Founded 15 November 2016, Writers Resist is a literary journal born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. WELCOME!
We publish creative expressions of resistance at www.WritersResist.com Writers Resist, a literary journal born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, publishes creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists. We are dedicated to challenging all things that diminish our nation’s quest for equality, freedom, justice and a healthy planet for all—while having a bit of fun, which is
why we publish weekly, not 24/7. Visit our website at www.writersresist.com to learn more. Contact our publication at [email protected]. SUBMISSIONS: We accept submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and images. We pay a token pittance for accepted submissions not previously published elsewhere. Visit our Submissions page for more information. http://www.writersresist.com/submission-guide/.
Read "Come Mourn with Me," by Elizabeth Birch, in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Elizabeth Birch Come mourn with me. Pour your aching hearts into the endless hole we dug to house Mother Nature’s empty self. Come throw your smashed cans, stretched plastic, burnt oil, and dung on her hollow body below. Come cry for all the ifs, buts, and whys we should’ve asked ourselves...
Read Eduardo Ramos's "Shukran," in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Eduardo Ramos Thank you for sharing your world and helping me connect with mine. For speaking words unfamiliar to my ears stirring memories in my tongue. Usted reacquainted me with Al-Andalus and the road across Africa to Al-Mashriq, reaffirmed that my barrio is a rich mix of cultures, where w...
Read "Death Equals Silence" artist Micaela Kaibni Raen's statement in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Micaela Kaibni Raen Artist statement I am my grandmothers’ dream, and she is mine. We exist together through Tatreez,
Just announced! Poets for Harris - a live virtual event on Sun Sept 15 (4pm PST / 7pm EST) will feature over 40 poets. More details coming soon. RSVP at https://PoetsForHarris.com and follow .
Read "Numbers" by Michal Rubin in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Michal Rubin Mohammed, Wadia, two brothers Ala Asous, Hazaa, Rami, Ahmed, four brothers six cousins Rizkallah, seventh cousin, one missile, hundred shards of glass, one ambulance, one mass funeral, one village, one sleepless night at Muthalath al-Shuhada I wish my body moved, shook the numbers...
Read "Baptism" by Shieva Salehnia, in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Shieva Salehnia The fountain in the middle of Washington Square Park has not always been there, just as I have not always been here standing next to it. In the middle of the park, I climb inside the edge of the fountain’s lips. I lean back against them, cool slick stone. The bubbling center ...
Read "Inside the Serotonin Industrial Complex," by Dick Westheimer, in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Dick Westheimer "The only winning move is not to play." —from the movie War Games "You can’t call it anything else. It’s just slavery." —Calvin Thomas, who spent more than 17 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, working the fields and cattle processing facilitie...
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Read Myna Chang's "Suburban Survival" in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
Myna Chang
By Myna Chang My sleeping bag’s nestled in the drainage ditch where I used to play hide and seek. The new people living in our house don’t have any kids, so they don’t know the neighborhood’s good hiding places like I do. I see them in our kitchen. Mom’s curtains are gone. The walls are bl...
Read "2020," by Zhihua Wang, in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Zhihua Wang 1 It’s October now, I am still listening to the song “Beautiful Springtime.” It seems the spring of 2020 never came. 2 The moon must love my daughter’s window more as it often has songs flying out of it. 3 I am in love with my bed now. Every time I lie on my pillow, wrapped...
Read "Miss Suzie Had a Baby, She Named Him Tiny Tim," by Laura Grace Weldon, in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/miss-suzie-had-a-baby/
By Laura Grace Weldon Outrage drives me outside, a choice a woman can still make. I clamber close to our muddy creek collecting trash caught in fallen branches. I empty water from a Stroh’s bottle and battered jug of Cheer detergent. Pull out blue plastic bags and an honest-to-God wire hanger. ...
Enjoy the creation of Ell Cee the Artist, "Make a Splash," in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
Read the artist's statement at the link.
By Ell Cee Artist statement As a q***r person and artist, I've been struggling with the constant legislative attacks against the q***r community echoing across America. So what's at the heart of my piece, Make A Splash? Honestly? This
Read "Trans Joy: A Selfie in Five Parts," by Dameien Nathaniel, in the Summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Dameien Nathaniel 1. 2007 and I have gotten my first flip phone. We are hanging out after the after school art club, and Alyssa has just informed me that this cell phone can take photos. You just have to open it, access the camera, hold the phone at arm's length, and do your best, since you ca...
