From the desk of managing editor, Darcie Friesen Hossack:
With a mixture of gratitude and no small amount of team sorrow, we announce our final issue of WordCity Literary Journal.
As readers and contributors to our journal might imagine, an all-volunteer project like WordCity is an immense undertaking.
For my part, as managing editor, carrying the weight of our often devestating topics, along with the overall communications and the enormous job of layout, cannot be done indefinitely, and the time has come to wind things down.
Perhaps tellingly, our final issue will face matters of health and mental health.
As ever, we will approach this topic broadly, allowing writers to take the subject as they will. We invite works that touch on and dive into personal and world events, into mental wellness and illness, into physical health and illness and the intersectionality of all of the above and anything and everything we have and haven’t considered.
We invite matters of LGBTQ2+ health, mental health, bodily autonomy and solidarity. And we ask only that no matter how anyone approaches any entry point, that respect is considered and given, above all.
We thank each and every reader and writer, poet, artist, supporter, champion and everyone who has made a small donation to help with operational costs to pay for the cost of this keeping this website alive. We hope that this work has inspired, helped and offered hope where needed, and that others might pick up where we leave off.
The final issue will be released in September 2024 to allow for my own writing and judging deadlines coming up this spring and summer. Our deadline will be July 31st 2024. Please visit out guidelines (in this website’s header) for email addresses and other details.
With so much gratitude,
Darcie Friesen Hossack and
the entire team at WordCity Literary Journal
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