Welcome to our Summer/Fall 2026 issue of Wordpeace, issue 11.2!
This issue’s theme is Hope and Possibility.
We are excited to be in the second half of our 11th year of publication!

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

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Our cover artwork this issue is “Memories in Chroma” by Sean Hur.
Check out the full image here.

SUBMIT TO WORDPEACE!
Submissions for the 2027 winter/spring issue are OPEN August 1 through October 1, 2026. The theme for the next issue is The End of the World (as we know it). How do you perceive the idea of the end of the world, or worlds, or a journey, or whatever this prompt makes you want to write about? How does it relate to our individual and collective experiences? We are looking for poetry, short fiction, visual art, and essays that speak to this theme. Wordpeace publishes essays, artwork, stories and poems that speak to a general theme, although all social justice-related themes are welcome. Write us with questions at wordpeace.editors@gmail.com.

Letter from the Editor:

This is a hard time for so many of us in the United States right now. We are a land of immigrants, children and grandchildren of immigrants who left their homes for a chance to live in the freedom this country promised us. Many of those freedoms are currently being stripped away from us, especially for those among us whose histories are already marginalized by colonialism. Thank you all who are standing up for what is right.

This issue of Wordpeace is on the themes of Hope and Possibility. Here you will find poems, stories, essays and visual art that reflect on these concepts. 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 help our readers to think about the possibility of peace and positive change in the world. Thank you all for submitting your work and for reading this important issue!

Wishing you Peace,

Lee Desrosiers, Founding Editor/Publisher Wordpeace