Before and after the pivotal Dobbs decision on June 24, 2022, Christine Maul Rice, founder and editor of Hypertext Magazine, saw an influx of submissions expressing literary outrage. Fiction and nonfiction writers, and poets, were clamoring to be heard above the din of attempts to overturn progressive movements in US America and return us to a time of normalized hate, misogyny, and injustice. Chris realized the time was ripe for a collective literary response in the form of an anthology: The Overturning. Chris then invited Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, host of Sunday Salon Chicago, and Virginia Bell, Editor of RHINO Poetry, to help recruit submissions from disparate communities and across genres. All of our organizations are based in the greater Chicago area.
The Overturning is a direct literary response to this intersectional crisis.
