So What Is Web del Sol?

Difficult to explain, unless first conceived in terms of goal and organization. WDS is a collaboration on the part of scores of dedicated, volunteer editors, writers, poets, artists, and staff whose job it is to acquire and frame the finest contemporary literary art and culture available in America, and abroad, and to array it in such a manner that it speaks for itself. The purpose of WDS is therefore multi-fold. WDS exists to:

• Promote, fund, and support the writing, publishing, and reading of contemporary literature in electronic media.
• Support all forms of literary writing as well as education in the contemporary literary arts at the high school level through its Word Works Network program.
• Explore, promote, and create new forms of artistic and literary expression in new media, hypertext, film, photography, and the literary arts, and to build an electronic community and nexus which fosters collaboration between these forms.
• Promote college level writing programs and showcase the work of their best students.
• Promote colloboration between the independent film community and the literary arts community.
• Portal the best in cultural essay, literary art and criticism.