As we move into our third issue, The Dolomite Review is celebrating all the wonderful writing we have published this year. You can view our first issue and explore our current issue. As we look toward our Fall edition, due out September 1, we promise more great short stories, poetry, and essays. In this issue, we are pleased to begin paying our Featured authors and to introduce art by Midwest photographers.

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As a first-year magazine, we are still finding our voice and cultivating our community. We remain a solidly Midwestern literary magazine, rooted in the landscapes, histories, and voices of this place. But as submissions arrive from beyond our immediate radius, our understanding of the Midwest continues to expand. We are discovering that the Midwest is not simply a place on a map. It includes those who once lived here and carried it with them, those who have traveled through and left with stories, our Canadian neighbors, and first-generation Americans whose experiences continue to shape and redefine what the Midwestern voice can be.

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As summer begins to wind down, we cannot shake the feeling of schoolchildren preparing for a new year. We are sharpening our pencils and choosing our subjects. We are trying new styles, filling fresh pages, and growing into bigger shoes. There is a sense of possibility in beginning again, of not quite knowing what the year will bring but being eager to find out.

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We hope you will continue with us on this literary journey.

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Visit our website, engage with us on Facebook, and spread the word about our little magazine. Most of all, we love hearing from our readers. Tell us about the work that has stayed with you, the stories that have surprised you, and the voices you hope to encounter in the pages to come.

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We hope you enjoy the rest of the summer. And as the seasons turn, we hope you will join us in welcoming another year of stories, poems, essays, and images from the ever-expanding Midwest.