About the Journal
The European Journal for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, sponsored and edited by cooperating associations and practitioners engaged in biblio/poetry therapy, is an online, open access, international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published in a rolling publication system. The journal welcomes original contributions that present new knowledge about the role of language arts and biblio/poetry therapy in education, healthcare, and community building settings.
Papers are welcomed from researchers and practitioners working with language arts and metaphors in the fields of biblio/poetry therapy such as classical bibliotherapy, therapeutic writing modalities, and narrative approaches. Papers from researchers and practitioners who combine biblio/poetry therapy with other expressive arts techniques and modalities are also welcomed. The journal only publishes manuscripts written in English.
Current Issue
Editor's introduction
The year 2026 marks two significant milestones in the life of our professional community. We are looking forward to the third annual conference. It will take place in Canterbury in October 2026. We look forward to welcoming colleagues and audience members interested in bibliotherapy, poetry therapy, therapeutic writing and art therapies.
This issue celebrates the first anniversary of our journal and represents the shared goals, meaningful work and values of the European biblio/poetry therapy community. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the authors and reviewers who have volunteered their time to contribute to the journal over the past year.
Although we still produce the journal on a voluntary basis and receive no financial support, we believe that maintaining open access is important in order to make the journal available to a wider audience.
We aim to create balanced issues in terms of professional level, topics, and the number of selected, peer-reviewed articles. According to our plans, three issues will be published this year. The first will feature the final selected articles from the Budapest conference, while the next two will showcase contributions from the 2025 annual conference in Finland.
This issue presents new theoretical perspectives and methods, followed by practical papers introducing innovative narrative practices and bibliotherapy-based well-being programmes from Belgium, Italy, Iran, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, France, and Poland.
We wish you an inspirational and enriching reading experience.
Judit Béres
(Editor-in-Chief)
