Artist/Writer Guidelines
Pilgrimage is dedicated to serving a community of artists, writers, adventurers, naturalists, contemplatives, activists, seekers and tricksters in and beyond the American Southwest. We welcome literary nonfiction and poetry, and favor writing on themes related to soul, spirit, place, and social justice. Each issue strives for an elegance of variation in voice and tone; work that is entirely reverential, for example, will be a tougher sell here than work that also shows the cracks, funny bones, and vital impurities of our lives as spirits-in-place. We can handle pieces as long as 6000 words, but shorter works are easier to include, due to space constraints. Fiction is considered by solicitation only. Literary nonfiction and poetry are read year-round; send what you think might fit, regardless of whether or not it matches an upcoming themed issue. We encourage translations and inter-lingual work, as well as original writing in English. Simultaneous submissions are fine, provided you notify Pilgrimage ASAP if the work is accepted elsewhere.
We publish black and white artwork on the covers and, occasionally, in the magazine's interior. Query first by
before sending art.
All written material must be typed (double-spaced for prose). No email submissions accepted at this time. Please include an SASE for reply only; unused manuscripts will be recycled. Mail all submissions to:
Maria Melendez, Editor
Pilgrimage
Box 9110
Pueblo, CO 81008
Upcoming Themes (meant as springboards, not boundaries)
Fall/Winter 2011: “Feeding”
Deadline April 1
Yes, food, but also sustenance...whose soul do you feed, and who/what feeds yours...and how about breastfeeding lit? Birdfeeder poems? Essays about the National Elk Refuge’s winter feeding program? Literature of witness to hunger? Funny or serious, literal or figurative, all responses to the notion of “feeding” are invited, especially those which attend to the more-than-human world. The poetics of plant food, potash, etc., etc., etc.?
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