Berkeley publishing house Kelly’s Cove Press is pleased to announce a new semiannual literature and arts magazine, The Cove.

The Cove will showcase poetry, fiction, essays and visual arts by both up-and- coming and established artists and writers from across Northern California, with each issue focused around a specific, broad theme. The free, online magazine will be accessible to audiences worldwide at thecovemagazine.com beginning with the publication of its first issue, Fire, on April 20, 2018.

The massive wildfires that burned throughout Northern California in October 2017 affected, directly or indirectly, countless individuals across the region. The inaugural issue of The Cove features a range of responses to this event by a diverse group of artists and writers working in a variety of styles and mediums.

The Fire issue of The Cove will include among its contents:

“Sixteen Bay Area Artists Paint Fire,” a collection of fire-inspired paintings by Tami Sloan Tsark, Stephanie Thwaites, Spence Snyder, Natasha Sharpe, Keith Wilson, Kristen Garneau, Linda MacDonald, Margot Koch, Michael Kerbow, Jude Pittman, James Brzezinski, Greg Martin, Deborah Seidman and Bill Russell;

“Poets on Fire,” a series of responses in poetry to the October wildfires by Susan Griffin, Lisa Summers, Katherine Hastings, and Gwynn O’Gara;

“Squeak Carnwath’s Fire Art,” a showcase of fire-themed paintings and prints by the celebrated Oakland-based visual artist;

“Where’s Willoughby,” a new short story by North Bay writer Daniel Coshnear;

New poems by San Francisco poet and essayist Genine Lentine;

Old poems by Monte Rio poet and novelist Pat Nolan;

And four very short stories by San Francisco writer Olga Zilberbourg.