Congratulations to the twenty-five artists selected for our upcoming “Empowered” issue! It was a timely theme with deep resonance and we were humbled and inspired by the immense response. Poetry and short play led the pack, but we had stellar submissions across the board. There is a greater variety in this group, in terms of genre and mood, than we have ever seen and we have been able to find a line of synchronicity leading from piece to piece that is quite satisfying. It’s a little longer, weighing in at approximately 130 pages (“Ritual” was 115). The issue will be dedicated to Mary Marie Fries Johnson, the mother of our editor, who died July 25th at the age of 87. The astonishing surrealist cover art is “Shrine” by Joan Burger Siem.
Here are the artists represented:
I. Jay Asher, Short Story, Florida, USA
Terry Barr, Essay, South Carolina, USA
Sara Collie, Poetry, England, United Kingdom
Mary Pacifico Curtis, Poetry, California, USA
Peter Dakutis, Short Play, Georgia, USA
Sergey Dobrynov, Visual Art, Lugansk, Ukraine
Stacie Eirich, Poetry, Louisiana, USA
Shani Eldar, Visual Art, Israel
Scott Ferry, Poetry, Washington, USA*
Jonathan Fletcher, Poetry, New York, USA
Allison Fradkin, Short Play, Illinois, USA
Diane Funston, Poetry, California, USA
Lori Lasseter Hamilton, Poetry, Alabama, USA
D.R. James, Poetry, Michigan, USA
Svetlana Olshanskaya, Visual Art, Lugansk, Ukraine
Misha Penton, Music Video, Texas, USA
Pan Piper, Poetry, Scotland, United Kingdom
Karen Poppy, Poetry, California, USA
D. Larissa Peters, Poetry, California, USA
Judith Pratt, Short Play, New York, USA*
Paula Rudnick, Poetry, California, USA
Joan Burger Siem, Visual Art, Texas, USA*
Bill Vernon, Short Story, Ohio, USA
Jonathan Yungkans, Poetry, California, USA
Jagoda Zwiernik, Digital Art and Sculpture, Scotland, United Kingdom
* winners of our “Empowered” contests
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