Ludington Writers’ Publications
Ludington Writers runs a small, independent, not-for-profit press and releases two publications each fall:
Making Waves: A West Michigan Review, is open to submissions from the public. Click here to read our submission guidelines. Follow us on Twitter at @WavesReview. View our library on Amazon at under the Making Waves: A West Michigan Review series. Contact MakingWavesReview@gmail.com for more information.
Beach Combings features work by members of Ludington Writers. To become a member for the year, simply attend one of our Tuesday meetings or special workshops.
Driftwood was our first literary journal, created and curated by the founding member of Ludington Writers, George Dila. While this publication has been discontinued, past issues are available through Ludington Writers. Contact WestShoreWords@gmail.com for more information.
BEACH COMBINGS
We gather around a coffee table, sitting in well-worn chairs, to read what we’ve written. Mostly we laugh. Sometimes we are solemn. But we always offer our best advice regarding each other’s poems, prose, or graphics novels.
MAKING WAVES
We invited artists and writers to send us work that invoked the feeling of feral space, somewhere, we imagined, as untouched by cultural expectations. We had many submitters with a variety of interpretations on the theme, which is exactly what we had hoped for.
While we try to curb or hide the unfettered, the wild remains because it’s needed. Animals, a piece of land, a screaming toddler, or even the deepest part of ourselves—everything needs a place that is secret, sacred or transformative. The human mind harbors interior memories, some shameful and buried deep; others joyful and easily retrieved.
Feral spaces are a necessity for the beasts within us.
BEACH COMBINGS
We gather around a coffee table, sitting in well-worn chairs, to read what we’ve written. Mostly we laugh. Sometimes we are solemn. But we always offer our best advice regarding each other’s poems, prose, or graphics novels.
MAKING WAVES: DOORWAYS
Doorways symbolize both transition and barriers, allowing for movement while also restricting access. This motif became the central theme for the third issue of Making Waves.
For 2023 we wanted to highlight changes and explorations of understanding. In this issue, we pay tribute to resilience, adaptation, and the unfailing human spirit that transcends barriers in search of connection and understanding.
MAKING WAVES: RESISTANCE
Resistance to change is a recurring motif in life and inevitably writers and artists capture that friction. Like pieces of a broken mirror, each contributor reflects the anguish of our time and the need for reflection and renewal in the struggles of 2022.
