Arcana 🔮 Letter from the Editors 📜

This Letter from the Editors is featured at the front of the third edition of our literary journal, The Elixir Verse Equinox: Arcana, coming this Spring.

Available in bookstores on March 20, 2026.

Hope is a quiet, steady force. Sure, it may sometimes be loud, but more often than not it’s held silent inside hearts and shared tentatively amongst whispers. It’s the invisible thread that holds us together and the gentle hands that push us forward. It’s our wisest words. Our deepest wishes. It is the unseen flame which ignites revolution.

Hope is the essence of what this book embodies.

As we’ve continued another journey around the sun in a world rife with hopelessness, we’ve sought out quiet verses of resilience, soft spells of determination, and short tales of transformation. As writers, we know the alchemy it takes for an idea to become a story, and as editors, we hoped to find pieces that reflect the magic that went into them. What evolved from the submissions pile was something more lovely than what we could have imagined—it became a guide on how to live each day more magically. This collection is for those who’ve always known there must be more.

More than the mundane, more than the explained, beneath the visible and beyond the knowable—a deeper purpose, a sublime spark. Each piece of this edition embodies the quest for greater connection—for hope. Through poetry and prose, it reveals the core of who we are and what we seek to be at Elixir Verse Press; our desire to transcend the ordinary and to fortify the minds and souls of our readers.

With this book in hand, we encourage you to seek moments of quiet. To settle in and sit with stillness. To take solace in wonderment. To let yourself feel the Arcana and know that the power evoked in these pages is yours to wield.

To let yourself hope.

Magically,

The Elixir Verse Equinox: Arcana features the work of twenty contributing authors, all listed below!

Contributing Authors

Allison P. Brown, Raymond Brunell, Loralee Clark, Rachel Grate, DK Jammin’, Mackenzie Kae, Spencer Keene, Baylee Less, Ashling Meehan-Fanning, Jenny Purdy, S. E. Roberts, F.T. Rose, Han Na Shin, Will Staveley, Doug Stoiber, Rowan Tate, Kendra Whitfield, Lee Whitman-Raymond

Our Editors

C. Brennecke and Elayna Mae Darcy

📸 Featured photo graphic designed by Elayna Mae Darcy, featuring their original photography of their handwritten version of the letter contained within this post. © 2026 Elixir Verse Press.