Call for Submissions! Letters to Tomorrow.
Until April 3rd, 2026, we are inviting submissions for our seventh collection, centered on open letters centered on connection. Contributors are encouraged to write letters to real or imagined recipients: loved ones, communities, strangers, ancestors, places, environments, or even objects. Letters may forgive, grieve, celebrate, question, tell stories, or challenge ideas—always rooted in the deeply human need to reach one another.
The collection welcomes both traditional and experimental forms. Submissions may be typed or handwritten and can come from individuals or collaborators. As a multimodal journal, it also invites creative interpretations of the letter format, including poetry, visual art, music, film, and hybrid artistic works.
Ultimately, this project seeks thoughtful, respectful contributions that embrace vulnerability and reflection, using the intimacy of the letter to foster understanding, solidarity, and meaningful connection.
Read the full Call-for-Submissions!
Our Sixth collection is now live! “Traversing Cultural Landscapes: Refugee and Immigrant Experiences in Boise” was a collaborative advocacy project undertaken by students in the spring of 2024, which the Writing For Change Journal is revisiting. During a moment like this, it’s important to pause and listen to the stories of folks who once arrived here as refugees who are now our friends and neighbors, and who enrich our communities in countless ways. This is especially important as the Idaho Legislature is currently debating several newly introduced anti-immigration bills, and mischaracterizing Boise’s longstanding refugee resettlement programs as “demographic replacement.”
As always, for those works published by the Writing for Change Journal, dignity and respect for all people is our constant. The articles assembled here cut through the bad faith rhetoric that demonizes refugees and immigrants, and invite us to listen. Blending research, translated interview material, and storytelling, these articles are designed to deepen our understanding–and to double down on the values that initiated resettlement programs in Idaho 50 years ago.
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Press!
“The Writing for Change Journal reveals new collection topic: ‘Conservation and belonging in the outdoors'” By Olivia Brandon, The Arbiter, Nov 9, 2023
The Writing for Change Journal is a multimodal publishing space, and therefore welcomes submissions beyond traditional written texts like essays and other forms of nonfiction writing like prose, interviews, and personal narratives, and can include photography, visual and performance art, podcasts, film, and combined mediums and those yet to be imagined. Creative and collaborative submissions are always welcomed. Look for our call-for-for-submissions twice annually.
A note on what we publish: Civility, dignity, and respect for all communities are the minimum. We select submissions for publication that we feel adhere to the collection’s theme and guidelines, and those written in good faith that attempt to make visible that which has been obscured, that meaningfully attempt to bridge understanding and community connection. In the spirit of rising above the narrow and divisive framings of local and national political discourse, this journal thrives on topics of change that recognize our shared humanity. Submissions that maintain ideologies or statements designed to make people feel unwelcome, unsafe, or lesser will not be tolerated and will immediately be rejected. We can and should examine such statements, through a critical framework of inquiry and empathy, but discriminatory language of any kind—based on race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.—does not have any place in this journal.