One more week to share your wild work!

Poets, essayists, fiction writers, artists: The window to send your creative work to Deep Wild Journal to be considered for our 2024 issue is open for just ONE MORE WEEK, until December 1.

We seek work that conjures the experiences, observations, and insights of backcountry journeys. By “backcountry,” we mean away from paved roads on journeys undertaken by foot, skis, snowshoes, kayak, canoe, horse, or any other non-motorized means of conveyance. We are open to a wide spectrum of carefully-crafted work, from the personal to the political. By “personal,” we mean work that not only relates the experience of backcountry journeys but also in some way reflects upon the journeys. By “political,” we mean work that, while maintaining a backcountry perspective, addresses and confronts the social, economic, and environmental issues of our times.

We welcome previously published work and don’t charge submission fees.

Before sending us your work, please take some time to get a feel for who we are and what we do by, reading selections from past issues on our blog or in our archive. Please also read Guidelines on our Submittable Page. Thank you, and have a wild day!