Winter 2026 Special Issue
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
A Special Teaching Issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle
Welcome to the Special Issue
The Dodge calls attention to Palestine as an environmental issue—an occupation of air, water, and land; a forced removal and genocide of its Indigenous population; an irreversible damage to its natural landscape and resources; a violent erasure of its ancestral villages; a persistent violation, exploitation, and continued harm to its wellbeing and ecology at large.
Welcome
Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
A Special Teaching Issue on Palestine and
the Global Indigenous Struggle, with Guest Editor Sara Abou Rashed
Cover art by Haneen Nazzal. Image translation: “I am planted, and there are for me in this land, thousands of seeds.”
Sunday, Jan 18, 2026
Special Issue Zoom
Launch Party
To celebrate the release of our Winter 2026 Special Issue, The Dodge will host a Zoom Launch Party on Sunday, January 18 at 2:00 p.m. EST!
Open to all, this event will include readings and presentations from our contributors featured in Return to Roots: Writing toward Land. To receive the link to the event, please RSVP with the form below.
Open to all, this event will include readings and presentations from our contributors featured in Return to Roots: Writing toward Land. To receive the link to the event, please RSVP with the form below.
Guest Editor
Sara Abou Rashed
Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself. Her writing interrogates exile, memory, war and belonging broadly defined. Sara’s writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, as well as the anthologies A Land with a People, Call the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora and 9-12 ELA curriculum from McGraw Hill, among others. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, Sara’s work has been commended by the UK Forward Prize and was awarded the 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing. A Denison alum and a PhD student in English at the Ohio State University, Sara lives in Columbus, Ohio. Her first book, Theories of Return, is forthcoming from Diode Editions in 2026.
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