Anti-Heroin Chic: Loss & Grief Issue
Losing someone, or something, that cannot ever, no matter how much we want them to, be gotten back, a parent/grandparent, a child, a spouse, a friend, one's innocence, hometown, these tragedies are lifelong companions for us to unpack and to remember. To mourn, and in time, one hopes, transform, or simply to carry around with us as sacred visitor/remainder to our lives.
This is what we are looking for in our special winter issue on loss and grief. Perhaps you have had to assist a loved one who was terminally ill in their end of life care. Perhaps you lost a child or a parent way too early in the journey, or a childhood friend. Or perhaps your childhood home was lost in a house fire. Or perhaps, as I recently had found upon returning to the trailer park where I grew up in North Carolina, that the whole thing was just gone, cleared out for a development of upper middle class homes; unrecognizable. There is a grief in knowing that the poor have no place to return to that can be called home.
Accepting poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, fiction, and art work.
Deadline – Oct. 30, 2019.