The mission of Watershed Review is to create a multifaceted gathering of voices by publishing literature and visual art that captures crucial narratives and images of our current cultural moment. The Fall 2025 issue available to read open access online includes fiction by Heather Bell Adams, David Martin Anderson, Robert P. Kaye, Eliza Marley, Evan Lawrence Ringle; nonfiction by Erin Binney, Laura Mullen, Stephanie Provenzale-Furino, Angela Townsend; poetry by Samia Ahmed, Erik Armstrong, ari b. cofer, Lila J. Cutter, James Ducat, Heather D. Frankland, Olivia Jacobson, Kate Kearns, Cecil Morris, Sam Olson, Rachel Pearsall, Sarah Pross, Claire Scott, Linda Serrato, SM Stubbs, Farah Taha, Jeanine Walker, Arianna Xu; and art by Roger Camp, Chloe Foor, Jacqueline Rose, and Bill Wolak.

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Watershed Review is a biannual online publication from the Literary Editing and Publishing (LEAP) certificate program at California State University, Chico, providing professional training for writers, artists, and editors. The result is a beautiful, easily accessible, online journal, the most recent edition of which features Fiction by Nathan Greene, Anastasia Jill, Kameron Ray Morton, Mikayla Randolph, Daniel Webre; Nonfiction by Jordan Charlton, Leah Francesca Christianson, Alaina Scarano, Renee Soasey, Angela Youngblood; Poetry by Abdulmueed Balogun, Jennifer Bullis, Lauren Hyunseo Cho, Dennis Cummings, Javan Howard, Courtney Ludwick, Daniel Edward Moore, L.I. Henley & Laura Maher, Annie Przypyszny, Evy Shen, Ashley Somwaru, Jeddie Sophronius, Nancy White; and Art by Russ Allison Loar, Mario Loprete, Christina Rosche.