Submit Your Work

WE PUBLISH:

  • All forms of expression, including poetry, prose (i.e., fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, scholarly articles, interviews, and reviews), and visual art;

  • Work that reflects our values of curiosity, justice, and community;

  • Work that explores questions of ecology and spirituality from within and outside all religious traditions.

GENERAL GUIDELINES

  • We consider all submissions for publication on our website and/or in our quarterly print issues.

  • Please allow us at least three months to review your submission. Our editors are volunteers with other work, family, and creative commitments. We appreciate your patience as we give all submissions the consideration they deserve.

  • We do not accept previously published work, but we do accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere.

  • Work that has been created, in any part, with the assistance of AI tools is not eligible for submission or publication.

  • Genre-specific guidelines are available below and on Submittable when the submission window opens.

We will consider submissions for our Winter 2025 issue from February 14th through March 1st.

The theme of our Spring 2025 issue is RESILIENCE. Genre-specific submission guidelines are provided in Submittable, linked here and via the button below.

EcoTheo Review invites writing and visual art submissions that respond to the theme of RESILIENCE at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture. Ecological systems are defined by their interdependence and capacity for self-regulation, qualities that allow them to persist in states of flux. Within these systems, each organism—however small—plays a role in maintaining resilience. This constant ebb and flow, the movement between periods of stability and instability, is the essence of ecological equilibrium.

In spiritual terms, resilience means more than survival. It’s the ability to adapt, to thrive amid adversity, and to recognize our place within a vast web of interconnected life—an understanding that we are not separate from the divine. Given this, how do we find our place in the world? How do we understand our purpose, harmony, and dissonance within the framework of ecological resilience? How do we navigate the ever-shifting cycles of change—ecological, spiritual, political, and personal?

For inquiries related to the website or other matters, email our Managing Editor, Landon McGee, at landon@ecotheo.org.

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+ Poetry

Poets must limit submissions to two per calendar year. Each submission may not include more than 3 poems and may not exceed 10 pages total. Poets who exceed the number of submissions per year, the number of poems per submission, or the number of pages per submission will be rejected.

  • Submit poems as a single file.
  • All efforts are made to preserve formatting.
  • Allow 3 months before querying on the status of your work.

+ Prose

We welcome previously unpublished prose up to 5000 words in any genre. For pieces less than 1000 words, you may submit up to three prose pieces at a time.

+ Interviews

We appreciate your interest in interviewing for EcoTheo Review.

We are looking for interviews with writers, artists, and leaders of diverse communities whose work examines and sparks discussion around faith, ecology, and the complexity of the human condition. Interviews EcoTheo has featured include Tess Taylor, Li-Young Lee, Vijay Seshadri, Ellen Davis, Norman Wirzba, Kathleen Dean Moore, Fred Bahnson, Malcom Tariq, Jihyun Yun, and Lauren K. Alleyne.

If you have an interview that aligns with EcoTheo’s mission and focus and that you would like us to consider, please send a query to esteban@ecotheo.org (please indicate whether the interview is complete).

+ Visual Arts

We welcome most forms of visual art, including but not limited to: painting, photography, drawings and sketches, sculptures, and more.

Image submissions must be in either .jpg or .png format. Lower resolution images are fine for submission, but if accepted we will need higher-resolution images for publication.

+ Reviews

EcoTheo welcomes review submissions of chapbooks and full-length collections of all genres (essays, poetry and prose) that intersect with ecological and theological concerns in a broad and capacious sense.

Reviews can be any length, but we are particularly interested in the breadth and depth offered by 1300-1800wds.

  • At the top of your review, please provide the following information:
  • [Book Title] by [Author Name]. [Press] ([Publication Date]). [Pages]. [Price].
  • In your cover letter, please include a brief bio of yourself.
  • For poetry reviews, follow these general poetry citation guidelines.

The reviews editor is happy to work collaboratively with you on formatting and edits, but when citing poetry please make sure you faithfully copy the text as it originally appears and double-check for errors and typos in your quotations. Aim for three to four excerpts of more than three lines in your review.

In terms of review content, we are interested in how you read the work of the book you are reviewing. E.g. What are the text’s concerns? How does it make them visible? Does the text present itself/its argument via sound, image, form, logic? Who is the text’s ideal audience?

Via our Submittable, you can pitch a review, submit a review, or submit an Advance Review Copy for review consideration. Please note that a place on the reviews list is not a guarantee of review, as potential reviewers choose titles from our reviews list.

+ Multimedia/Web Features

EcoTheo Review welcomes submissions of immersive multimedia work for publication online. In these features, visual art, audio, video and text that work together to tell a story or share an idea around EcoTheo's mission of celebrating wonder will be given their own page on EcoTheo Review's website. To submit or pitch a multimedia web feature, contact our web editor, Carter Boyd.

+ Social Justice

In 2020 we launched a new space on our site for considerations of Social Justice. EcoTheo Review is guided by the words of Dr. Cornel West, who says Justice is what Love looks like in public, as well as Dr. Melanie L. Harris, who says that Earth Justice is Social Justice, and Social Justice is Earth Justice. We invite paintings, poems, photographs, essays, and other creative, scholarly responses to the ways environmental justice and social justice intersect. Our digital folios will explore particular aspects of these intersections.