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WISING UP PRESS WRITERS COLLECTIVE
We're pleased to announce the beginning of our Writers Collective. Please go to the following pages to learn more about it and how you might join. We will be publishing single author works of poetry, fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction on themes of interest to Universal Table.
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ABOUT WISING UP PRESS
We decided to
create a small press to expand and support our various Universal Table
programs—and because we love the written word, especially when it is
used passionately and authentically to explore themes of abiding
importance to us as individuals and as a society. Many of our
publications focus on contemporary literature by contemporary
writers because of the power of narrative to help us identify safely
with others who may at first seem, by appearance or circumstances or
culture, very different from us. Stories make the world feel more
manageable by increasing our ability to tolerate suffering, to
experience empathy, to marry hope and pain in a way that honors
the reality in each of them. Stories teach us, in the very listening,
in the very act of identifying with the storyteller, or the characters,
that the existence of other points of view is a richness not a danger.
In our own lives, most of us find it difficult to tell stories that
have good roles for all of us, that can see our differences, however
profound, as mysterious, unpredictable, but ultimately gracious—an
invitation into a blessing story larger than any one of us can write
alone. We want our publications to serve as an invitation to stand in
that richer relation—empathic, musing, open to new meaning—with
ourselves and with our neighbors.
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