Resilience & Recovery
Resilience & Recovery
The New Engagement literature and art journal celebrates and champions the voices of those who have endured and surmounted, or are in the process of facing, hardship. The short stories, essays, poetry, plays, short films, photography, illustrations, and paintings that TNE publishes confront adversity and pain, loss and failure, fear and harm with a steely will, a compassionate tone, and a tender understanding of grief, violation, bereavement, sadness, illness, anxiety, and heartache, and how to defeat—or at least live with— such challenges.
By Mark Elzey
In Mark Elzey's memoir "The Gift," a run-in with a brutal bigot at a movie theater engenders deep revelations and seismic personal growth.
By Jennifer Thompson
Jennifer Thompson's poetry collection reminds us of the difficult moral fact that doing harm is nearly unavoidable, but receiving succor goes some way in mitigating the pain of guilt.
By Sudip Bhattacharya
Ordinary needs and common necessities at the mercy of irrational prejudices and unfounded persecutions.
By Laura Cesarco Eglin
Self-preservation is a gift reluctantly given, a blessing hard won.
By Rachel Cuevas
A clean getaway from the past proves more formidable than originally thought.
The New Engagement
The New Engagement endeavors a novel approach to discovering, introducing, and showcasing writers, artists, and filmmakers, by providing them digital and print platforms, while encouraging and supporting their social-consciousness.