A Song of Dawn
By Alan Hartley In shadows deep, where sorrows weep, A soul adrift, its secrets keep, The night’s embrace, a heavy shroud, Yet hope persists, a fragile cloud. The moon, a witness, whispers low, “Life’s tapestry, a vibrant flow, Each thread, a chance, a fleeting dance, To seize the day, to take a chance.” For suicide, […]
Kindred Souls
By Alan Hartley In the quiet chambers of the heart, Where shadows linger, and fears depart, There blooms a garden, tended with care, Where friendships thrive, beyond compare. When storms assail, and skies turn gray, Friends gather close, their warmth at bay, They weave a tapestry of solace and song, A lifeline strong when everything […]
Gardening: A Healing Path
By Alan Hartley In the quiet of soil, where roots entwine, A sanctuary blooms—a refuge for the mind. Gardening, a balm, a gentle embrace, For those who battle storms within their space. 1. Seeds of Hope In rows and furrows, seeds nestle deep, Their promise hidden, secrets they keep. For the mentally weary, these tiny […]
Farmer Gracy
By Erica Crompton In the land of tulips and windmillsWhere Farmer Gracy’s roots extendA sanctuary for plants and bloomsWith love and care, they tend Each bare root a promise of lifeReady to blossom and growIn Farmer Gracy’s hands they thriveA beauty only nature could bestow Today we walk through the warehouseFilled with colors and scents […]
My experience with ‘Access the Dales’ Terrainhopper
By Paul Nicholls The TerrainHopper, which Yorkshire charity Access the Dales puts on for wheelchair users free of charge, is an impressive all-terrain wheelchair designed to provide accessibility in rugged environments like the Yorkshire Dales. Here are some highlights I found: Off-Road Capability: The TerrainHopper excels in challenging terrains, including deep mud, sand, snow, and […]
A day in Clitheroe
By Erica Crompton In Clitheroe, where history meets the day,Paul and Erica set out, in their own special way.With wheels that glide on paths so clear,They explored the town, with nothing to fear. The castle stood proud, on the hill so high,With accessible paths that reached the sky.They wandered through tales of knights and lore,In […]
An accessible road-trip to Amsterdam
Through the rolling hills of Staffordshire we ride,In a Dacia, our trusty steed by our side.A wheelchair friendly road-trip, an adventure so grand,As we make our way to Amsterdam, across the land. The wind in our hair, the sun on our faces,We travel with joy to new and exotic places.The road may be long, but […]
Hopezine the book out now
Hopezine is a small, printed independent magazine and blog and now book – right here! – by me, Erica Crompton, a journalist with schizoaffective who survived a suicide attempt. Launched in November 2018 at an NHS suicide prevention conference at the Bet365 stadium, Hopezine aims to share stories from people who have survived adversity in […]
Hopezine’s Editor’s new art book
Can art change how we think about this thing called ‘schizophrenia’? Are all artists ‘mad’? Are people with schizophrenia more creative than those without? A freelance journalist with a history of paranoid schizophrenia aims to address these questions and more in ‘A look at schizophrenia in art’. With a master’s degree in creative writing, and […]
Summer’s Hopezine 2024 is here!
Editor’s letter Lately, I’ve been feeling content and have let coincidence into my life – something that feels very spiritual to me. I believe that we can find a great deal of strength and hope, not just in spirituality but also in the lights that illuminate the way for atheists and agnostic people, too. So […]