Howling Up to the Sky: The Opioid Epidemic

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Pact Press brings you Howling Up to the Sky, the second anthology in a series designed to spark conversation, promote awareness, and generate funds to assist in our battle against addiction. Contained within are throughtful, thought-provoking essays on addiction, recovery, loss and hope by Barbara Lodge, Abigail Warren, Sarah Ghoshal, Ken Benson, Anna Schoenbach, Laura Golden, and Alma McKinley. The anthology also includes a short story by Jenean McBearty and poems by Tom Pescatore, Susan Vespoli, Kerry Rawlinson, Edison Jennings, Cynthia McCain, Brian Koester, Jemshed Khan, Justin Karcher, Nathanael Stolte, Damian Rucci, Will Cordeiro, Larry Thacker, and Luke Muyskens. We are grateful to Catherine McDowell, Executive Director of Roots of Recovery, for her insightful forward.Pact Press is proud, in the sale of this anthology, to support the fine work of Shatterproof in their efforts to assist families and individuals struggling with addiction.

Pact Press, a dedicated imprint of Regal House Publishing, is fervently committed to promoting the diversity of ethnicity and religion, of politics and perspective that enriches and empowers us all. Our Pact to you is to broadcast, proudly and loudly, the voices of those who wish to influence the debate in favor of acceptance, equal rights, respect, reproductive rights, peace, and religious tolerance. We seek rolling submissions of fiction, essays, poetry, anthologies, memoir, and/or interviews on Black Lives Matter, immigration, justice, the Supreme Court, hunger, poverty, homelessness, jobs, education, LGBTQ concerns, health care, and race.