Call for Submissions (Poetry & Personal Essays on Mental Health)
Is your writing raw and vulnerable? Write for “Put It To Rest”
Do you have a story to tell that you need to put to rest?
Put It To Rest is a new publication accepting First-Person Stories OR Poetry about personal life experiences that have weighed on your mental health which you wish to explore through writing as a therapeutic endeavor.
House your work here to Put It To Rest.
Poetry
Put It To Rest is looking for poetry that is moving, vulnerable, and “raw.”
Poems can tell a story or be more experimental and fragmented to form an impression.
The subject matter must pertain to mental health in some way.
The first poem published in Put It To Rest, I Call This Trauma by the editor, Lindsay Soberano-Wilson (originally published in FreshVoices22 by the Candian League of Poets), stands as a testament to the benefit of accepting, sitting with, moving through, eventually talking about, and then sharing trauma through art as a form of healing. I think that housing this poem in my own start-up publication holds a lot of meaning. It is my intention that this poem reflects what #PutItToRest will come to represent, as readers and writers will choose to share their personal journeys of healing here to then put them to rest.
Personal Essays
Put It To Rest is looking for personal essays that explore personal challenges and journeys. Essays should seek to explore the topic but not necessarily offer a solution but accept that life is messy. We would rather have your story be raw, honest, and vulnerable than push towards a lesson.
The lesson here at Put It To Rest is in using writing as a means of self-empowerment to use writing as a therapeutic endeavor.
Sometimes we just need to tell a story for the sake of letting it out and then be able to put it to rest.
That is why essays can tell a story from beginning to end, or be more experimental, fragmented, and offer an impression.
Submission Guidelines
Please familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines. As you can see we are looking for both writers and readers. In fact, we wish to turn a few readers into writers to help others benefit from telling their stories.
Lindsay Soberano-Wilson is a poet, teacher, and freelance writer. She is a member of the Canadian League of Poets. Her poems and articles have appeared in publications such as FreshVoices22, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Canadian Woman Studies Journal, The Canadian Jewish News, Scary Mommy, Travel Thru History, and Poetica Magazine. In addition to addressing self-identity and travel, her writing explores motherhood, feminism, sex-positivity, education, relationships, mental health, and literature. She holds a MA (English Literature) and a BEd from the University of Toronto, and a BA (Creative Writing and English Literature) from Concordia University.
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