Artist/Writer Guidelines

Pilgrimage welcomes previously unpublished creative nonfiction, fiction, translation, and poetry year-round via Submittable during our open calls. We also feature one visual artist per issue, with full color artwork on the covers and black and white artwork in the interior. Send what you think might fit, regardless of whether or not it matches an upcoming themed issue.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, provided you notify us if the work is published elsewhere. Our response time is approximately 8-12 weeks after the closing of an issue’s theme. Each prose submission should have a 6000 word limit. Please send up to six poems per submission.

Online submissions are free. For snail mail submissions, please include an SASE for reply only. Unused manuscripts will be recycled.

Juan Morales, Editor
Pilgrimage Magazine
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Department of English and Foreign Languages
2200 Bonforte Blvd.
Pueblo, CO 81001.

Volume 44 Issue 1 & 2: Healing

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This issue has been a long time coming, and we thank you for rolling with us while we worked to complete “Healing.” To make up for the long wait, this double issue is one of our biggest ever and a proper way to celebrate the healing facilitated by our talented writers. We’re slowly catching up and adapting to the changes in the world of publishing, and we appreciate the grace we received while completing our final decisions, the careful assembly of the order, and the design work done by our Editorial Assistants here at CSU Pueblo.

For “Healing,” we are thrilled to feature photography by Jim Ross— thoughtful shots of coneflowers, roses, thistles, and swallowtails. These images cause us not only to slow down and reflect on the beauty we need, they also show us the sharp parts of ourselves as we see in nature. We are fragile and also guarded when we listen to the landscape, alive around us.

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