The Whirlwind Review

exploring the connections between writing and spirituality

Issue 1 Autumn 2011

Jill Jepson

Writing as a Sacred Path
A Practical Guide to Writing with Passion and Purpose


To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. — Anne Rice

Editor's Introduction Creative Nonfiction - Writing in post-Katrina New Orleans, growing up on a Sufi commune, and more Poetry Contributors' Biographies About The Whirlwind Review / Submission Guidelines Poetry Carol Folsom Not Mine to Say M. S. Rooney Not the Sound Beth Paulson Word Catcher Labyrinth Carol Ellis Only a Few Words Away from Nothing Regina Brault The Art of Camouflage Bradley Earle Hoge Medicine Wheel Cristina T. Lopez-O'Keeffe The New Border Lyn Lifshin Writing Conference Brochure Peter Selover Untitled Donal Mahoney Apple Fritter and a Single Rose Gary D. Swaim Apologia Irene D. Hays Precept Upon Precept Jeff Morgan The Creative Act Kyle Laursen Cafe Coyote Paul Hostovsky Ars P.O. Vivek Sharma A Biography, Scripted by Astrologers Yaqoob Ghaznavi Driftwood Court Frank Cavano Take Not My Pen Nancy Gustafson A Poem or a Hair Shirt Ryan McLellan Nothing Sarah Rehfeldt On Language Sharon Carter Ars Poetica Sheryl L. Nelms Food for Thought Siham Karami The Storyteller Stephanie B. Shafran Birthing Phillip K. Arrington A Poetics for God Essays Tamara Mikell-Choudhury Red Ink: A Literacy Autobiography David Harris Ebenbach The Unknown Leland Thoburn Divine Intervention Lisa Nichols Hickman What a Wonderful Wor(l)d Jill Jepson What Writers Can Learn from Atheletes (On the Writing as a Sacred Path Blog)