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Here is the table of contents for our new “Empowered” issue, our thirteenth, which debuted September 1st. The vibrant surrealist cover is “Shrine” by Joan Burger Siem. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Mary Marie Fries Johnson.
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 is dedicated to Mary Marie Fries Johnson, the mother of Katherine McDaniel, who died July 25th at the age of 87.
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
You can review our submission guidelines here. Submissions are now open for “Intersections,” our fourteenth issue.
Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung that refers to “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.” This makes our focus eclectic, but we do have subjects that we favor:
The arts and creativity, the intersection of art and science, nature, social justice (pro feminism, pro GLBTQIA, pro Black Lives Matter and support for any opportunity to promote equality and respect across the lines of gender, ethnicity, culture, religion and economic status), mythology and storytelling, imagination and fantasy, dreams and their imagery, and personal and collaborative expression.