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Shaping Destiny, Volume VIII, Issue II About Place Journal, October 2024 cover featuring pencil drawing of a bald eagle

Shaping Destiny: Election Season, Before, During and After


Volume VIII, Issue II – October 2024


Issue and managing editor: Michael McDermott

Contributing editors: Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jacqueline Johnson, Richard Cambridge, Pamela Uschuk

Assistant editors: Kate Sutter and Ellie Coleman

Layout editor: Jesse Hughes

Web development: Creature Works

Cover artwork: Ledale Williams, Eagle


"Shaping Destiny: Editors' Notes" banner: mural of Jerusalem viewed through a hole in the wall

Section artwork: Holy Land by Austin Farber

"Shaping Destiny: During" banner: mural of Iyad Hallaq with graffiti covering the lower portion

Section artwork: Untitled by Austin Farber

"Shaping Destiny: New Writings from Parchman" banner: abstract rusted metal

Section artwork: This Too Shall Pass by Matthew Fertel

Matthew Fertel was not one of the students at Parchman. The title of his art work, ‘This Too Shall Pass,’ seemed appropriate.

Content warning: Some pieces in this section refer to drug addiction, racial violence and persecution, sexual abuse, and violence.

 

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