Welcome to our Winter/Spring 2026 issue of Wordpeace, issue 11.1
This issue’s theme is Home/Place/Displacement. We are excited to be in 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 “House with Clouds” by Christopher Woods
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SUBMIT TO WORDPEACE!
Submissions for the 2026 Summer/Fall issue are OPEN February 1 through April 1, 2026. The theme for the next issue is Hope and Possibility. How do you perceive the idea of “hope” or “possibility”(or the lack thereof) 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 to these themes. 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:

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. Those freedoms are currently being stripped away from us, especially 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 Home, Place and Displacement in today’s world. 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

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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). Lee Desrosiers (managing editor), 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