Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion

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Image is a literary quarterly publishing writing that sustains engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and specialized spiritually focused essays.

Response time info: up to six months

Read the full guidelines at imagejournal.submittable.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsFee: $3.50Pays: $25 per published page, with a minimum payment of $100 and maximum of $400, plus four copies.

Open to: Work must include a sustained engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Image accepts fiction up to 6,000 words and asks that writers include a word count. A Word document is preferred, though PDF is acceptable for special formatting. All work must sustain engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsFee: $3.50Pays: $25 per published page, with a minimum payment of $100 and maximum of $400, plus four copies.

Open to: Work must include a sustained engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Most essays are 2,000–5,000 words, with a 6,000-word maximum. Image welcomes memoir, personal essays, and externally focused essays blending research, journalism, history, or literary writing; it does not publish scholarly or academic essays. All work must sustain engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsFee: $3.50Pays: $25 per published page, with a minimum payment of $100 and maximum of $400, plus four copies.

Open to: Essays must approach their subject from a spiritual or theological angle and engage with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

God In All Things seeks crafted, literary essays about sports, science and nature, food, travel, and the outdoors approached from a spiritual or theological angle. Most essays are 3,000–5,000 words, with some flexibility. Pay is $25 per page plus four copies.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsFee: $3.50Pays: $25 per published page, with a minimum payment of $100 and maximum of $400, plus four copies.

Open to: Essays must approach contemporary arts subjects from a spiritual or theological angle and engage with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Spiritually Attuned Criticism seeks smart, surprising, crafted essays about contemporary music, film, theater, and dance approached from a spiritual or theological angle. Most essays are 3,000–5,000 words, with some flexibility. Pay is $25 per page plus four copies.

otherLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: Not stated.

Open to: Several questions should address the subject’s faith.

Image welcomes email queries about interviews with writers and artists rather than Submittable submissions. Interviews should address the subject’s faith and preferably reflect the arc of a career; typical interviews are about 6,000 words after editing.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsFee: $3.50Pays: $3 per line, with a minimum payment of $100 and maximum of $400, plus four copies.

Open to: Work must include a sustained engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Submit no more than five poems; a Word document is preferred, though PDF is acceptable for special formatting. All work must sustain engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Submission fee: $3.50.

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