Kelsey Review, Mercer County Community College’s (MCCC’s) literary journal that went to a fully online quarterly format this fall has just posted its Winter 2016 issue. The latest issue features art, poetry, and prose from contributors who live or work in Mercer County.

This issue features photography by Adnan Shamsi, fiction by Arlene Feldman, Tim Waldron, Nancy Demme, and Katie Zurich, poetry by Wanda Praisner, Beverly Mach Geller, Lavinia Kumar, and Vida Chu, and a nonfiction piece  by Babette Levin.

Says MCCC English faculty member and Kelsey editor Jacky Vogtman, “We share these pieces of prose and poetry crafted by talented Mercer County-area artists to bide you through the winter months ahead. Read. Re-read. Share with friends and family. Take this healthy dose of literature to cure you of all life’s ailments.”

The current issue, as well as past issues of Kelsey Review, is available at www.mccc.edu/kelseyreview. Additional issues for the 2016-17 academic year will be released in March and June.)

Submissions for next year will be accepted January 1 through May 31 in the following categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, photography, and reviews. For more information, visit the website above.

Funding for Kelsey Review has been made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment of the Arts.