Stay Tuned!! Issue 4 is coming soon!
Issue 4
Southwestern Deserts
What we publish:
We are always seeking short stories, essays, poetry, prose, the first chapter of your sci-fi novel, photographs, prints, illustrations, comic strips, paintings, or any other printable ways you metabolize your experience within wild landscapes. The focus of Issue 4 will be Southwestern Deserts
We highly recommend spending some time with our archive or reading our current issue to better understand if your work is a fit for our publication!
We are particularly interested in the following:
Creative work that reflects on wild landscapes and livelihoods
Contributors who, in some way/shape/form, make their livings or their lives outside. We have loved publishing creative work by wilderness guides, beekeepers, poets, fisherpeople, photographers, farmers, educators, activists, artists, boaters, caretakers, biologists, ranchers, carpenters, illustrators, climbers, academics, trail crew, and others.
Contributors with a secondary medium who are seeking more opportunities to publish/share that side of their work—are you a scientific illustrator who also writes poetry? Thrilling—send us your poems!
Collections of work, multimedia or single medium. We love publishing a series of poems by one poet. Have more than one painting or photograph to submit? Do it! We’re interested in the spaces between pieces; the way an artist is in conversation with themselves through their pieces.
Your weirdest stuff. Give us surreal maps. Strange plays. Lyric essays. Nature-based flash horror. High concept visual poems. Sheet music.
With your submission please include a short bio and a sentence or two about how you feel your work resonates with our publication.
After your work is submitted, it will be reviewed by a small team of rotating editors. Contributors will be notified within three months of the submission deadline.
Submission guidelines:
Written work should be submitted as a .doc, docx., or .pdf
Visual work should be submitted as high resolution (300 dpi) JPEGs, PNGs, or TIFF files.
A note on our financial structure and ethos:
Chosen contributors will be compensated with a contributor award. All profits after the cost of production and distribution will also be split evenly among the issue’s contributors. We honor the labor and value of art and writing and are grateful to those who entrust us with their work. We are a small, DIY project founded and run by two seasonal workers, and profit margins in print media are often meager, but we do our best to monetarily compensate our contributors.