Blooming spring, a kitchen cupboard and thinking outside the bar. Plus, how to love a broken girl and a bit of tandem bicycling. The newest issue of The Watershed Journal is full of all-new stories, poetry, photography and artwork from the western Pennsylvania Wilds and is available now on our website!

The Watershed Journal is your source for diverse, inspiring and challenging literary entertainment. In this issue, you’ll enjoy a wide variety of subject matter, style and tone. Featuring poet Girard Tourensol, photographer Kyle Yates and artist Abraham Darlington, the new Spring 2020 Edition contains 32 original written pieces paired with images meant to thoughtfully enhance the reading experience. We are quite proud of this new issue and can’t wait to share it with the world!

This is a highly inclusive magazine, dedicated to engaging and empowering storytellers from our neck of the woods. We pride ourselves in how many submitters we include, rather than how many are excluded from the final product. Our goal is to be an authentic and honest representation of the voices and perspectives in our community.

This may be a time of social distancing, but we can rely on the power of storytelling to connect us near and far. We are debuting this issue for the first time for free on our website (in its entirety!). Readers can start enjoying fresh works today directly on our home page. You can search by author or category or simply enjoy the pieces in order that you see them. We invite readers to interact with the magazine by sharing their favorite pieces and leaving comments.

As well as the brand-new magazine, you can also check out resources and insight on our blog, interviews with submitters in our podcast, information on the local literary scene with our events calendar and more.