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 Mount Island | May 4, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Village Voices
Mount Island’s Village Voices is a new series of bite-sized interviews featuring diverse rural artists. If you’re interested in being featured, email us at editors@mountisland.com. JC Wayne is a poet, visual artist, cartographer of the unseen, and founder...
by Mount Island | May 1, 2020 | Featured, News, Village Voices
Are you a rural artist? Are you also part of the LGBTQ+ community? Or perhaps the POC community? Both, even? Mount Island would like to include you in its new feature, Mount Island’s Village Voices! As we adjust to the new landscape, Mount Island is excited to...
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...
by Desmond Peeples | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured, In the Press, News
Published in Seven Days on December 4, 2019 Brattleboro-based Mount Island, founded by Desmond Peeples, is a literary magazine devoted to the voices of rural LGBTQ and people of color. This week, the online quarterly began accepting submissions for a new poetry prize...
by Mount Island | Dec 1, 2019 | Featured, In the Press, News
“BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A Vermont literary magazine and small press catering to the rural LGBTQ population and people of color will begin accepting submissions next month for a new poetry prize named after a woman with ties to Deerfield. Mount Island has established...
