Call for Submissions for Gila Project “Looking to the Mountain” Poetry Collection

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Looking to the Mountain: Sacred Lands, Healing Cultures

Gila Centennial Anniversary in Words and Pictures

Poetry & Photography Anthology

Call for Submissions

This edited Gila Centennial Anniversary Collection of Poetry and Photographs invites submissions of original work celebrating the ancestral homelands of the Gila Wilderness and the sacred union on nature and culture across time and space. 

Please submit up to Five Photographs (Color or Black & White), Art Imagery, Essays (500 words or less) and/or Five Poems of any length for our review.

Our submission period opens August 15, 2024 and closes on November 15, 2024. 

Our editorial team will select work for this edited anniversary volume, and notify writers and artists of our decisions by mid-December. 

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you kindly withdraw your submission. We do not consider previously published work.

Queries and Submission via email to Senior Editor: 

Dr. Michelle Hall Kells

Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, & EcoPoetics

University of New Mexico

Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies 

mkells@unm.edu