Welcome to Writers Resist Fall 2026
This issue was hard to build. Hard, because the works herein are such powerful representations of the brutal conflicts through which we are slogging, seemingly ever increasing. Still, such vivid reminders are sometimes gifts.
These works reflect 27 saviors distributing words as lifesavers.
From our own Debbie Hall’s conflicted photograph, “Found Art,” to the many pieces demanding trans justice to the exultation of calls to action, they lend hope. Hope, rage, love, humor. We need them all to sustain the resistance. And, perhaps, we might receive some resolution when U.S. voters cast their values on 03 November.
In the meantime, as the image above demands, borrowed from Chelsie Zuccollo’s excellent call to action in “Smash, Build, Rise,” we must—and we will continue to—RISE UP.
On Saturday 14 November at 5:00 pm PACIFIC, we will host this issue’s virtual reading, Writers Resist Reads, at which we envision a bit of celebrating. Please email us at writersresist@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
And so, we welcome you to our hard and powerful Writers Resist Fall 2026. Please read and share your thoughts with these brilliant resisters.
Found Art by Debbie Hall
Two Poems by Marcy Rae Henry
Cost of Living by Nana T. Baffour-Awuah
Testifying with My Daughter Against Missouri SB597 by David Tager
After Roe Was Repealed by Jennifer Karp
Cherry Blossoms by Beck O’Leary
EXPO Marker by Jennifer Elise Wang
Girl (an erasure) by Elizabeth Mercurio
My Rape Wasn’t a Choice by Alberto Lau-Chang
Lemonading by Victoria Melekian
Letter to Self by Joycelyn Zhang
Monarch by Deanna Altomara
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On Viewing the Porn Trading Cards Catalogue (1925–2025) by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
If Only There Were No Trans Kids by Mitch Roshannon
Silence by Isla Laust
Three Poems by Tushar Sen
Coincidence by Minnie Bartlett
Two Poems by Mia Leonin
The Shirt by Elizabeth B. Morse
Smash, Build, Rise by Chelsie Zuccollo
Aunt Annie’s Recipe for the Resistance by Jane Frances Gilles
“There Will Be Casualties” by Ashley Mace Havird
Static Between the Folding Tables by Fendy S. Tulodo
To my father, whose mother tongue is a village dialect by Anonymous
The Most Radical Protest Right Now Is Handmade by Amanda Jackson
Two Poems by Susanna Lang
A Note from Writers Resist
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