Counterflow
Counterflow is Wordstorm's digital magazine. Published annually. Issue #3 available now.
About Counterflow
Wordstorm’s magazine, Counterflow, is an annual anthology showcasing work by emerging, early career, and established writers, poets, and visual artists from across all of Vancouver Island
and the surrounding Salish Sea Basin.
A counterflow is defined as a vortex, whirlpool, or maelstrom with currents that move in different, unexpected directions. Counterflow, the publication, seeks to create a home and community for written work that explores unexpected directions around the process of writing. Counterflow strives to support the development of new work by emerging and established creators who seek to enliven the adventure of writing through discovering new ways for their work to flow.
Change. It's happening all around us in both excitingly positive and extremely negative ways. In Issue #3 of Counterflow, we invited you to let your work speak to the idea of a Restor-volution. This concept, developed by Wordstorm’s artistic team, asks how poets and writers can help move the conversation toward exploring and rethinking the ways that we relate to our planet and to each other to restore harmony, balance, and equity for all species that share this world. We aren't looking for a revolution, but a new stage of evolution that honours the wisdom of generations who understood that humanity and nature are not divisible, but are inextricably connected.
We are excited to release our third issue featuring 22 contributors. Thank you to Heidi Greco for being this issue's guest editor and adjudicator. As always, we are grateful to all our contributors for sharing the waves and currents of their unique perceptions.
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Let's start a Restor-volution!
Carla and Amber
Counterflow Editorial Team
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This issue of Counterflow is dedicated to the memory of
Tim Lander (February 26, 1938 - August 20, 2023)
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