Welcome to the Fall 2009 issue and also to our new home: www.shipwrightsreview.com. 

If you've had trouble accessing the site during the last few months, then you'll understand why we've made the move to a new web host. This new site should afford us greater freedom and stability in publishing the magazine in as aesthetically pleasing a form as we can. Also, we are pleased to provide PDFs of each piece in the journal now, in case reading online is not your thing. You can find this link at the end of each piece. Since it is a new platform we are, of course, still swiping away at a number of pesky digital bugs. Feel free to point these out if you notice them. We'd also love to hear your suggestions for ways to improve the site, as well as the review itself. 

The Autumn 2009 issue features more homegrown talent than we've ever published in the past. It is thus a chance for Malmö University to strut its stuff a little. But while being slightly less geographically diverse in regard to the origins of the authors, this issue has plenty of diversity on offer in the form of subject matter and style. Even among our authors with ties to Sweden, there are several expatriates from the great beyond of de-centered English, in this case: Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Writers from Australia and the U.S. are also represented.

In this issue our fiction writers explore life in a Sardinian village, where the "scent of a Ford" brings comic mayhem; coming of age in a Swedish college town; marital ennui in the American heartland; and the question of whether there's life after a family tragedy. The poets do what poets have been doing for thousands of years: investigating love, death, and epiphany. More specifically, here, these investigations uncover unwanted children, waxing and waning love, aging, and a Zen moment of crisis and contemplation. The literary nonfiction offering in this issue is small, but what we do have is powerful: a memoir that wrestles with lost romanticism and the chimera of utopian friendship.

We hope you'll enjoy the issue! And we hope, if you're a writer yourself, that you'll send in some of your own work in the future.

If you'd like to be part of our international online community, please feel free to join the open Facebook group,  Creative Writing Malmö. There you'll be able to communicate with some of the current Shipwrights authors and also with the rank and file of our expanding writing community.

The Editors