Libre is a mental health literature & arts magazine based in Mississippi, beckoning toward all aspects of Deep South experiences, then beyond them, holding within its blue palms a glitchy ideal for community that spans the local and univeral. Despite its deep-fried foundation, the little blue brain’s gone global in a matter of months. With the help of some pocket change, it hosts contributors as far away as Africa and England. Tentatively founded in May 2024, Libre saw exponential growth over the summertime, became less a “girl with a blog” variety of creative pastime and folded itself into the foundations of something deeper, perhaps life-altering. Its roots are young and strong. Its impetus was pain, its vehicle toward creation the desire to establish a safe space on the internet for neurodiverse writers and trauma victims to come together virtually in order to pay tribute, safely practice, and celebrate the diversity of artwork encapsulated by the Outsider.

Libre hopes to be a positive, genre-busting, quiet (though courageous) influence on the literary world. 

The magazine is in online format, but does offer PDF versions of its issues, with hopes of small print batches in the future. It publishes on a weekly, rolling basis, while also tri-annually holding themed calls for submissions. Libre is currently taking submissions for its third issue: CINEMA, and casts its net wide in genre, accepting all forms of prose (short story, flash fiction, narrative essay, memoir), poetry, and artwork of all kinds (paintings, sculpture, digital, music, photography).