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)
Summer/Fall 2010: "Atmosphere"
Think of both our physical atmosphere (air, weather, climate disruption) and the figurative sense of the word: "surrounding influence, mental or moral environment." Better yet, imagine where/how these two interplay. Also: the joint movements of air and spirit live in the word's etymology, which derives from a base that implies blowing wind, inspiration, and spiritual arousal. Don't forget breath and breathing, shared across species. I will consider work for this issue through May 15, 2010.
Winter 2010: "Between the Dead & the Living"
Charles Darwin's journal expresses delight and wonder at similarities between South American fossil species and living South American animals. He's certain "this wonderful relationship in the same continent between the dead and the living" will, more than any other line of inquiry, illuminate the mystery of "the appearance of organic beings on our earth and their disappearance from it." What links between the dead and the living should we celebrate/fear/elevate/bury? Try, among other things, tales of fossil hunting, ancestor recovery up and down the Americas, archaeological and psychological digs (Freud linked the two), and the spirituality and weirdness of time. I will consider work for this issue through September 15, 2010.
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