Welcome to our Winter/Spring 2024 issue of Wordpeace!
This issue’s theme is Queer Joy!

WORDPEACE is a multi-genre online journal dedicated to peace and social justice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS (click for link)

Our cover photo this issue is “Queer” by Jim Ross on January 21, 2017
Check out the full image HERE.

SUBMIT TO WORDPEACE!
We publish semi-annually, with submissions open in February/March (for August/September publication) and August/September (for February/March publication). 
Next issue’s theme is “War & Peace” Here is the link to submit:

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A Note from Founding Editor, Lee Desrosiers:

Monica Hand and I founded WORDPEACE in the hope of making a difference, despite having to live our lives, care for our families, and continue writing and publishing. Sadly, Monica isn’t with us anymore to see the continuation of this vision, and I miss my friend. Every issue of this journal/project will be dedicated to her.  We are so blessed to have Monica Barron (non-fiction), Lisa C. Taylor (fiction and poetry). Lee Desrosiers (poetry) and Russell Taylor (visual art) choosing work for the journal. We all want to stand up to indifference by publishing work that inspires people to think, in the hope that it will spur some to activism, and hopefully will help pave the way to kindness, sensibility, peace and social justice.

Lee Desrosiers
Founding/Managing Editor & Publisher, WORDPEACE.CO

This and subsequent issues are dedicated to my beloved friend, co-founder of WORDPEACE and poetry editor, Monica Hand who passed on December 16, 2016 after a short illness. She was a PhD student at the University of Missouri and a professor at Stephens College, and has been a force for poetry through her enthusiasm, her scholarship and through her book, me and Nina which won the Alice James Award in 2012. Monica’s powerful second collection, DiVida: Poems was published posthumously in 2018 by Alice James Books.

Lori Desrosiers