I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS BEFORE I LEAVE

An Online Literary Zine

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Call for Submissions!

We are accepting creative writing submissions for our next issue until October 31st. Submit here: http://www.beforeileavezine.com/contact

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Our April 2017 issue is out now. You can read it here: 

http://www.beforeileavezine.com/april-2017

Artwork by Maura Trinder.

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Soon it will be the sky of early spring, stretching above the stubborn ferns and violets. Nothing can be forced to live. The earth is like a drug now, like a voice from far away, a lover or master. In the end, you do what the voice tells you. It says forget, you forget. It says begin again, you begin again.

Louise Gluck (New Yorker, 2008)

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Surely spring has been returned to me, this time not as a lover but a messenger of death, yet it is still spring, it is still meant tenderly.

Louise Gluck, from “Vita Nova” featured in Vita Nova (via watchoutforintellect)

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We now are accepting creative writing submissions for our April 2017 issue! Email your work to [email protected] by March 26. 

Check out our February issue here: http://www.beforeileavezine.com/february-2017

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Our December issue is out today. Cover art by Andres Perez. 

http://www.beforeileavezine.com/december-2016

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Cover art for our October 2016 issue by Samantha Rivera. 

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Our June 2016 issue is out now at www.beforeileavezine.com

Art by Linda Kuo 

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Submissions are now open for our June 1st issue! 

To submit, email your work to [email protected] on or before May 15th.

April’s issue features artwork by Natalya Serebrennikova as well as an interview with poet and writer Jessie Lynn McMains.

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Our February issue is out now featuring 15 new works of creative writing + this beautiful cover art by Andres Perez. 

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Our first print issue is now available to buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeforeILeaveZine !!!

It’s full of original poetry, short stories, and artwork. We hope you like it.

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I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS BEFORE I LEAVE JUNE 2015 COVER ART KERIN CUNNINGHAM

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"I Want You To See This Before I Leave" is an online literary zine with a purpose.

Our June 2015 issue is out today!

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"I Want You To See This Before I Leave" is an online literary zine with a purpose.

Our February 2015 issue is out right now!

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Check out our December issue!

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Our December issue will be out tomorrow! In the meantime, check out October. 

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Worlds exist within you, searching for a voice, wanting out, asking you to shape your experience into language. Give birth to the words that swarm, create something living where there was once just an empty page. Writing is a physical and revolutionary act. Language can have immense power if you let it. Write with intention. Know your purpose. Before your grand exit, what do you need to say? Think. Let yourself write it.

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