A Note From The Editor


​As humans, we live in the liminal spaces between one hurt and another, one joy and another and one scar and another. However, as we emerge anew from each experience, there is art to be made and stories to be told. I am truly grateful to have been given the opportunity to curate such heartfelt pieces into this beautiful issue of Raw Lit.
I thank Delphine for trusting me with Raw Lit, her dedication and care for the work and contributors has been an inspiration.


Marie-Louise
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 entertainment 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.

The views expressed in this publication are the opinions and perspectives of the respective authors/artists and do not necessarily represent those of the editors of Raw Lit.

All the Details You Hope to Someday Forget
by Lisa Thornton

The Music of Rain
by JP Relph

I'm Not Thinking About
by Heather D Haigh

The Heart Is an Open Wound
by Mario Aliberto III

Dragon Wings, For Bella
by Vati Sreiberg

Soft Curves
by Jamie Ottewell

Celestial Engineering
by Alicia Cara

A Series of Asanas
by Sudha Subramanian

December 6
by Andrea Hunter

Disenchantment in Three Dishes
by Emily Macdonald

Dancing Tigers
by Srilatha Rajagopal

Matrescence
by Holly Harrison Cline
Erasure Poetry 
by Jay McKenzie
Jay McKenzie is the author of Mim and Wiggy’s Grand Adventure. Her work is found or forthcoming in adda, Unleash, Bath Flash Anthology, Flash Fiction Magazine, and others. She has won numerous prizes and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Exeter Novel Prize. She is a semi-nomadic Brit who has lived in Greece, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and South Korea, and she owns too many cardigans.
​Find her on IG: @jay_writes_books or on her website at www.jaymckenzieauthor.com

​Thank you​

Without our contributors, this issue of Raw Lit would not have been possible. If you enjoyed the magazine, please, support the creators featured by sharing their work on social media.

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Issue 5 - Summer 2024

Cover: George Priniotakis
Editor: Marie-Louise McGuinness