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 invite colorful conversations that are rooted in humble hospitality. So, pull up a chair, pour yourself some coffee, and meet us here for conversations on purpose, place, theology, hope, friends, literature, music, and stories of all sorts with your fellow lovers of words and God.
Featured Work
Bluefield Light of the World
I have never heard Bluefield referred to as the Light of the World but I cannot imagine a city that has a greater claim to this name. Over the last century, Bluefield and the surrounding areas have mined some of the best burning coal in existence and shipped it nationally and internationally. We were the…
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You Don’t Know My Name
In the coal fields, back country / Came a briefcase down steel tracks / Mmm! Talkin’ pretty, / Pretty, pretty / Bout a dream and a plan…
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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