This issue is dedicated to the loving memory of
Fidel (2008-2024)

Artwork by Georgia Spyratou
Georgia Spyratou is a promising young artist and animal lover from Athens, Greece.
Instagram: @ge0rgiasp

Dear reader,

Please be advised that published work may contain triggering and difficult topics. Therefore, most written pieces have content warnings for reference.

While Raw Lit aims to offer a safe place for its contributors and readers, we do not claim to be health professionals. The content published is for informational purposes only.
All work published with Raw Lit is the copyright and personal property of the creators. No writing or artwork in this publication may be copied and distributed in any way or form without permission from the creator.

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The Warped Jigsaw Piece
by Marie-Louise McGuinnes

Trevelyan’s Corn
by Seán McNicholl

Fifteen
by Alice Hatcher

The Highway
by Rachel Laverdiere

Just Another Night
by G. Lynn Brown

Beatrice's Purgatory
by Katrina Moinet

Things I Can Never Teach My Daughter
by Audrey T. Carroll

Gibbous Girl
by Angela Townsend

One Sentence
by Megan Hanlon

Going Nowhere
by Amy Marques

In Death as in Life
by Fiona McKay

Unrequited Dancing
by William Ross

Five Weeks, Six Days
by Angie Brady

The Day I Believed in Aliens
by  Catherine Rossi

Pink
by Emily Macdonald

When Jen Attends Her Class Reunion
by Alison Wassell

Take me Home
by Caroline Ashley

We’ll All Die
by Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani
We invited the artists and writers whose work we did not accept to transform their Raw Lit emails into Erasure Poetry (by posting & tagging us on X-Facebook-Instagram). We will publish one per issue henceforth.

For issue 4, we picked the erasure by DLC Hanson who turned the unpleasantness of a rejection for his artwork Bushfire into something fun, and although Raw Lit deals with harsh topics, we will always welcome humour.
DLC Hanson grew up in Grimsby and Leeds before travelling the world, falling in love and
moving to London. After finding neither fame nor fortune, he moved to rural Essex to start a
family, a business, a covers band and to become a writer. He is currently working on his first novel.
X: @DLCTheWriter

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Issue 4 - Winter 2023 -2024

Cover: Mirjana M.
Editor: Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos