The Winter Solstice Issue

Dear readers:

This is the final issue of A Plate of Pandemic. Although the Covid virus is still a significant part of the public health landscape, we think this magazine has served its purpose. In the past year we’ve broadened our scope to include other pandemic-strength issues, such as gun violence, war, and drug addiction, to show how other crises impact creative minds. It seems, however, that the word pandemic is now just too loaded to signify much else besides the Corona virus. It has been difficult, recently, to find submissions concerned with non-Corona pandemics. That should change in the future, as the word evolves and gains resonance (especially since a bird flu pandemic may be imminent). We think, however, that to continue the magazine with a focus mainly on the Covid pandemic would serve only to reiterate tired material.

We have enjoyed our three-year run, and have appreciated your contributions, readership, and comments. In the process of creating A Plate of Pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about small-scale publishing, web design, and the support systems available to little magazines. We hope that you, our readers, find much of interest in this last issue, and in the back issues, which are available through our website. Thus, we wish you the courage, strength, and health, to endure whatever the next four years bring under a political regime soon to launch its avowed mission of revenge, retaliation, racism, restriction of women’s rights, and institutional destruction.

Your editors,

Selma Moss-Ward
Margaret Haynes-Lamont