Mental Illness Zine

Feb 23, 2007 14:14


POETS, WRITERS, FRIENDS, FOES, read on!

I am putting together a zine/anthology/chapbook about mental illness. There will be poems, essays, personal narratives, information, etc. on mental illness. The point is to get many voices who have had experiences with mental illness heard, so that a whole spectrum -friends, patients, social workers - are heard. This is a deeply personal and important issue for me. There is simply not enough conversation about mental illness, too little known, more people suffering, struggling, and living with it than is spoken about, and I believe we can make a difference with this chapbook.

If you have a history of mental illness, please please please consider writing and submitting a poem about (a) your experience with mental illness, or (b) on the topic of mental illness. If you don't have a personal history with mental illness, but have had it affect your life, please consider submitting a piece about the experience. I already have some great folks in this anthology and I'm looking to make it the bomb - informative, de-stigmatizing, beautiful, and de-tabooifying (you heard me!).

Please leave me a message here if you're interested or at s e zero five at hampshire dot edu with "mental illness anthology" as the subject line. Also, leave me any questions and concerns you might have.

Lastly, submit!

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