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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Essays Poetry & Music Short Fiction Other ALL
Paradise, Vigil, & 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…
Spring Keeps Asking This Question: Who Are You Becoming?
When I was too little to remember my age, I sat on a mustard yellow, long and low 1960s couch where my grandfather asked me who I wanted to be when I grew up. Predicting who you’ll become is not easy at any age, but being too young to read seems to make it a little bit easier…
Revenge
The Prince of Darkness is raging.
How did this happen? He’d been ready on every front for violent outbreaks.
But a Baby in a willing womb?…
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