Update: Lumiere Review disappeared themselves and their magazine in 2024 after holding a call for a new issue earlier in the year. Note their GoFundMe is still active. At the time of this writing, they have offered no explanation to the community and their editor refused to answer queries. This was very sad, as it was a promising ‘zine that myself and many others supported. It’s also sad when your important grief work is discarded so callously. I am not the only writer who was publishing about suicide and other difficult topics. I will be writing more about writing, publishing, and grief in the near future and updating this page. Alternate Thanksgiving was published in December (uncannily) in Chiron’s ’24 winter issue. Lumiere Review is now some kind of girly game/gambling site, so if you also published there, I recommend removing your links so they don’t redirect to the site. Also, dead links hurt your Google ranking (that was how I discovered this–analytics)!
Pleased to have two pieces from One for Sorrow published in The Lumiere Review today. “Alternate Thanksgiving” is the first piece in the book. “Twelve Past Dead” appears in a different form (two consecutive poems) in the book. Know that each contains references to grief and/or suicide. There are other poems in the issue that do as well. Note the content warnings in headers, a great idea that I’d like to see other journals implement.
*Links removed because Lumiere Review is now some kind of girly game site. However, you can find “Alternate Thanksgiving” here or in the winter ’24 issue of Chiron. I also have an indigenous Thanksgiving piece published in this issue called “Giving Thanks.”
