Inner space cultivation; aligned expression of authentic truth
Thank you for your desire to contribute to this anthology of intimate literature and visual art; thank you for being a necessary part of this community.
Issue 4: “Love, Surrendered.”
Love is the inimitable, ineffable force that moves us, creates us, and evolves us.
However, it is not only “love” that we were taught that we wish to explore in Issue 4 of our publication. It is love’s varying and multidimensional forms — desire, lust, self-love, self-preservation, orgasm of many varieties, empathy, compassion, grace, rage, sorrow, and more — that we wish to explore.
And deeper, it is not only forms of love, but the surrendering to these forms explored, that we wish to exhibit.
What is it to surrender, and surrender to love?
What are the visceral, subtle, and lived challenges of surrendering?
What does love teach you as you surrender deeper and deeper into its alluring force?
Meet the Editorial Team for this issue…
We love to collaborate with passionate writers, readers, and community builders when crafting each issue of our Literary Anthology. Our Editorial Team rotates and is always diverse, intentional, trauma-informed, and involves community members who embody the ethos of Wellspringwords® in their own unique ways.
Nkem Chukwumerije
California, USA
Nkem is the Founder of Wellspringwords® and has been a teacher of writing for almost 15 years. She is a heartist devoted to creating spaces for humans to journey inward and align with their unique creative wisdom. She uses her passion for and expertise in writing, embodiment, and energy cultivation to create portals for internal transformation and authentic external creative expression. She is inspired by the soul-to-human experience, the wisdom of nature, and the magic of intention and belief.
Nkem is the author of the poetry collections Poetry and the immediate: A collection of sensed spaces and Fullness Dawns, loves to dance, cook, enjoy warm drinks in the morning, and take long walks to connect with Mother Earth.
Learn more about her via her website www.bynkem.co.
Evangeline
Texas, USA
Evangeline writes to live. To build something new, to fall in love, to uplift, to see through fresh eyes, and to live vicariously through her characters who get to adventure in far more exciting worlds than she. Evangeline has written books like King Beatrice and Love Letters from an Insomniac, and will be publishing a new collection of poetry and prose.
Home is where her bed is, and right now, that's deep in the heart of Texas, likely with a glass of wine, al pastor tacos, and a good book.
Learn more about her via her website: evangelineonpaper.wixsite.com/books
LaRue Swann
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
LaRue Swann (she/her) is a certified intimacy doula, sexual health educator, and cultural researcher focused on erotic sovereignty and sexual justice for Black women. As founder of The Lair Company, she teaches sacred submission through kink and African spirituality. Her work in sexual education bridges personal healing and systemic change with academic and ancestral insight.
Learn more about her via her Substack: larueswann.substack.com/
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