Libre Lit Mag

Breakdowns, break throughs, break ups. What’s the nature of "the break", how does it serve us best? Publishing essays about the health & trauma. There is a tender geometry to writing around trauma. The brain feels impossible to contemplate. We are looking for health and trauma narratives. We pay our contributors generously for their labor and safety. Submissions are closed but we should have responses back to you by January. Libre invites you to write about health, sourcing examples of and from our bodies as temporary containers. Trauma can time-travel for us, and, one day, we'll find it hiding in a pocket in an old jacket. It wasn't healed, so here it is, monster in the closet. We believe in the old, Jungian theory of psyche, spirit, and skin. We want a second chance with this community. Better still, we want to spotlight writing that treats symptom like a poetry prompt. Body-heart wisdom, the nature of diagnosis. Illness as an active verb. Surely, we are able to recognize the impulse to reengineer our traumas through the helpful container of creative writing or visual art-making.