Announcing Calls for Issue II: Blue Spring
Submissions open 2 November — close 11 December
Thank you for contributing to Blue Winter: Suffering, Wilderness & Eternity. Your work gave depth and clarity to our first issue, and we remain grateful for the spirit of thought and beauty you brought to it.
We now invite submissions for Issue II: Blue Spring — Recollection & the Interior Life.
Where Blue Winter turned toward endurance and exile, Blue Spring turns toward renewal, remembrance, and interior stillness.
⟶ Submit to Issue II: Blue Spring
On the Theme
Blue Spring — Recollection & the Interior Life
Recollection
Cultural memory and ancestral reverence. Sacred landscapes, saints, and their legacy. The rediscovery of forgotten texts, nostalgia for transcendent beauty, and memories that awaken longing for what lies beyond the material.
The Interior Life
Silence and solitude as hidden sanctity. Domestic spirituality and quiet virtue in the ordinary. Hesychasm, inner stillness, and the unseen transformation of the soul.
Submission Details
Opens: 2 November 2025
Closes: 11 December 2025
Theme: Blue Spring — Recollection & the Interior Life
⟶ Submit here
Submission guidelines and further information are available through the link above.
Thank you once again for your contribution to Blue Winter. We look forward to your work for Blue Spring, and to continuing this quiet correspondence between voices.
Chidinma Nwanoka
Director of Communications
Ninth Heaven Literary & Arts Journal