Deep Wild Journal

20/02/2025

The no-fee Deep Wild Journal 2025 Student Writing contest is open for submissions until March 1. Contest theme: "Waking to the Wild"...

The no-fee Deep Wild Journal 2025 Student Writing contest is open for submissions until March 1. Contest theme: “Waking to the Wild”

10/02/2025

A love song for this place that we all call home, from Vermont writer Dian Parker

From Costa Rica to Vermont, Dian Parker celebrates the “extravagant diversity” of our wonder-full world.

10/02/2025

From Costa Rica to Vermont, Dian Parker celebrates the "extravagant diversity" of our wonder-full world....

From Costa Rica to Vermont, Dian Parker celebrates the “extravagant diversity” of our wonder-full world.

26/01/2025

We seek your creative work in any genre on the theme of "Waking to the Wild."

The Deep Wild JournaL 2025 Student Contest is open for submissions until March 1.

26/01/2025

The Deep Wild JournaL 2025 Student Contest is open for submissions until March 1....

The Deep Wild JournaL 2025 Student Contest is open for submissions until March 1.

21/01/2025

Deep Wild Journal seeks color cover art and B&W drawings for our 2025 issue!...

Deep Wild Journal seeks color cover art and B&W drawings for our 2025 issue!

12/12/2024

Students, let your light shine!...

Students, let your light shine!

05/12/2024

Deep Wild Journal remains open for submissions until January 1...

Deep Wild Journal remains open for submissions until January 1

03/12/2024

Congratulations to our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees!...

Congratulations to our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees!

27/11/2024

Give your friends, or yourself, the gift of wild words! December 1 is the last day of the Deep Wild Fall Sale....

Give your friends, or yourself, the gift of wild words! December 1 is the last day of the Deep Wild Fall Sale.

23/11/2024

Poets, essayists, fiction writers: The window to send your creative work to Deep Wild Journal to be considered for our 2025 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....

Poets, essayists, fiction writers: The window to send your creative work to Deep Wild Journal to be considered for our 2025 issue is open for just ONE MORE WEEK, until December 1. We seek work …

16/11/2024

WORDS FROM WILD PLACES readings this coming week in Fruita, Grand Junction, and Moab!...

WORDS FROM WILD PLACES readings this coming week in Fruita, Grand Junction, and Moab!

16/11/2024

WORDS FROM WILD PLACES! Deep Wild Journal editors Rick Kempa and Heidi Blankenship and contributor Peter Anderson will puit some wild words into the air this coming week in Fruita, Grand Junction, and Moab. Come on out if you can if you live in those parts, or if you know someone who does, please help spread the word. It's going to be, well, wild!

11/11/2024

DEEP WILD ON TOUR IN NEW MEXICO!

Local contributors to Deep Wild Journal will be the featured readers at events in Taos, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque this coming week:

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, at SOMOS Bookstore in Taos (108 Civic Plaza Drive), from 6 to 7, featuring Ed Brown and Tim Raphael

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 at Evoke Gallery in Santa Fe (550 S. Guadalupe St), from 4:30-5:30, with Santa Fe poets Anne Haven McDonnell and Nancy Beauregard

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 at Bookworks in Albuquerque (4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW), from 6 to 7, with local writers Natalie Cunningham, Aaron Denham, and Sarah Scruggs.

Deep Wild Journal editor Rick Kempa and contributor John Nizalowski of Grand Junction will also be on hand.

If you happen to live out that way, come check us out if you can. And if you know someone else who does, kindly invite them on our behalf. Thanks!

For more info, click a link:
TAOS https://deepwildjournal.com/words-for-the-wild-taos.../
SANTA FE https://deepwildjournal.com/words-for-the-wild-santa-fe.../
ALBUQUERQUE: https://www.bkwrks.com/event/deep-wild-writing-backcountry

06/11/2024

On a field trip to the Upper Basin of the Columbia River, Washington State professor Jolie Kaytes and her students see first-hand the consequences of industrial pollution for the land and people, and envision ways to change course.

photos provided by Jolie B. Kaytes On a field trip to the Upper Basin of the Columbia River, Washington State professor Jolie Kaytes and her students see first-hand the consequences of industrial p…

05/11/2024

Bring some wild words into your world! Deep Wild Journal's Fall Sale has our best prices of the year.

Rock bottom prices in Deep Wild Journal’s Fall Sale!

01/11/2024

The editors of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry invite students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies to submit work in any genre to our no-fee 2025 Student Contest. Submissions will be accepted from November 1 through March 1. Winners will receive cash awards and publication. The contest theme is "Waking to the Wild." We seek work in any genre that conveys the awe, the gratitude, the passion to protect, and/or any other feelings and thoughts that arise when you awaken to the wild world.

The editors of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry invite students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies to submit work in any genre to our no-fee 2025 Student Contest. Submis…

21/10/2024

"My face surely told you this is not how I wanted to die." from Eric le Fatte's "The One Log Bridge Over Railroad Falls."...

“My face surely told you this is not how I wanted to die.” from Eric le Fatte’s “The One Log Bridge Over Railroad Falls.”