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Original cover "The Diner" by Mia Hollenback

Limited cover "Cracked but Not Broken" by Sultonah Scott

Volume one

fall 2018

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• 50 contributors of diverse backgrounds
• 42 writers & 8 artists
• 65 stories
• ​Made with hope, sweat, and coffee (lots of it)

Preview Volume 1

Genres

• visual arts
• experimental
• creative non-fiction

• poetry
• flash fiction
• micro-fiction
• non-fiction

• fiction
• literary criticism
• personal/narrative essay

Topics explored

​Volume one did not center around one theme, but evolved from many. Without hard limits on submissions, writers and artists created and the result organically reflected the times of its publication.

• love
• family
• identity
• sexuality
• mental health
  

• loss
• abuse
• politics
• resistance
• self-acceptance