BEST OF THE NET 2023; Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018;
(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist
By Ilan Mochari
It’s with a superabundance of gratitude that Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices presents our annual print issue—our first since 2020, owing to last year’s pandemic-related hiatus. If you’re new to our literary journal, welcome: You’re about to enjoy a volume of words and images that reflect our values of championing marginalized voices and fighting… Read more »
By Elizabeth Searle
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By Lee Hope
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By Ann Harleman
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By Kent Nelson
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By Sylvan Lebrun
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By Val Wang
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By Anjali Mitter Duva
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By Erica Charis-Molling
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By Robbie Gamble
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By Elsa Cross and Susan Ayres
Translated from the Spanish by Susan Ayres This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.
By Mirabai and Chloe Martinez
Translated from the Braj Bhasa by Chloe Martinez This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.
By Yulia Berezhko-Kaminska
Translated from the Ukranian by Andrew Sheppard This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.
By Olesya Mamchych and Christine Eliashevsky Chraibi
Translated from the Ukrainian by Christine Chraibi This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.
By Edward Gunawan
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By Clarissa Adkins
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By Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
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By Daniel Lawless
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By Zibiquah Denny
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By Brittany Adames
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By Christine Jones
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By Jory Mickelson
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By Sara Dallmayr
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By Aïcha Martine Thiam
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By Jennifer Leblanc
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By George Franklin
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By Dara-lyn Shrager
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By David P. Miller
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By Cammy Thomas
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By Alison Hawthorne Deming
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By Corinne Pines
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By A. Molotkov
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By Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
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By Alysia Abbott
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By Bridget Verhaaren
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By Steven Harvey
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By Joy Von Steiger
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By Amy Burroughs
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By Richard Hoffman
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By Robbie Gamble
For the past three years i’ve spent the majority of my time on a hillside in Vermont, looking over an apple orchard out across the Connecticut River Valley. The trees came with the property, and when we moved in, we knew next to nothing about maintaining an orchard. The learning curve has been steep, but… Read more »
By Richard Hoffman
There’s a rocky beach near my house where the other day—bright blue cloudless sky, some chop on the water—I saw a man in a fishing kayak. He seemed well equipped, wearing a vest with many pockets, a floppy canvas hat to shield him from the sun. Although he was some distance away, I could see… Read more »
By Barbara Siegel Carlson and Ewa Chrusciel
As the light gives way to earlier winter darkness, the landscape seems to sharpen, or is it just the earth growing more bare and spacious? Once again, we are on the cusp—the threshold of something else, some further existence, as what we encounter in poetry, striving to translate into language what it feels like to… Read more »
By Lee Hope and Anjali Mitter Duva
For fifteen years, solstice magazine has published fiction that embodies diversity of various types: country of origin, class, race, ethnicity, gender, religion and age. In this Winter Print issue, we range from the depths of racial injustice to the heights of lesbian love. Also, we offer styles varying from the experimental through the more traditional,… Read more »
By Robert James Russell
By Corvin Buchwald
By Ben Schachter
By Ilan Mochari
It is a leap of faith to enter a writing contest. Believe me, I know. I’ve done it for years, always forking over a fee, always pondering the things a submitter is bound to ponder: Does my cover letter matter? Does this journal really read every entry? Do the editors truly consider all entries for… Read more »
By Lou Jones
Reviving the momentum of www.panAFRICAproject.org before COVID19, my team returned recently to Kenya, the fifteenth country in this overly ambitious project. Using the “universal language” of photography, the mission is to counter the negative, neocolonial misconceptions promulgated by western media. We document country by country, modern, contemporary Africa to provide a visual compendium for usage by institutions,… Read more »
By Ilan Mochari
In Jennifer Martelli’s recently released poetry collection The Queen of Queens, an epigraph from Sally Wen Mao’s “Nucleation” notes that women “wear the trauma of other creatures around their necks, in an attempt to put a pall on their own.” Which is to say, among other things, that one creature’s trauma can be another’s decoration.… Read more »
By Patricia Ann McNair
Toya Wolfe was a creative writing student at Columbia College Chicago where I taught for decades. As happens in these writing programs, certain students have a glow about them, and their words, their stories, are the things that particularly make them shine. No surprise, then, when Wolfe’s debut novel was picked up by HarperCollins and… Read more »
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