Themes for 2008 issues of Pilgrimage

Spring: Shadow and Light
Submit by March 1st; Issue comes out in mid-April

We’ve chosen an intentionally open-ended theme for this issue. Whether your take on the theme is literal/physical, psychological, spiritual, or…?, we’re interested in seeing your personal essays.

Summer: The 1960s
Submit by July 1st; Issue comes out in mid-August

So much of what happens in American culture still seems to be in reaction to things that happened forty years ago. We’re looking for personal essays, poems, maybe a piece of fiction or two about experiences during the 60s or experiences related to lingering memories and myths of the 60s.

Fall: Deep Democracy
Submit by October 1st; Issue comes out in mid-November

Deep democracy is an attitude that focuses on the awareness of voices that are both central and marginal. The notion of deep democracy suggests that all voices, states of awareness, and frameworks of reality are important. Allowing oneself to take seriously seemingly unimportant events and feelings can often bring unexpected solutions to both group and inner conflicts as well as political conundrums. Tell us how this approach to living may have played out in your own life or community.

Artist/Writer Guidelines

Pilgrimage is dedicated to serving a community of artists, writers, adventurers, naturalists, contemplatives, activists and seekers in and beyond the American Southwest. We welcome creative prose and poetry. We favor personal non-fiction on themes related to soul, spirit, place, and social justice. We can handle pieces as long as 6000 words, but shorter is better. Poems that we can fit on one page work best given space constraints.

Our interests include wildness in all its forms; inward and outward explorations; home ground, the open road, and the back of beyond; service, witness, peace and justice; symbols, story, and myth in contemporary culture; struggle and resilience; insight and transformation; wisdom wherever it is found; and the great mystery of it all. We like writing that aims to tell the truth and tells it from the heart. We enjoy good storytellers. And we always appreciate a good sense of humor. All written material must be typed (double-spaced) and submitted along with a self-addressed stamped envelope to:

Pilgrimage
Box 696
Crestone, CO 81131