"'The Sword from the Sea' by Blake Hutchins is a darkly poetic fantasy reminiscent of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea sequence that revolves around an orphan girl named Gull. Possessing magical abilities that some in her oceanfront village consider heretical, the child's life changes dramatically when a strange warrior washes ashore."
-from the Barnes & Noble review of Writers of the Future, Vol. XXII