans, LA.
More than twenty writers will read from their works in the anthology at the October 25 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. book launch at Pensacola’s Clark Cultural Center.
Pamela Grace 