Dear Readers,
Last year, our tenth anniversary, I mentioned Solstice Magazine’s various awards: an essay in The Best American Essays 2018, cited essays in 2015 and 2016, a Best of the Net Award, several Pushcart Prize finalists in poetry, a local Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and this year a 2019 grant from the CLMP/Amazon Literary Partnership. We are thankful for this recognition.
But on another level, we are also in distress. Why? Because we are a magazine promoting diversity in an increasingly divided nation where some preach hatred and prejudice. These ideas are in opposition to the values that our magazine represents—diversity of varied religions, socioeconomic classes, races, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, and ages.
This is a time for writers, photographers, readers and others to raise our voices to speak and write true narratives in order to foster a common understanding. True, or factual, narratives still exist, regardless of ever-increasing attempts to call them false.
And the narratives in this publication, indirectly or directly, are true.
Lee Hope
