Dear Readers,
Welcome to our final issue of WordCity Literary Journal, the Mental Health Issue.
Fittingly, it’s not for lack of success, but for the sake of my own mental wellness, that I’m bringing our beloved journal to a close. And yes, I am seeing a therapist.
We began WordCity in the autumn of 2020, mid-pandemic, pre-George Floyd, before Russia brutally invaded Ukraine, before terrorist Hamas members swarmed over Israel’s border and murdered 1,200 people, before Israel’s horrific retaliation that has seen the loss of tens of thousands innocent lives and destruction of so many more. Before the grave humanitarian crisis in Sudan that barely makes the news in the West. Before the fall of Roe v. Wade in the United States.
It’s been a lot. And WordCity has rallied to each cause and so many others, in attempts to shine the light of poetry and prose into places and subjects that are dark.
In doing so, we’ve created a community of readers and writers. Friendships have resulted. Emerging authors have received their first publishing credits. Established writers have graced us with their work and their time. And we are grateful beyond the ability to put our own words to the page.
What, at first, was a pandemic project, is coming to a close as something people love enough to mourn. Love enough to revisit and reread. Love enough to tell us what WordCity has meant to them these four years.
And for that, we thank each and every one of you.
Sincerely,
Darcie Friesen Hossack
WordCityLit 
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