Issues
horizon
Spring 2024
What comes after?
Past this flare-up, fast the treatment, past days you can do nothing but endure. As we move through days of illness, of pain, and loss, grief, and trauma. What is the horizon you push towards?
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issue iii unabashedly confessed the darkness of illness. Its pages detail complexity, pain, memories bitter and broken, realities of life touched by illness.
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This issue, we invite the future is awaiting you past the horizon of that pain-stricken land. Whether you’ve reached your future, or you’re still dreaming of all it could be, we want to bask in it with you. What does healing and recovery look like? What has regrown, what is new?
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Who are you, in this tomorrow?
​All that it is, and all that it could be. Bliss or bittersweet, horizons proudly shares it.
confessions
Summer 2023
This issue, healthline zine invited artists to express what they most wished to,
yet could not easily say. The kind of things they were unsure they were allowed
to say, feelings they were not "supposed" to have, things they couldn't say to those around them yet desperately need to get out. Things they weren't
sure others wanted to hear.
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We do. We're ready and waiting, complete with a blanket and a mug of tea.
Sit as close as you'd like. From your time with illness and recovery, what will you
confess? healthline zine is run entirely by volunteers and does not profit
from any issues we release, social media platforms we use, or anything else. we appreciate donations in order to upgrade our website, buy our own domain,
invest in graphic design tools to make the next issue even better than this one,
and one day, pay staff and contributors.
ekphrasis contest winners
Spring 2023
Ekphrasis is an exercise in appreciating the complexities of another’s work of art & deriving from it a unique meaning, thus allowing the mind to roam within the confines of an unfamiliar portrait; ensnared & unbound.
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For the contest, we asked creatives to pick between three prompts provided by each of the publications; Summer Night chosen by Swim Press, The Lost Tribe nominated by healthline zine, & The Cloudscent Journal's pick of Falling Star - all of which resonate individually with the magazines' ethos.
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In this booklet, we present to you the six entries that spoke to us & our guest judges Ashley Hajimirsadeghi (poetry) & M. T. Khan (prose) the most, the ones that made us reconsider the original art, the ones that led us to question our worlds & the ways we exist within them.
hiraeth
Fall 2022
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hiraeth is a Welsh word expressing a blend of homesickness, nostalgia, & longing. In Wales, it is used primarily as a descriptor of the experience of reminiscing & grieving Welsh culture. ​
​Over the last few months, healthline zine had asked artists to make that idea their own. For our second issue, we searched for daydreams, space between musical notes, blurred landscapes & manifestations & half-baked dreams. blending with healthline's theme of healing, hiraeth came out as a collection of work unlike anything we've seen before.
angels
Spring 2022
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part 1 of healthline zine's second issue spans 44 pages & features 29 works of art & writing from 18 talented contributors. "Part 1: self-portrait" repaints the writers as the angels. in this part of the issue, we strive to be our best, we accept ourselves, and we are so full of love, it is enough to make the earth shake and the stars melt. "Self-portrait" is the one where submitters showed us their ugly & beautiful, & we fell neck-deep in love.
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Part 2 of healthline zine's second issue spans 50 pages & features 31 works of art & writing from 27 talented contributors. "Part 2: beloved" is an ode to love in its forms, a compendium of elegies to the loves we've passed & a prayer to those we are yet to find. in this part of the issue, we love so hard, so much, the galaxy crumbles under its weight. In this issue, we love so hard, so much, it is enough to stitch the world back together. "beloved" is the one where there is love, there is love, there is love. "beloved" is the one that promises that, in this world, there is always love.
the climb
Fall 2021
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healthline zine's debut issue spans 68 pages & features 33 works of art & writing from 18 talented contributors. issue 0: the climb is all about finding the core of who we are through the experiences that have shaped us & the people that have loved us. the climb is split into three sections: "more than the sum of my parts," "as i am destined to be," & "lodged into my body." each section sheds light on a different part of the climb & each section is necessary to form a full picture of struggle, triumph, & self-discovery.
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