Submissions for our next issue close February 28, 2023

The theme for our Spring/Summer 2023 Issue will be: Open to the Air:

… ruin everywhere, yet as the fallen roof
leaves the sealed room
open to the air,
so, through our desolation,
thoughts stir, inspiration stalks us
through gloom…
[from the opening to The Walls Do Not Fall, by H.D.]

We have been pondering how setbacks and catastrophes, despite the appearance of ruin everywhere and desolation, have also left us “open to the air.” What do these lines from H.D. stir in you?

Whatever your genre, we are interested in work in which the person’s encounter with the world, whether in joy or sorrow or conflict, is made radiant. We like both tradition and experimentation, as both are aspects of the same creative action. Whatever you do, don’t be tame or timid. Push us to our own edges, where we can look out at the infinite.

Submission requirements:

Submissions to Convivium may include up to five poems or works of visual art. Fiction and non-fiction submissions should be under 4,000 words.

You may e-mail submissions to convivium.journal@gmail.com. We ask that you include a short author bio in the body of your e-mail.

As all work is blind-reviewed by our editorial committee, please send your submission as an attachment with no identifying information on the body of your work. We do not accept previously published work, but we do accept simultaneous submissions and ask that you inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Submission Guidelines