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Mission

Conceived in 2022 at River Pretty Writers Retreat in the Missouri Ozarks, USA, Skipjack Review is named after the phenomenon of skipjack herring chasing lights on the rivers at night. In the fall, local fishermen mount enormous floodlights on the front of their boats and trade fishing poles for fourteen-foot spears. The fishermen are after other fare entirely, but, fascinated, schools of skipjack hurl themselves at those artificial suns to the point of jumping in and over boats.

Skipjack Review aims to highlight the Midwest, but our scope is global. We are environmental advocates who wish to start a conversation the world keeps putting off having—and would keep putting off until it’s too late. Meanwhile, we all go on dreaming of escaping from this fast-paced, single-serving maze of days that end in “Why?” Isn’t there a better way? Maybe we all just need to slow. down. Let’s get out of our heads for a minute. Take a breath. Make a change!