Revisionist is here!

Our new literary magazine featuring female writers, artists, and culinarians has arrived

Hi! I’m Kate. I’m almost a year into my Substack, and I thought I would re-introduce myself. This is a recent picture of me and my little monkey at one of my favorite restaurants in NYC—owned and operated by women of course—Kings;)

Three years ago, having completely lost myself in early motherhood, COVID, and my marriage, I went back to school for creative writing. While there, I not only started to find myself and my voice, I was fortunate to meet incredibly talented female writers telling incredible stories.

The writing and these collective stories saved me.

Now, three years later, I’m divorced (well almost, on January 10th it’s official - the only thing to look forward to on this death march towards 2025) and in a position to help promote female voices in an industry dominated by male editors and male owned publishing companies. With the help of my good friend and phenomenal graphic designer, Scott Long, we recently published Revisionist, a literary magazine by female writers, artists, and culinarians.

At Mise En Place Publishing, we’re featuring the best female writers of our time. Additionally, we’ve included incredible female artists (represented at The George Gallery in Charleston), and talented culinarians to the mix, to make the reading experience palatable to all the senses—something not found in traditional literary magazines.

As Margaret Atwood said, “We were all revisionists; what we were revising is ourselves.”

At Mise En Place, we will continue to rally behind women’s voices and the voices of those marginalized. To read, to write, to create, to learn, to evolve, to listen, to revise…this is how we continue to rise. We hope you will join us, purchase a copy of Revisionist, and support these female artists. Each issue will have a theme, and this year’s theme is home.

In this issue, you’ll discover home through:

· A return to one’s ancestral home, South Africa, with culinarian, WiBi Ashley

· Memories of a childhood home and the figures therein through Jessica Cuello’s poetry

· Defending the home of a blue bird from predators, and in turn, oneself, in “A Caught Bird,” by Amy Collini

· A nostalgic home through a shared love of sweets with a grandparent, by chef and co-owner of Harken Café and Harbinger, Greer Gilchrist

· Allison Gildersleeve depicts the familiar landscapes of home through the forests she encountered and the memory of objects from her domestic spaces

· Friendship as a coveted home in, “Burn,” by Beneth Goldschmidt-Sauer

· Heather Jones uses fabric as a feminist nod to explore domestic space and home

· Artist Magnolia Laurie’s reflection of her childhood home in Puerto Rico

· A psychiatric home after a young woman experiences a psychotic break in “A Different Kind of Home,” a true story by Meg LeDuc

· Vicki Sher evokes the feelings of home through her use layering paper to create spaces that reference the natural world

Here’s to creative experiences that will elicit a new way to think about this illusive thing we continue to search for and call, home.

Thanks for reading…bunny ears for all;)

xoxo,

k