It takes courage to create. In looking through the past issues of Epiphany I am moved by how the writers we have published have that kind of daring. They
have explored urgent and complex issues, created mind-expanding imaginary worlds, and used language with extraordinary precision. Great writing should do just that.
Take Karol Nielsen’s essay, "Litmus Test," (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) in which she diligently sifts through her anguish about the rape of a friend on a Kibbutz in the middle of The Gulf War. Or the dark yet brilliant dream of George Olivier Chateaureynaud’s story in which he spins a fabulist tale of how a coin-operated firing squad casts a spell over a provincial French village. Or Bradford Brooks’ Dispatches from Africa in which he chronicles his astounding experience — a woman ravaged by leprosy, a cobra in the loo, and a amusing pathos about his own handicap in 115 degree heat. Or even Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott’s essay, "Down the Coast," which examines his repeated and frustrated attempts over five decades to make a movie. This kind of courage is the reason I continue to publish Epiphany.
—Willard Cook
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Willard Cook
Editor
Epiphany Magazine
71 Bedford Street
New York, NY 10014
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