​WordSwell is a literary organization and journal created to support, broaden, and invigorate the literary and arts community.

Current Publication:
​Volume Four, Winter 2023

Featured Artist: Carl Scharwath

Deep, Heartfelt Honesty:
what WordSwell offers in facing ​the difficult world we now inhabit:

In a world of increasing complexity, competition, and alienation, but also a world of unfolding possibilities, fulfilling experiences, and human connections, here you will find personal essays, stories, and poems that cut through the posturing, the commercializing, and the dehumanization. Our writing displays the vibrant energy of the creative unconscious, what WordSwell founder, Clive Matson, calls the "Voice of the Crazy Child," and aspires to the authenticity that William Carlos Williams describes, people "die miserably every day for lack of..." Humanity is desperately in need of revising its own soul. We all know this is true. WordSwell seeks to contribute to the conversation.
"Making the private world public." 
​–Allen Ginsberg

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"The most personal is the most universal."
​–Carl Rogers

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