Editor’s Note – North East Special

Dear readers,

We had a hiatus of 16 months, but we are so happy to be back! Although we can’t really call it a hiatus because even though we had put a pause on our issue releases, we had been working on revamping our website so it can include all different components of our journal. In the last year and a half, we’ve also curated writing workshops, interviewed writers and poets for our popular 10 Questions series, and initiated projects like Rambling Poems, poems for the community, that we love and believe in.

Issue 17 is doubly special for us: first, it’s hosted on our new website—something we have built with a lot of care so it can be a space we have envisioned it to be. Don’t forget to check us out if you have not already. Second, it’s an issue we’ve put together in collaboration with Usawa Literary Review, a magazine we admire. We received an overwhelming number of submissions of high-quality writing for this issue and we had the difficult decision of saying no to many pieces simply because there’s a certain number of pieces that we can publish in each issue. The pieces selected for the issue stood out to us for their simplicity, clarity of thought, and their ability to resonate with us.

We hope that you enjoy this issue. Happy monsoon reading!

With warm regards,
Prarthana Banikya
Founder, The Little Journal of Northeast India.