This press publishes work about difficult things. Some of it deals with suicide, self-harm, addiction, chronic illness, or the machinery that fails people in crisis. We link here from those pieces rather than interrupting them, because a poem should be allowed to finish.
If you are reading this because something you just read landed too close: that is a reasonable thing to happen, and there is somebody available to talk to right now.
988
Call or text 988, any time. In the United States this is the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; in Canada it is the 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline. Both are free and confidential, 24 hours a day.
US callers can also chat online at 988lifeline.org. Service is available in English and Spanish with interpretation in over 240 languages, and there is a videophone line for Deaf and hard-of-hearing callers who use ASL. Veterans can press 1. Canadian service is available in English and French at 988.ca.
SAMARITANS — 116 123
Call 116 123 free from any phone, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The call is free from landlines and mobiles and does not appear on your phone bill. More at samaritans.org.
LIFELINE — 13 11 14
Call 13 11 14 for 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention.
TEXT INSTEAD
In the United States, text HOME to 741741 to reach Crisis Text Line — free, confidential, 24/7. In the US and Canada, 988 also answers by text.
FIND A HELPLINE
findahelpline.com lists vetted free crisis lines in over 130 countries, searchable by country and by what you are dealing with. If none of the numbers above apply where you are, start there.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Call your local emergency number — 911 in the US and Canada, 999 or 112 in the UK and Ireland, 000 in Australia, 112 across the EU.
We are a literary press, not a clinical service, and nothing here is medical advice. This page exists because publishing work about crisis carries an obligation to say where help is. The lines above were verified when this page was written; if you find one out of date, tell us and we will correct it.