The Awakenings Review

5 Forest Hill Dr., Suite 201

Glen Ellyn, IL  60137

Phone: (630) 469-1567 Fax: (407) 210-9630

E-mail: AwakeningsReview@aol.com

Web: www.TheAwakeningsProject.org

ISSN: 1529-9805 Founded: 2000 Issues per year: 1 to 2 Distributors: The Awakenings Project Copy Price: $16 Subscription (Individuals): $32 (two issues) Subscription (Libraries): $52 (two issues)

Publisher’s Description: The Awakenings Review is a voice for people with mental illnesses and a media through which they can see their literary works and creative endeavors published. Founded in 2000 as a cooperative undertaking between the Chicago-based Awakenings Project the University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, since its inception The Awakenings Review has been published and edited entirely by people with psychiatric disabilities. As a general rule, The Awakenings Review does not discriminate against a writer or artist for not having a mental illness. Many contributors are family members of the mentally ill or friends or therapists. But in the Summer 2003 edition, all contributors had either depression or manic depression.

Over the centuries it has been well established that people with mental illnesses are artistically talented; or put the other way, many celebrated writers, poets and artists have been afflicted with these diseases. The Awakenings Review is not so proud to say that it regularly discovers great talent among its contributors, but at the very least The Awakenings Review does demonstrate that people with serious mental illnesses can edit, write, and manage a quality literary magazine.