Submit Your Work

We consider submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art that explore questions of ecology and spirituality from within and outside all religious traditions. We are delighted by thoughtful art, compelling stories, and bewitching poems that reflect our values of curiosity, justice, and community. We consider all submissions for publication on our website and/or in our quarterly print issues.

We will consider submissions for our Winter 2024 issue from October 15th through October 31st.

The theme of our Winter 2024 issue is WHOLENESS. Genre-specific submission guidelines are provided in Submittable, linked below.

EcoTheo Review invites writing and visual art submissions that respond to the theme of Wholeness at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture. Ecologically, wholeness is complex and profound; ecological systems are inherently interdependent, self-regulated, and greater than the sum of their parts. Organisms play a role in maintaining the balance of the overall ecosystem, adapting to change, oscillating between stasis and instability, and demonstrating wholeness in action. Spiritually, wholeness is appreciated by acknowledging the interconnectedness of all things and the presence of the divine. How can we explore our own place and purpose, our harmony and dissonance, our balance and instability, through the unity of creation and desire for completeness, especially on the heels of change and cycles of seasons, ecological and spiritual, political and personal?

EcoTheo Review appreciates the trust involved in our relationships with authors and readers. We know how difficult it can be to share work, especially of a sensitive nature. If the work you are sending us depicts traumatic events, whether personal or historical in nature, we invite you to consider including a Content Warning for our editors. Should we choose to publish such work, we want to demonstrate care for our readers as well, and our Publication Contract will include an opportunity for you to offer a Content Warning. These will be included when we publish the work, online and/or in print, as well as when we share the work through our social media accounts. We are grateful for the opportunity to consider your work.

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

Please allow at least three months for us 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.

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

+ 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.

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.