Neshaminy Journal Releases 5-Year Anniversary Edition

DOYLESTOWN, PA — "Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal" has announced the publication of a special issue, "Neshaminy: The First Five Years," celebrating the best of Neshaminy since its inception in 2019.

The issue is available in a special hardcover limited edition with a cover featuring Mercer Museum as painted by Bucks County artist Alan Fetterman and contains more than 300 pages of fiction, poetry, history and art from 18 area creators.

“Neshaminy, a journal filled with so much art, is a piece of art in itself,” says Don Swaim, journal co-founder and executive editor. “It’s also part of a long history of art making including Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Parker and James Michener and organizations like the Bucks County Writers Workshop, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. I’m hopeful Neshaminy will continue a successful run long into the future.”

Highlights include:

• Revealing biographies of Bucks County legends Pearl S. Buck, Henry Chapman Mercer, Dorothy Parker, and Stephen Sondheim by Neshaminy contributors Constance Wrzesniewski, Tom Sparrow, Don Swaim, and Natalie Zellat Dyen
• Interviews with horror writer Chuck Wendig by Melissa D. Sullivan and Linda Salley, President and Executive Director of the African American Museum of Bucks County by William J. Donahue
• An intimate history of the Village Improvement Association and creation of Doylestown Hospital by Constance Wrzesniewski
• A biographic essay of Pennsylvania son John Updike, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Rabbit, Run by Don Swaim
• A narrative history of Operation ’64 by Lee Bigelow Davis and Melissa D. Sullivan
• A rarely published memoir by James A. Michener
• Original cartoons by illustrator Pat Achilles
• Poetry by Hayden Saunier, H.A. Callum and Matilda Bray
• Memoirs by Jennifer Lin, Daniel Dorian and Carl Reader
• History by J. Kurt Spence and Stu Abramson
• Fiction by William O’Toole and Bobby Cohen

The cover of "Neshaminy Journal - The First Five Years."

This special issue of "Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal" is a publication of the Bucks County Writers Workshop and can be obtained at local bookstores and online from Amazon.com. The Journal welcomes submissions. For more information click here.