Read "In Florida," by Anna Lucia Deloia, in the summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Anna Lucia Deloia a school principal confiscates the dictionary. When a student tries to look up the meaning of ontology (n.), she is informed that she doesn’t exist. In Massachusetts, the police storm a classroom to apprehend a graphic novel. They bury it in it the woods behind the station,...
Read "God in Hiding," by Kayla Blau, in the summer 2024 issue of Writers Resist.
By Kayla Blau Our five-year-old fingers plucked mancala beads, wove white flower crowns, blew dandelion seed wishes. Our Barbies knew no god. Our families spoke nothing of politics. Sleepovers at hers were cardamom and allspice, steaming lamb nestled under mounds of rice, fried eggplant, labneh a...
The summer issue of Writers Resist awaits you.
It's summer and all kinds of things are in bloom—beautiful and ugly—but we're happy you're here. We're moved by the courage of those who give voice to their righteous struggles. We're determined to continue to be able to challenge the inequitable and untenable. We're hopeful climate leaders will...
From Amplified Voices, a special issue of Writers Resist:
"Jannah is a single strand. My father is the complementary prognosticator strand." by Abdulrazaq Salihu
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Those who follow Sara Marchant, one of our founding Writers Resist editors, have come to love and laugh with Sara's mother and her wonderful, ribald humor. Now you can join her in Sara's new daily planner, "Essential Planner for My Mother's Huge Cult Following." Order it on lulu.com.
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Mom: Big tit p**n?
Sara: Right.
Mom: Little pe**er p**n.
Sara: Nobody wants that.
Mom: But is it resistance? That’s the question.
Sara Marchant's octogenarian mother has a huge cult following on social media. This is the planner for all those followers to start their days with a chuckle. New followers are welcome—all you need is a pen and to be able to remember what year it is.
Were I not tracking the Christian-nationalist movement, this article would've been a shocker. Instead, it elicited a disdainful fart.
"Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by cash stipends, have attended trainings featuring these materials.
"A three-day training course on civic education, conducted throughout Florida in the summer of 2023, included a presentation on the "Influences of the Judeo-Christian Tradition" on the founding of the United States. According to speaker notes accompanying one slide, teachers were told that "Christianity challenged the notion that religion should be subservient to the goals of the state," and the same hierarchy is reflected in America's founding documents. That slide quotes the Bible to assert that "[c]ivil government must be respected, but the state is not God." Teachers were told the same principle is embedded in the Declaration of Independence." –from Popular Information
Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by
From Amplified Voices, a special issue of Writers Resist:
"18 Jennas" by Jenna Mayzouni
By Jenna Mayzouni A social media influencer had posted that he looked up how many people were killed in Gaza who shared his name. Morbid curiosity seized me, and I searched for mine. On Nove…
From Brave New Films: Grab the popcorn! (It's only 2 minutes.)
Dozens arrested and convicted. Hundreds of indictments. Million-dollar settlements. No one has brought on a bigger crime wave than Donald Trump and his croni...
From Amplified Voices, a special issue of Writers Resist:
Two Poems by Lonav Ojha
To Refaat Alareer, who became a kite Brother, you looked so loving, holding very gently that box of strawberries, and behind your home, not yet, not again, but incessantly in ruins. Y…
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to support abortion access.
Why would anyone who knows abortion should be legal in all or most cases vote for anyone who doesn't?
Source: Pew Research Center
Views are split by political party, but support for legal abortion has risen modestly in both groups since before the 2022 Dobbs decision.
Writers, take heart.
From The Public Domain Review:
A literary magazine whose criterion for acceptance was simple: each piece had to have been previously rejected.
From Amplified Voices, a special issue of Writers Resist:
“Zoo” by N. de Vera
By N. de Vera I fidgeted at the line for immigration after arriving at LAX. When it was my turn, I calmly answered the officer’s questions, hoping this was a routine interview that would go …
Join us in congratulating Tara Campbell on her new book CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES, now available for pre-order!
Now Available for Preorder directly from the publisher SFWP or Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, or Walmart Coming September 2024 In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water and safety are elusive in this
From Amplified Voices, a special issue of Writers Resist:
"In Pillars, the Prized City" by Maira Faisal
By Maira Faisal “You ask: What is the meaning of ‘homeland’? “They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky. “You ask…
Check out poetry editor Debbie Hall's interview on the publication of her newest book!
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2022-05-05/childrens-poetry-book-animals-debbie-hall?fbclid=IwAR3K5zw2DoPQak303Ses0vUtne5SNOlKs-p3bbKV0UIWqy9PxKTMTtVqHjQ
Poet Debbie Hall puts wildlife in the spotlight with 'In the Jaguar's House,' her first book for children
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