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Letter from the Editor by Brianna Vigil, Poetry Editor

looking through a dense array of palm leaves

Sentience is collected, impossible to bury, so it sprouts in the dirt, and when it opens, it tells stories: life is a ripe fruit you can take a bite of, and taste together, our written words guided by delight. by introspection. by loss, by love, become components of the earth.

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023 sentiencejournal

Seeking ‘Connections’

In returning to Sentience for Issue Two, the editors wanted to create a bookend to the “Isolation” of Issue One. In part, this is because Sentience began as a pandemic project, conceived as a way to keep story and language moving in a time of palpable disconnection, an extension of workshopping from a distance and… Read More Seeking ‘Connections’

April 22, 2022 sentiencejournal

This is the Day of the Show Y’all!

Hello readers, writers and curious parties alike! Thank you so much for either being an active part of, or randomly stumbling across, Sentience Literary Journal. We are so excited to have you all here for our very first publication! I want to give a special thank you to all the amazingly talented writers who are… Read More This is the Day of the Show Y’all!

February 27, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

MASTHEAD

Editor-in-Chief
CNF Editor
Helen Doremus

Fiction Editor
Lisa Croce

Poetry Editor
Brianna Vigil


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sen•ti•ence sĕn′shəns, -shē-əns, -tē-əns►

n. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness.

n. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought.

n. Sentient character or state; the faculty of sense; feeling; consciousness.

n. a digital literary journal established by a diverse pool of fiction writers, essayists, poets, artists, and editors who are dedicated to supporting their peers as they tackle the beauty and chaos of the world we live in through the written word.

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