COLUMNS

Gaze
Irena Ioannou on how the act of changing perspective can create a better world

The Jury’s Jukebox
The Jury’s Jukebox aka Tim Clark presents songs for you to vote on on the theme of BELIEVE

The Book Doctor
Caroline Donahue on how believing you can finish a book is all you need to start

From the Inside
Ryan M. Moser on the unique and difficult challenges that change creates in prison

Head Above Water
Tim Clark on leaving behind Catholicism and his search for a deeper meaning in life

Rise
Aishwarya Vardhana on her feminist journey, Roe v. Wade and the fight to control women’s bodies

Let’s Do Luddism
Cory Massaro on technology as industralized farming and consumers as their product

Reflections on Parenting
Deborah Owen-Sohocki on how normalizing failure is a gift to both parent and child
5 YEARS OF THE WILD WORD
FICTION

Evie Groch
Evie Groch’s flash fiction story ‘The Scope of Horror’

Marcelo Medone
Marcelo Medone’s flash fiction story ‘Seeing is Believing’

Niles Reddick
Niles Reddick’s flash fiction story ‘Chill’

Sandra Arnold
Sandra Arnold’s flash fiction story ‘Midnight Blue’

Tim Love and Nicola Gifford Cowan
Tim Love and Nicola Gifford Cowan’s flash fiction story ‘Absolution’

Chris Moeller
An excerpt from Chris Moeller’s upcoming YA novel ‘Lost in the Nether Lands’
POETRY

Ann Malaspina
Ann Malaspina’s poem ‘Disbelievers on Holy Night’

David B. Prather
David B. Prather’s poems ‘Provenance’ and ‘Journal Entry: Those Who Stay Behind’

David Perez
David Perez’s poems ‘Someone’s always watching’, ‘She told me I would live forever’, and ‘The Year of the Leech’

George Freek
George Freek’s poem ‘An Apology (After Li Shangyin)’

Jackie Chou
Jackie Chou’s poem ‘Faith’

John Hicks
John Hicks’s poems ‘Getting Close to God’, ‘Soldier’s Prayer’, and ‘Trust Rust’

Richard L. Matta
Richard L. Matta’s poems ‘Bird of Paradise’, ‘Karma’, and ‘Dementia’

Sarah Carleton
Sarah Carleton’s poems ‘Woo!’ and ‘Grass, Pavilion’

Sharon Wright Mitchell
Sharon Wright Mitchell’s poems ‘Willow Witching’ and ‘When Glaciers Move’

Vinita Agrawal
Vinita Agrawal’s poem ‘Muvuca’
POETRY REVIEWS

Open Your Eyes Review
Mike Hembury’s review of the poetry anthology ‘Open Your Eyes’ edited by Vinita Agrawal

‘Grief Bacon’ review
Review of the poetry collection ‘Grief Bacon’ by CL Bledsoe
WHAT WE LOVE
Nina Hynes song ‘Looking For You’ from her new album ZAP! Buy here.
‘Growler Rising’ by Dee Mulrooney
Music online with Mick Hembury and Jenka Bühler
Yin Yoga in your sitting room with Erinbell Fanore
Rufus Coates & Jess Smith’s ‘Modern Day Cathedral’
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