MAKING WAVES: Homer’s Oddities
Issue 5 | Fall 2025
In Homer’s Odyssey, we hear of men bragging of their adventures, their conquests, of being heroes and outsmarting adversaries, all the while leaving their women to make it on their own for decades, yet still holding them to a perverted kind of virtue. That tension between the heroic and the human is part of what drew us to the theme.
More than Homeric pastiches, we looked for pieces that took us on unexpected journeys and confronted us with the strange. This year's contributors accomplished that with style, showing us the human soul rendered raw and reshaped by adversity.
Cover art, “Tangled in the Odyssey,” by Zahra Zoghi.We encourage you to ask your local bookstore if they are able to order this issue for you. Copies will be made available at the Ludington Area Center for the Arts’ gift store, and Ludington’s bookstore, the Book Mark.VISUAL ART
AUDIO
Several members of Ludington Writers are visually impaired and their advocacy and input on how Ludington Writers, Making Waves, and our world as a whole could be more inclusive led us to seek to provide author-read audio of each of the pieces selected for this issue.
We are grateful to each author who participated in this endeavor.