Journals of Love & Literature issue 1

Our inaugural edition "connection" celebrates the voices of independent and emerging artists. 200 pages of scribbles and stories.

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin

Journals of Love & Literature is an art and literary publication celebrating independent and emerging writers and artists and championing for queer and P.O.C voices. Our goal is to foster a community of authentic, like-minded people to celebrate what truly matters. We wish to honour the physical vessel of storytelling, the tactile, that assembles itself and becomes something much beyond its own limitations. This is impossible without connection, the theme of issue 1. Journals of Love & Literature acts as a meeting ground for all different creative mediums; photography, fictive and non-fictive literature, paintings, music, film, drawings, etc. With the weight and look of a coffee table book, but the readability of a novel on your bedside table, it accommodates itself to a range of different reading habits. A daring take on a traditional journal, it constitutes a juxtaposition between highbrow arts culture and the quirky, promiscuity of our emerging generation. Not only a curated collection of creative culture to consume, but a coffee-table staple. Love & Literature was created with community in mind, to create a clear space free of ego and greed for fellow soulful creatures to pour themselves into and celebrate what we believe is most important, love.

Editors:

Melanie McDacy (director, senior editor)

Sascha Zenari (senior editor, coordinator)

Drayco Forson (junior editor)

Lili Ramundi (junior editor)

Hanna Arain (junior editor)

Oscar Melder (junior editor, graphic stylist)

Penelope Day (text editing assist)