Tributaries
A guest-edited feature
Rolling, burbling, churning along, tributaries lead us to the river. These winding origins are sometimes small, but often powerful. Tributaries refresh us, urge us forward, guide us through the trees. The Fourth River’s weekly online publication, Tributaries, showcases the brief and the inspiring, that which sustains us and takes us through unexpected courses. Each week we will feature one short piece on our website.
Spring 2021 Theme: Heritage Lands
Even the soil has a story, a memory, a heritage—send us work that imagines, unravels, and respools heritage lands.
The land has blood in it—a history and practice of settler colonialism saturates the earth. Send us work that explores what the land has witnessed, in all its transitions. Where does wonder root? How does wonder root and rupture?
How do land, identity, and family intersect?
There is no fee to submit to Tributaries, so please send your best work! Further guidelines on our Submittable site.
2021 Tributaries Editor
Cedric Rudolph moved to Pittsburgh, PA, in 2016. After two years at Chatham University, he earned his MFA in Poetry. He is currently in his third year of teaching fiction and poetry to middle and high school writers at the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts school (CAPA). He is one of the founding editors for Beautiful Cadaver, which publishes social justice-themed anthologies and stages theatrical performances. His poems are published in Coal Hill Review, Christianity and Literature Journal, The Laurel Review, and the Santa Fe Literary Review.
2018 Tributaries eDITOR
Geeta Kothari is the nonfiction editor of the Kenyon Review. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and journals, including New England Review, Massachusetts Review, and others. Her essay “If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?” is widely taught in universities and has been reprinted in several anthologies, including in Best American Essays. She is the editor of ‘Did My Mama Like to Dance?’ and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters and recently published a short story collection, I Brake for Moose and Other Stories.