Inner space cultivation; aligned expression of authentic truth
Thank you for your desire to contribute to this anthology of intimate literature and visual art; thank you for being a necessary part of this community.
Issue 3: “The Sensualist…”
The 2025 theme for the Wellspringwords® platform is “Living our freedom…”.
Using our Literary Anthology, we will explore, as a collective, some of the more nuanced and subtle aspects of freedom. Our freedom encompasses our embodiment as much as it touches on our sense of psychological openness and access to societal frameworks for success.
In this Spring/Summer issue, we are exploring the embodied experience of inhabiting oneself. In this publication, we get to define the role of sensuality in our lived experience.
We want to learn about you as The Sensualist. Through your writing and visual art, demonstrate your physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations — and your experience with sensation itself.
Submissions close on March 26, 2025.
Meet the Editorial Team for this issue…
We love to collaborate with passionate writers, readers, and community builders when crafting each issue of our Literary Anthology. Our Editorial Team rotates and is always diverse, intentional, trauma-informed, and involves community members who embody the ethos of Wellspringwords® in their own unique ways.
Nkem Chukwumerije
Global
Nkem is the Founder of Wellspringwords® and has been a teacher of writing for 13 years. She is a heartist devoted to creating spaces for humans, especially women of color, to journey inward and align with their unique creative wisdom. She uses her passion for and expertise in writing, embodiment, and energy cultivation to create portals for internal transformation and authentic external creative expression. She is inspired by the soul-to-human experience, the wisdom of nature, and the magic of intention and belief. She is here to guide and empower through the sacred Self experience.
Nkem is the author of the poetry collection Poetry and the immediate: A collection of sensed spaces, loves to dance, cook, enjoy warm creamy drinks in the morning, and take long walks to connect with Gaia. Learn more about her via her website www.bynkem.co.
Courtney Ng
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Courtney finds meaning and hope in connection with others, with words, with dreams. She writes poetry and creative nonfiction. She coaches young people whenever she is gifted the opportunity. She studies life and new ways of being by travelling the world (she currently is living in Mexico!). She credits this curiosity with growing up in NYC and being the child of many cultures. She journeys into the unknown with courage and hopes her life’s work helps others do the same.
Learn more about her via Substack courtneyng.substack.com.
Lidia Abraha
Toronto, Canada
Lidia (aka Bahari) is a storyteller captivated by the conscious and unconscious symbols that shape our lives. With a deep appreciation for tarot, astrology, and mythology, she infuses these sacred practices into her writing and spiritual guidance, helping others discover new ways of being. She is the founder of That Wacky Witch, a spiritual collective dedicated to supporting self-discovery, healing, and transformation through art. Through workshops, 1-on-1 consultations, and tarot readings, Bahari empowers individuals to connect with their inner wisdom and live their most magical, authentic lives.
Learn more about her via her Substack wackywitch.substack.com.
Sabriaya Shipley
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Sabriaya is a Philadelphia-based storyteller, educator, and community ethnographer determined to cultivate performance art and archival spaces centered around the expressive freedom of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities both locally with organizations such as Artwell Philly, The Painted Bride Art Center, Power Street Theatre and internationally with Residency 11:11 in London and the Chateau Orquevaux Artist and Writers Residency in France. A recipient of the 2021-2022 Philadelphia Foundation and Forman Art's Initiative Art Works grant and the 2022-2023 Rosine 2.0 Past Visions/ Future Archives Micro-Grant, Sabriaya currently serves as the Executive Director of Theatre Philadelphia and looks forward to continuing to collaborate as an educator, artist, and artistic advisor in sustaining equitable and ancestral means of storytelling in the Philadelphia community.’
Learn more about her via her website www.sabriayashipley.com.
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