Writing is an act of resistance
Welcome to Writers Resist, the December 2023 Issue
It's been a year that too often has left many of us without words—thankfully, not those who've made this issue possible. Their voices offer clarity, sorrow, hope, humor, and a reminder to embrace nature's beauty. [...]
Slowcookery
By Amy L. Bernstein “Because when it comes to truly explaining racial injustice in this country, the table should never be set quickly” – Nikole Hannah-Jones, "What is Owed," New York Times Magazine, 2020 [...]
The Whale
By Kerry Loughman never budged becalmed she was bleached by sun & beached on relentless rise of blue water liquid leeched from her eyes her orifices her great mouth agape her lungs did [...]
Two Poems by Linda Parsons
How a Woman Becomes Herself When the neighbor’s weed tree drapes over the power lines and shades her garden, she contemplates going out by moonlight to dump salt on the roots—but that could backfire and [...]
Disappearing Into the Flesh Market VII
By Mary Stebbins Taitt Artist's statement: This painting, part of a series, is a resistance statement against the misuse of girls, boys, women, and others by flesh markets of prostitution, child pornography, and sex trafficking. The [...]
Wildness Unafraid
By Tim Murphy What if trees could talk? No. Of course they do. What if we could hear them speak just beneath our feet? What if birds of all feathers who lift the sky with [...]