by Desmond Peeples | Jul 1, 2022 | Featured, News
It has been a tumultuous two years since our start. Our mission of bringing together and celebrating rural queer and POC voices is no less necessary, but my energy has dwindled. Life has thrown me changes I can’t juggle along with this magazine. It pains me to...
by Desmond Peeples | Oct 10, 2020 | Featured, Interviews, Village Voices
Mount Island’s Village Voices is a series of bite-sized interviews featuring diverse rural artists. If you’re interested in being featured, email us at editors@mountisland.com. DonnCherie is a singer-songwriter, dancer, model, and visual artist. Since finding a home...
by Desmond Peeples | Jun 8, 2020 | News
Dear friends, Much has happened over the past few months. Please take a moment to read our statement in support of the movement for racial justice and police abolition. Given the many social and economic uncertainties presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, we have found...
by Desmond Peeples | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, News, Other
Mount Island is a Black-run publishing house, and we stand unequivocally with the current movement for justice in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and so many other beloved Black lives. This is a Black Spring now. An...
by Desmond Peeples | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, News
In December 2019 we announced our first writing contest, the Lucy Terry Prince Prize for rural poets of color, which honors the legacy of the first known African-American poet in English literature. Major Jackson, celebrated poet and professor at both University of...
