Welcome to Switchgrass Review
A Literary Journal of Health, Healing, and Transformation.
We appreciate your support!
We're excited to bring you Vol. 5 fully available online (print will be available soon). All contributors will receive two free print copies. Some of you and our readership have asked to donate to help us with our printing costs. We appreciate any support, and we thank you for staying with us during this time in preparing the journal for our community.
Our Vision
We seek to offer a collection of daring voices that uncover the diverse narratives of health, healing, histories, and transformations in our communities. We work with talented, dedicated friends and colleagues at the Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation and across the Corpus Christi community and beyond. Together we recognize the local challenges, health disparities, and inequalities that forge a global crisis facing women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of different ages and abilities--all of this profoundly compounded by a global pandemic, COVID-19.
Our History
Switchgrass Review is a national journal of health, healing, and transformation. We are published annually by the Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation. The journal emerges from an initiative by Bill Jeron Hoelscher, the CEO of the Coastal Bend Wellness (CBWF), to raise awareness of women and girls with HIV and other health disparities in the Coastal Bend region of South Texas. This initiative began with a coastal bend wellness poetry prize, calling for poems from the coastal bend region and across the nation. The three top prize-winning submissions as well as many others were published in volumes 1-4, compiled and edited by Dr. Robin Carstensen, co-founding senior editor and Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-CC. The journal has expanded in the past few years to include prose and hybrid genres, and to focus on voices from marginalized communities, including women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, the senior community, and historically under-served writers in the Coastal Bend Region and beyond.
Our vision and mission honors CBWF's roots as the Corpus Christi Aids Foundation and our continued central role in serving our LGBTQIAP+ community. We have published five volumes of the best poems, fiction, and nonfiction from new, emerging, well-established and nationally and internationally award-winning authors. Each issue is celebrated with a public reading and book fair among community and contributors.
Favorite Links
Vida: Women in Literary Arts
Sundress Publications