At the outset of putting together Issue 3, I’m not sure any of the editorial staff anticipated what a challenge the summer of 2023 would be when it came to releasing an issue worthy of its contributors.

We learned a lot from the struggles of Issue 3 and, going forward, we will be looking to expand our team to even out the workload and expand the journal itself. To that end, we will be opening up a call for volunteer readers and other support staff going into 2024. In 2024, our goal is to begin publishing on a more frequent and scheduled basis, and also to expand avenues to receive submissions so we can feature more of the diverse and sometimes unexpected voices that we have sought to bring forward in these last three issues.

We thank each and every one of our contributors for their hard work and for choosing Sentience to house their pieces, and we hope that you the readers will consider and ultimately enjoy each work that we curated for this issue, which seemed to thematically embrace the imagery of gardens. Walk through these, the gardens of memory, of grief, of anger and beauty and joy, and let our writers show you what wonders they have grown there.

Enjoy!

Helen Doremus,
Editor In Chief, Sentience Literary Journal

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