Coming Soon: A Wisconsin Anthology of Resilience Through Words
I’ve been carrying a question in my heart: what happens when we name our scars, lay down our stories, and lean into the art of healing together?
This summer, I’m gathering voices from every corner of Wisconsin—farm fields and small towns, Great Lakes shores and river valleys—to co-author an anthology called A State of Healing. It will be a collection of honest truth: poems, essays, letters, and flash pieces that map the journey from pain toward hope.
Why this book?
Because our region knows hard seasons—and knows, too, that after the frost comes new green. We’ll hold space for the work of loss and grief, addiction and fear, fractured childhoods and the quiet courage it takes to keep standing. We’ll celebrate the small miracles: a neighbor’s kindness, a moonlit night on a tractor, the unexpected lift of a single line of verse.
What to expect next:
• On May 27th, I’ll open a free call for submissions.
• You’ll be able to send up to three poems or a short prose piece (≤ 1,000 words)—no entry fee, no gatekeepers.
• Submissions will be organized by theme: Healing Poetry, Letters to the Land, Memoir Excerpts, and more.
Whether you’ve never shared your work or you’ve filled countless journals, this is your invitation. Even if your story is still too close to see clearly, I promise you’ll find compassion in these pages.
Stay tuned:
I’ll post full guidelines and the submission link soon on HomemadeAuthor.com. If you’d like a reminder in your inbox, just let me know. And if you know someone who needs to hear this before they even know they need it, please pass it on.
Together, we’ll turn grief into verse, hardship into wisdom, and our shared humanity into healing.
—G. Anthony
Founder, A State of Healing