Welcome to our Summer/Fall 2025 issue of Wordpeace, issue 10.2
This issue’s theme is Community and Survival. We are in the second half of our 10th year of publication!

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to link)
Our cover artwork this issue is “At the Edge of the Waves” by Jane Yoon.
Check out the full image HERE

SUBMIT TO WORDPEACE!
Submissions for the 2026 winter/spring issue are OPEN August 1st throught October 1st, 2025. The theme for the next issue is Home/Place/Displacement. How do you perceive place and/or the concept of home in your writing? How does it relate to our individual and collective experiences? We are looking for poetry, short fiction, visual art, and essays that speak of immigration, displacement and diaspora, redefining home, connection and family. Wordpeace publishes essays, artwork, stories and poems that speak to a general theme, although all social justice-related themes are welcome. Write us at wordpeace.editors@gmail.com.

Letter from the Editor:

We are honored to present the “Community & Survival” issue of Wordpeace. In this issue you will find poems, stories, essays and visual art that reflect on how we perceive and reflect on our experience with community, and find a way to survive tribulation and develop compassion for others who struggle. We celebrate you, our authors, for your critical thinking and your powerful, moving work. We celebrate you, our readers, for delving into this journal. Wordpeace’s mission is to try to make a difference through literature, to lead our readers to think about the possibility of positive change in the world. Thank you all for submitting your work and for reading this important issue!

Lee Desrosiers, Founding Editor/Publisher Wordpeace

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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). Michael Favala Goldman (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