Excited to announce that we're accepting submissions for the 2023-2024 season! If you're an emerging writer in Canada and haven't published a full-length book, submit by October 15th to be considered to read!
https://t.co/3oLwGybtcW
Mackenzie Wiebe is a queer poet, writer, and editor from Edmonton, Alberta as well as an incoming MFA candidate at the University of Guelph.
Join us for an enchanting night on Monday, May 9 at 7 pm ET as Mackenzie reads with us 🤩
We are launching the Third Issue of Held Magazine online on Monday, February 7 by 8pm. The event link can be accessed below and there'll be ASL interpretation.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link - https://t.co/bIVfSc8vOS
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Two weeks just didn't seem like ample time to accommodate the wealth of talent pouring in since submissions opened.
We are now extending our submission deadline to the 29th of October!
For more information on submission guidelines, please visit https://t.co/kDAUaKIM3K
We are now accepting submissions to Issue 3 of Held Magazine!
Submissions are accepted from October 1st - October 15.
For more information on submission guidelines, please click the attached link. We look forward to reading your phenomenal contributions!
https://t.co/ziz0WLtzO7
"Replace the cops with mental health workers!" is a really well-intentioned statement, but the current mental health system is also a white-dominated, violent, coercive, and unaccountable structure that disproportionately harms people of colour.
Reading Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard (highly recommend) and I haven't been able to get this quote off my mind for weeks:
"How successful were we in convincing our children that it doesn't matter that their comfort was wrested and withheld from other children?"