Stay Tuned! Submissions for Issue 4 will open soon.

Issue 4

Southwestern Deserts

Submission Cycle Open: March 1st, 2025

Closing: April 16th, 2025

Issue 4 contributors announced: end of July, 2025 

** If the $5 submission fee isn’t feasible or reasonable for you, please shoot us an email. We are eager to take a look at your work  - TheThalweg@gmail.com
 

What we publish:

We are 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.

With Issue 4, we are excited to be publishing an issue with a specific regional focus for the first time! 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 love 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 a different 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:

Each contributor will be compensated with a small honorarium. All profits after the cost of production and distribution, if there are profits, 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. Our paid model core to our work in this industry. We are a small, volunteer-run nonprofit and are always exploring ways to increase our honorariums and support artists in our community.