HopeWords Literary Journal
The HopeWords Literary Journal exists for writers, artists, and readers who long for hope and heaven and who look for timeless stories from diverse voices that all point back to the good, true, and beautiful. The HopeWords Literary Journal is not clickbait, it's not artificial, it's not breaking news. It's a community of writers, painters, preachers, thinkers, musicians, photographers, cartoonists, and storytellers who foster colorful conversations that are rooted in humble hospitality.
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Trash
As the piano whispered hymns behind his closing prayer and the rustling of the plastic that surrounds old ladies’ mints, the ones that’d ready their tongues for post-church gossip, filled the room, Pastor Michael Altizer couldn’t help but think that this had been the worst week to ever be so rudely interrupted by a Sunday…
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A Conversation with Linwood Berry: The Painter Prophet
Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1951, Linwood Berry grew up in a nomadic family, living on both the east and west coasts at different points. After graduation, he left home and continued in his nomadic ways, working various jobs before fulfilling his military duty. Back stateside at the age of 21…
Paradise, Vigil, and The Organ Concert
Below our borrowed house the avocado groves
Fold their precious fruit beneath leaf sheen
Like children hiding toys in their coats.
On chain-link fence around…
A Ministry of Pages and Presence
My co-worker Michelle would sometimes pop around the corner and ask me about children’s books when we had a slower day at the library. Listening to her revisit stories from her childhood was relatable and hilarious because she was always cheering for the offbeat…
Light of the World: Behind the Music
At the HopeWords writer’s conference, we have a tradition of opening our time together with a reading of Travis Lowe’s essay entitled “Bluefield: Light of the World.” It’s a liturgy of sorts, a habitual invocation and annual reminder of who we are and where we are. Travis’s essay reflects on the history of Bluefield – the boom and bust of the coal industry…
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