Fish River Canyon
by Erica Eastick
Australian-born Erica Eastick is an environmental engineer, traveller, and writer of no fixed genre. Her short creative efforts appear in a number of online and printed publications including Alimentum and Skipping Stones Magazine. She currently resides on the beautiful and historic island of Guam.
What fascinating, surprising things can you tell us about the origin, writing, revision of this piece? “Fish River Canyon” was extracted from the unpublished travel memoir, A Tent Called Simba, which came to life during 2012’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). So far, the full-length manuscript has provided a number of short travel stories for stand-alone publication, but in the future, I hope “Fish River Canyon” will appear alongside the other 60,000 words that recount the adventures of two misguided sisters roadtripping through Namibia.
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Submissions
Poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction/prose poetry submissions are now closed. The reading period for standard submissions opens again March 15, 2023. Submit here.
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