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The issue presents award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and original cover and internal artwork, with contest results and acknowledgments for editors, judges, and contributors.","Edisto River Review  \n2021  \nEDISTO RIVER REVIEW 2021  \nClaflin University  \nOrangeburg, South Carolina  \nVolume VII  \nEditor:  \nNick Robinson  \nAssociate Prose Editor:  \nDennis Bormann  \nAssociate Poetry Editors:  \nSharon Gile and Charity A. Adama  \nCover Design:  \nWayne C. White  \nCover Illustration:  \nWayne C. White  \nEdisto River Review is a publication of the Department of English at Claflin University. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the university or editors. Copyright 2021 by Claflin University. Rights revert to authors upon publication.  \nPrinted in the United States by Williamson Printing  \nFROM THE EDITOR  \nI open this note with a reiteration of the critical importance of our 2021 Edisto River Review theme: George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. With that, I also want to look forward to the theme of our 2022 edition, Living with Covid, by asking a question: what does it mean to be ‘away’? For some, being away means to be at rest. In these cases, being away translates to a time of peace and recreation that sorely needed idyll can bring: a relaxing with family or on a winter retreat on some sunny beach somewhere. But, for others—those quarantined from loved ones as the world struggles with a once-in-a-century pandemic, or those truly gone, no longer of our mother earth because of sickness or violence—to be away is a barrier, a hazard, a debilitating and even a deadly condition. As we come to grips with what we have suffered through this past year—whether through life-altering discrimination or The Pandemic—as we try to make sense of the fractured world we live in, many of us feel as if we are ‘away,’ in the most notional sense of the word—isolated, absent; hesitant and unclear. This kind of confused diffidence is a state of being with which we, as citizens of the world, are not comfortable. Humanity wants to know, to understand, to solve.  \nSome are aware that I am teacher by training. A core component of pedagogy is teaching our students to navigate ambiguity. Because in academia, in corporate America, heck, in our everyday lives, ambiguity is a persistent and draining condition. What Iteach is that, for the prepared, ambiguity also can bring opportunity for growth, leadership, excellence. The work in this, the seventh edition of the Edisto River Review, are manifestations of artistic excellence that explore what it is to be ‘away,’ in all the nuances of meaning that this word offers. This seventh edition—the George Floyd edition—is an invitation to travel with our Claflin student artists through states of isolation, confusion, absenteeism, and still emerge whole. Within this issue, you will find our favorite creative pieces, including submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Work, for example, from Tiana Wilder (the first-place winner of both the fiction and the poetry contests) and Faith Lomax (the nonfiction contest winner) .  \nWith an eye to align with our mission of one hundred percent student content, two years ago we added the art contest. And for the  \nsecond year in a row, the first-place art contest winner is Wayne C. White. His drawings adorn both the front and back covers. Also in this edition, for the first time, we have included with the internal art, the second-and third-place cover art submissions. We hope you enjoy viewing and reading these unique and original works as much as we have. Before I turn this virtual podium over to our next speakers, I would like to give a round of applause to our students who contributed to our 2021 Edisto River Review, and to those students who have or will be contributing to our 2022 Edisto River Review. Please give these student artists a huge round of applause. I begin my conclusion with thanking Drs. Sharon Gile and Charity Adama for serving as associate poetry editors. I extend a sincere thanks to Dr. Dennis Bormann for his work as associate prose editor. 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