WACISSA PRESS

The Panacea Review is the literary magazine of Wacissa Press, which will publish book-length volumes. The aim of the press is to publish less commercially viable works that exist on the outer edges of what constitutes a book: the long and the short. A home for sprawling works that may be too long to easily place elsewhere, and for shorter projects that might otherwise never be published. Queries to Wacissa Press may be sent to wacissapress@gmail.com.

Wacissa Press is named for one of Florida’s most unspoiled rivers, the Wacissa, a 45-minute drive from Panacea. A tributary of the Aucilla River, which is partially subterranean, the Wacissa represents multiple scales: at once a great preserved wilderness, and on the other hand, home to many quiet, crystal-clear springs only a few meters wide that feed it. While the original meaning of Wacissa is lost, there is no great mystery in naming a press, or anything, after a beautiful river. We aim to publish works that, like the Wacissa River, draw strength, beauty, and endurance from being out-of-the-way.