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Issue #15: Harmony – Mental Health Writing Contest

Issue #15 Harmony October 15, 2024 Table of Contents Letter from the Editor: Navigating the Spaces In Between Cover image: 20 Minutes or Less—Skipping rocks on the lake. (Photo by Jordan Rathkopf, May 14, 2022.) Announcing the winners of Please See Me’s 2024 Mental Health Awareness Writing Contest Nonfiction Post Partum | Jody Brooks Fiction The Last Black Woman on Eglinton | Morgan Christie Poetry - Co-Winners Slipping Away | Bobby Bradshaw Trigger Warning | Kelly Cass Falzone All That Glitters | Sarah Harley Hedgewalking | Kieran Malovear The ...

Issue #14: Acceptance

Issue #13: Animals & Health

Issue #13 Animals & Health Letter from the Editor: Who Rescues Who? Letter from the Poetry Editor: Deepening our Connection July 24, 2023 Eyes of the Mare by Tracy Granzyk Sympathy for the Devil | Mary Mahoney Three Graces | Carole Duff Surviving Is Little Comfort | Hannah Comerford How A Stray Dog Infiltrated My Writing Life | Kurt Schmidt Whose Mess? | Elizabeth JacksonMaster Key, Welcome Thunder, Self-Portrait as Kitten, Ars Poetica Haibun: Hospice Dogs, Two Versions, and Redeemer, Make Me Your ...

Issue #12: Diagnosis – Cover

Issue #12 Diagnosis December 31, 2022 Table of Contents Letter from the Editor: A Hero's Journey Cover Image from: Short film, Diagnosis (2002) Directed, produced, and edited by Alison Marek. Images used by permission. All rights reserved. Birthday Boy | William Cass The Swan Floating Serenely | Niamh O'Brien Putting the Top Down | David Blistein Finally Dead | Myra Seles To | Lee EustaceDiagnosis: Short Film as Medical Memoir | M Tamara Cutler Letter from the Poetry Editor: Diagnosis: Bravely Finding A ...

PSM Summer Supplement 2022 – IWP Africa Cohort

Summer Supplement IWP Writer's Program Africa Cohort September 26th, 2022 Summer Supplement 2022 Untitled by Kojo Addae Kagyah and commissioned by Franka Andoh The scene represents the end of a young mother's workday, and is based on Andoh's hometown El mina, a coastal town in the Central Region of Ghana historically known for its slave dungeons and rich, troubling history with Europeans. EDITORIAL Editor’s Introduction: The Value in Sharing Stories Across Continents Guest Editor’s Letter: Unraveling the Golden Thread NONFICTION All in ...

Issue #10: Women’s Health

Issue #10 Women's Health Letter from the Editor: Time's Up: If Not Now, When? April 22nd, 2022 Woman Body Changes by Jaeyeon Kim Woman Body Changes | Jaeyeon Kim Black Magic Woman, I See Her, ++++and Lust | Florence Yip Quieting the Emotional Chatter | Nancy McCauley I Need This More Than You | Julianne Frega & Nathan DiPerri Perfection | Lynn HsuFear of Infinity | Andrea Firth Dr. Good Girl | Davy Ran The Ocean, Hope and Getting Help | Emily Reicherts Window ...

Issue #9: Open Call

Issue #9 Open Call November 19th, 2021 Table of Contents Letter from the Editor: Choosing the Light The Spine 2 by Emanuela Iorga Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: Thoughts From the ICU Henk’s Choice | Hanne Jensen Borderless Dreams | Zinaria Williams Echoes | A.L. Gordon Lullaby for the Dead | Julia McDonald Funeral Songs | Raymond Wlodkowski At the Gas Station | Tiffany Avery In a Near Future, 1968 Again | Paul Rousseau Too Many Broken Hearts | Catherine MacKenzieServer Not Found | ...

Issue #8: Rest & Recovery

Issue #8 Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 Table of Contents Letter from the Editor: Up Again, Old Heart! Cover image by Anthony Clark Letter from the Guest Nonfiction Editor: Practicing Wellness Coping | Melissa Brand How to Grieve | Jennifer Ng No Tears Would Come | Tom Willemain Turtle Woman | Bethanie Gorny Letter from the Poetry Editor: Keeping It Going A Second Pandemic Easter | Megan Joiner It and Never Going Back | Dameien Nathaniel Progress | Mantz Yorke aubade to windbreak and Letter to ...

Issue #7: Mental Health

Issue #7 Mental Health April 15, 2021 Table of Contents Letter from the Editor: The Power of Narrative in Mental Health Awareness Cover image by David Martinez Announcing the winners of Please See Me’s 2021 Mental Health Awareness Writing Contest: Nonfiction Bipolarations | David Martinez Fiction The Gravity of Adrianne Lane | Rhonda Zimlich Poetry Grace and Grit | Emily Boshkoff Nonfiction Sorrow: Surviving a Son’s Suicide | Susan Wight Fiction When We Meet Again | Oreoluwa Oladimeji Inexplicable| Mickey Greaves Feeling of Impending Doom| Michael P. Moran COVID Helped ...

Issue #6: Bias

Issue #6 Bias November 20th, 2020 Cover Image: Self-Portrait by Rhonda Nunn Table of Contents Letter from the Editor: Taking Responsibility The Power of Our Actions: PSM Talks with Michele Harper A Letter to Aunt C About Depression | Jeanine DeHoney Epistemic Injustice Is the Problem We’ve Been Overlooking | Leah Rosen A Woman’s Pain | Karen Mann When Our Hearts Become the Sky | Michael Riordan Erosion | Susan Hall Letter from the Fiction Editor: Bias Ride the Peter Pan | Allison ...