CW: Mention of Rape Have a story you’d like to share about survival? Submit your piece, whether it be poetry, prose, art, or photography, to our literary journal, Songs of Survival! I first read Sarah Dessen’s Just Listen sometime between my eleventh and twelfth birthday. I remember devouring books one after another then, finishing maybe…
Soul Connections: How I Found My Courage Through Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
By Jamie Tortorello-AllenEditor for Songs of SurvivalAuthor of volcano and my mother collected angels, featured in Songs of Survival, Vol. I Iss. I Have a story you’d like to share about survival? Submit your piece, whether it be poetry, prose, art, or photography, to our literary journal, Songs of Survival! As my birthday approached…
Chanel Miller’s ‘Know My Name’ and the Power of Writing
By Katy MullinsEditor for Songs of Survival Have a story you’d like to share about survival? Submit your piece, whether it be poetry, prose, art, or photography, to our literary journal, Songs of Survival! In June 2016, Buzzfeed published a victim impact statement penned by the so-called ‘Stanford Victim’. At that point still anonymous, the…