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Vita Poetica Journal

• Website: https://www.vitapoetica.org/store/p/fifth-anniversary-issue-all-formats
• Print magazine: No (online quarterly publication)
• Submissions: Accepts creative work explored through a spiritual lens, including fiction, multimedia, reviews, interviews, and contemplative practices. Currently closed for poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual arts (reopening March 1, 2025). Looking for work engaging with religious faith or broader inquiry into meaning and human experience. Appreciates work that is open and thoughtful rather than didactic. Seeks diversity in experiences, backgrounds, spiritual perspectives, genres, and art disciplines. Welcomes cross-genre, cross-discipline, or multimedia experimentation. Does not accept previously published work, including web-published or self-published material. Simultaneous submissions welcome with notification.
• Other information: Asks for first-time publication rights; all rights revert to author/artist after publication. Response time up to 3 months for creative submissions, about 1 month for queries/pitches. Uses Submittable for fiction and multimedia submissions. Reviews and interviews require queries via email. No payment offered. Run by a nonprofit organization with a small team of volunteers.
• Genres: Fiction, Poetry (temporarily closed), Creative Nonfiction (temporarily closed), Visual Arts (temporarily closed), Multimedia, Reviews, Interviews, Contemplative Practices
• Publication frequency: Quarterly
• Founded: 2020
• Editors: Caroline Langston, J. Morris, Julie Wan
• Contact: Submissions via Submittable