BTL 12: The Body Issue
BTL 12: The Body Issue is here!
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Blood Tree Literature's 2022 contest was so inspiring to create. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted. We are honored to share work from incredible, vulnerable, strong writers and such stunning art in this body-themed issue. The Body Issue features our contest finalists Erin Moynihan (1st place), Gregory Jones (2nd place), and Lauren Paredes (3rd place). As well as work from Arien Reed, Christina Seymour, Andrew Aulino, Kira Santana, Abbey Cahill, Elizabeth Lerman, Isibeal Owens, Michael Foran, Natalie Harris-Spencer, Rhonda Melanson, Lauren Gray, Hayley Notter, Emily Clarke, Kevin Nance, Angelo D'Amato, & Marcy Paul. Our featured artist for The Body Issue is body artist & tattooer Dana Shasho.
In conjunction with publishing the brave and beautiful writing of our Issue 12 contributors, and being able to award the three winners monetarily from the submission funds, we have also used submission proceeds to donate to a pro-choice organization. Matching the total contest prize money, we donated $150 to @bedsider, an online birth control support network operated by the non-profit @powertodecide, centering around education and access to reproductive and sexual health resources. Please check them out to learn more about all the awesome work they do.
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted to The Body Issue. It’s through the contest submission fees that we were able to pay our featured writers and donate to such an important cause. And thank you to all of our readers who we would not be able to keep BTL going without.
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XOXO
Kylie