Breakwater Review: a journal of the arts

About:

Breakwater Review is an online arts journal committed to publishing poetry and prose by established and emerging writers. We're looking for sincere, well-crafted work that takes us somewhere unexpected and sticks with us. While we may explore "themed" issues in the future, we don't limit either the subject matter or type of work of our contributors.
Breakwater Review is published in two issues per year: January and June. Find out more about our reading periods by viewing our Submissions page. In subsequent issues, we're adding criticism, interviews, as well visual and multimedia art.
Our team of staff and volunteers is drawn from UMB students. The journal is supported, but not governed by, the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Website:

http://www.breakwaterreview.com/index.php

Review:

To start with this, I will just give a terse and eulogizing comment: That's a good online literary magazine!

Though Breakwater Review is marginally inchoate, I think that their website is clearly compartmentalized into different chapters, just like what you would do when sorting out a raft of profiles, and of course advocated by a few contributors. This is the first time I perceived that a literary magazine has been created with the help of the University of Massachusetts, Boston staff under the aegis of Creative Writing MFA program.

But what is lacking, for me to observe the touchstones or yardsticks of an established online literary magazine, is that Breakwater Review has only a meagre amount of contributors since the first two issues published, albeit being published twice a year. Apparently, no one knows about the existence of Breakwater Review. Why there is solely a few contributors I do not know much. But I do know that 10,000 Tons of Black Ink, the magazine we had reviewed before, superseded Breakwater Review.

Well, don't feel disillusioned, Breakwater Review! Though there is hardly any active contributors, the poetry published on their website is excellent and flawless. However, the prose, admittedly, is not really that decent for a university. They are simple, readable, not pompous and verbose, but they lack of literary quality, thereby they are not of an established writer's work. Most of the prose might be written by new writers. But, I reiterate, there must be high quality works to be published under a university's name.

Breakwater Review accepts many literature genres including criticism. Of course, you must capture their attention through your work. Your work must be crafted and moving.

I hope that Breakwater Review would be emerging out of the haste it is now embroiled in, and be watered, like a plant, with many more writers' works. Keep on going!