{"title":"Journals","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"journals-of-love-literature-issue-1","title":"Journals of Love \u0026 Literature issue 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur inaugural edition \"connection\" celebrates the voices of independent and emerging artists. 200 pages of scribbles and stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #181818; background: white;\"\u003e“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #181818; background: white;\"\u003e – James Baldwin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #181818; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #181818; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eJournals of Love \u0026amp; Literature is an art and literary publication celebrating independent and emerging writers and artists and championing for queer and P.O.C voices. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212121;\"\u003eOur goal is to foster a community of authentic, like-minded people to celebrate what truly matters. We wish to honour the physical vessel of storytelling, the tactile, that assembles itself and becomes something much beyond its own limitations. This is impossible without connection, the theme of issue 1.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e Journals of Love \u0026amp; Literature acts as a meeting ground for all different creative mediums; photography, fictive and non-fictive literature, paintings, music, film, drawings, etc. With the weight and look of a coffee table book, but the readability of a novel on your bedside table, it accommodates itself to a range of different reading habits. A daring take on a traditional journal, it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #212121;\"\u003econstitutes a juxtaposition between highbrow arts culture and the quirky, promiscuity of our emerging generation. Not only a curated collection of creative culture to consume, but a coffee-table staple.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e Love \u0026amp; Literature was created with community in mind, to create a clear space free of ego and greed for fellow soulful creatures to pour themselves into and celebrate what we believe is most important, love. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eEditors:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eMelanie McDacy (director, senior editor)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eSascha Zenari (senior editor, coordinator)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eDrayco Forson (junior editor)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eLili Ramundi (junior editor)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eHanna Arain (junior editor) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eOscar Melder (junior editor, graphic stylist) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.0pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003ePenelope Day (text editing assist)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45324716802297,"sku":"","price":63.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0691\/3140\/3513\/files\/IMG_3836.jpg?v=1723362506"},{"product_id":"journals-of-love-literature-issue-2","title":"Journals of Love \u0026 Literature issue 2","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"776\" data-start=\"264\"\u003eAcross 270 pages, this second edition of \u003cem data-end=\"487\" data-start=\"456\"\u003eJournals of Love \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/em\u003e gathers a chorus of emerging and independent voices to contemplate what it means to belong to one another. 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