Calling all artists & photographers! Submissions for art & photography are open until 8/26. Visual art tends to be one of the least submitted categories, so if you're an artist, & think we feel like a right fit for you, please consider sending something our way. Guidelines: heroinchic.weebly.com

Have a little faith in yourself. You have, in fact, made it this far on purpose, not by accident. Everything that looks impossible is just something you haven't figured out yet. Throw a little mystery over it. And give it some time. Our submissions are open till 8/26. heroinchic.weebly.com

We're all coming home to ourselves, some of us just have to take the long way. Don't need much but the words to throw over the dark. The feeling, if you can get inside it, will tell you everything you need to know. Our submissions are open till 8/26. Share that feeling with us. heroinchic.weebly.com

All any of us are ever really looking for is that "home at the edge of the world." Chosen family, a place where we don't have to try too hard to explain ourselves. Art can be such a place. We hope to be such a place. Submissions are open for our September issue until 8/26. heroinchic.weebly.com

"You can't make it without ever even trying." Ain't it so, it's about what you do with what you know that makes you grow. Peel back the layers & get down to that core truth from which spring the only waters worth drinking. Send us yer poems, stories, art, photography, & essays from that deeper well.

How do we keep hope alive these days? You gotta work at it. A high wire feat. Never easy. Always worth it. What hope have you found and made in these hard, dark days friends. Our submissions are open until 8/26. heroinchic.weebly.com

Artwork and poetry from our July issue by Nina Nazir! heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/artwork...

"Move along when the crowd is right / stand alone when the crowd is wrong", be a place for placeless ones to go. A place to be seen, heard, and understood amidst all the noise. We are open for submissions until 8/26. Tell us your story, friends. heroinchic.weebly.com

"In the end you just hope someone's there," picking up what you're putting down, like swirling points of light, in the scattered dark, saying: "me too" and "been there" and "I know the feeling." Our submissions are open until Aug. 26th. Share that feeling with us. heroinchic.weebly.com

Things aren't always so simple. But sometimes. Sometimes. It just is. We live for such moments, and a moment is also an eternity. Remember the simple joys too were/are there in our lives...

It's all one big hard walk. Songs come to us on the road, gifts of spirit, moments of clarity and purpose. Amidst the pain, some things hum. And the humming is holy. Submissions for our September issue are open until 8-26. Share your work with us. heroinchic.weebly.com

Hello friends, submissions for our September issue are now open! Deadline is August 26th. The theme, as always, is guided by each of you and whatever it is you're dealing with and walking through. Art is anchor and mending. Mend with us. heroinchic.weebly.com

Friends, our latest offering. Remember to dance, even on your darkest days. And give yourself a break. You're doing better than you feel. Here's to "that feeling". Dig in, and hold on. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/issue-4...

Photography by Jesse Leighton heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/photogr...

All aboard, the train leaves the station at midnight, eastern standard. Get those last minute submissions in! heroinchic.weebly.com

Two days left before submissions close. heroinchic.weebly.com

I've got a past I won't soon forget / you ain't seen nothing yet / I'm still learning how to fly" and apply principles and pressure to the aching and dark parts of self that fight against an okay life. It takes what it takes.

Six days left. Step into the clearing with us. We got stars, like jagged little blessings, to count. heroinchic.weebly.com

11 more days until submissions close. What impossibles are you working to make possible these days? heroinchic.weebly.com

Submissions close soon. Make your way on over the bridge and share your wonder-lit language with us. heroinchic.weebly.com

"You and I really aren't so different after all". Same stuff in us. Darkness, light, regret, hope, high wire, tight rope. Words cut us open, dreams spill out. Laughter is shared. Tears and fears. Same stuff, all around. Submissions close soon. Pass your stories round the fire. heroinchic.weebly.com

"I was still learning / my heart wasn't open yet", and then one day it does, and no matter how much you might will it so, you just can't seem to close it again. It all comes tumbling out, so much feeling, where else can you put it but the page?

Two more weeks before submissions close! heroinchic.weebly.com

Our EIC, James Diaz, will be reading their poems next Friday, June 19th, from 6 to 8 at Otto's Shrunken Head on the lower east side for Adverse Abstraction along with two other fellow poets! Come on out if you're in the area, and end the long work week with some poems.

"Let there be no more struggle", but while there is let us share it amongst each other. Hand to hand, let us pass it down the line until each voice is heard and each pain told. That life breaks us is known, but that it sweetens also with the company you keep, in those long and dark days...

"Sleep my sweet child Rest soundly and dream of beautiful things You are my heart, you precious fragile bird. And this is the home I’ve made for you, for us, to be safe." heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

"Follow the path known by heart". How we listen to ourselves matters. With deep and attentive or distant and dissociated ears. Truthfully most days it is a bit of both. But that we struggle to hear ourselves. It's how any piece of art gets born. And in the birthing something new in us finds voice...

"We're doing our part / to make the brambles less sharp". Life's a steady blow, but we work with what we know, and here & there along the way we grow, help each other figure it all out. That's what this is about. That none need go it alone. Walk & talk with us awhile. Subs open heroinchic.weebly.com

How in the world did we survive? Not everyone made it out. We write and sing to it. Carry it with us. People. Places. That it really was all for something. Us too. Friends. Share with us the people and places you carry with you. Our submissions close in three weeks. heroinchic.weebly.com

Sometimes we hide in plain sight. In obvious pain but unwilling or unable to speak the pain out loud to others. But all the good stuff comes when we come out of hiding and share our whole aching and joyous selves with others. Submissions are open friends...