Mande

| A journal of art and writing for bipolar talent | | Editor: @OdenKate | Header image: Ralph Coburn, Untitled, 1963

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Mande Episode 4 is now live.

Stop in for the short and sweet, stay for the umami short fiction.

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Mande Episode 5 is live today. Stop by for some windows on bipolar.

https://t.co/nKIMYJmApb

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I haven’t decided on a visual theme for the next episode — contrasting colors? Windows and doors?

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Getting closer…

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For Mande Episode 4, I read through about 100 submissions and tried to respond with personal feedback. It’s delayed the release, but this is the way I’ll continue for as long as possible. It’s so much more interesting for me than just shucking out another form letter.

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I love this part: matching themed images to words.

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Wrapped the reading period for Episode 4 this morning.

Firebrand beauties coming your way.

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Reading gorgeous submissions over here. Episode 4 is going to be a banger.

Scars telling of thriving.

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Taking photographs of birch raiment for Mande’s next issue.

Beautiful, both new and old.

Episode 4 coming soon.

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Mande Episode 3 is live.

Plunder the riches of straddled brains.

I’m thrilled to offer up a selection of poetry, CNF, fiction, and art (including a short film) that explores the peaks and pauses of manic depression.

https://t.co/nKIMYJn8eJ

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Mande Episode 3 is on the horizon.

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X certainly doesn’t have our best interests in mind. I’m recalibrating and, as a start, setting up on Bluesky: Follow us there under the same handle.

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The theme of Episode 3 will be desert/ocean. Starting the layout now for February publication.

I’m always accepting submissions of art and writing.

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Ad out today

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A variation on the Mande logo, made for a call-for-submissions ad.

I’m supposed to be working, but Mande just keeps happening.

Please keep sending in art and writing for the next Episode. I pay!

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If you’re at all interested in mental illness and paying artists fair rates, please consider contributing to my journal, Mande.

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Looking into advertising and adding functionality to https://t.co/6gdJljID9D.

Mande is open for submissions from bipolar creatives and those who know them. It’s free to submit and contributors are paid from $50-$250.

Write and art on.

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Fiction from Naadeyah Haseeb @sothisisnaddy and Maudlin House. I feel this piece’s use of numbers to frame life.

https://t.co/N86DgzE9hx

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Hitting the streets

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Glass sculpture by bipolar artist Kazuki Takizawa: “Rhythmic Changes” (detail)

Takizawa is based in Los Angeles, California. Find him here and on Instagram @ktglassworks.

Mande is open to submissions of art and writing. Send us your most dynamite.