Pilgrimage

07/22/2024

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for your continued patience as we work through your submissions to Pilgrimage. We received over 700 pieces to consider, which is a thrilling first for us! We're writing to share some updates and to also, first and foremost, apologize for not reaching out with news sooner.

Pilgrimage is a labor of love, and this past year has been a tough one. Now, we're excited to share that we will finish reading all submissions this summer and will release our next issue in the fall. We will be in touch with final decisions as soon as possible. If your work has already been accepted elsewhere, congratulations on finding a home for your work! If you withdrew for other reasons, we are sorry that we missed out on your writing. Please note, we are not open for submissions, and we are catching up on submissions we've already received.

This upcoming issue will be my last issue as the editor. I will be stepping down after serving for 11 years because of some changes in my personal life and I feel it best to step aside. It is my hope that Pilgrimage can find new leadership and energy to keep it going as strongly as possible. It’s been a true honor to serve as editor for this magazine. Being a part of this community has taught me so much over the years and has given me so many opportunities to connect with so many talented and generous writers. I have always done my best to keep Pilgrimage going and to help it be the best it can be, through some difficult times.

With my departure, Pilgrimage needs a new editor(s) and home. We are grateful to CSU Pueblo, who has been a great source of support for so many years. We hope to keep Pilgrimage going with new leadership, and some members of the editorial team have expressed a desire to stay on with the right circumstances. Pilgrimage is a 501c3 and has some small resources to help with a transition into its next iteration. We are open to the changes that can help keep it going. If you are interested or represent an institution that could be a new home for Pilgrimage, please send us an email for more information at [email protected].

Since 1976, Pilgrimage has been a literary magazine that has published with a focus on story, spirit, witness, and place in and beyond the American Southwest. Here's to one more issue with its current team, and we hope that Pilgrimage can live on and move forward!

Thank you for your support of Pilgrimage now and over the years.

Best,

Juan

11/08/2023

Missed us?

Hello wonderful authors/contributors/supporters! We have the website updated now to show our current hot issue 'Healing'!

This update also comes with quicker accessibility when it comes to ordering copies. There are now underlined and highlighted links to lead you to the ordering section of the website!

Don't want to order? That's okay! You can still support us by going to the website! Read excerpts from 'Healing' before you purchase it and learn more about the process behind the issue.

https://www.pilgrimagepress.org/index.html

Keep those fingers nice and warm in the upcoming cold season by creating!

-Pilgrimage Team

10/11/2023

Wow!

We feel the love over here at Pilgrimage! After this second shipment we have already placed another order for more issues. You guys have almost sold us out! Not that we are complaining of course👀

With this second wave sent out, we hope more and more people enjoy the work our contributors and the hours our teams spent with their pieces.

If you, or others, wish to read the issue or others, please use the link below!

http://www.pilgrimagepress.org/order.html

Either state you would like the current issue, or Vol. 44 1&2.

Thank you all for the wonderful reception of our issue!

With our hearts full,
Pilgrimage Team

10/01/2023

Hello, Hello!

Pardon our lateness as we've been busy with matrimony!

Happy Belated Release Day!

We have sent out copies of our most recent release to our contributors and they are loving it! *Insert air horns here*

If you too wish to read the trials, tribulations, and celebrations we ourselves have come to know and love within this literary journal, please feel free to use the link below and choose our current issue for purchase!

Link: https://www.pilgrimagepress.org/order.html

With our full hearts here as the Pilgrimage Crew, we thank everyone for their help along the way to make this issue a reality.

To many more!

08/14/2023

Last call for , so we're closing this Friday, August 18th. Keep them coming! https://pilgrimagemagazine.submittable.com/submit

08/01/2023

We’re still taking until August 15th. Keep them coming! https://pilgrimagemagazine.submittable.com/submit

07/03/2023

We're open for submissions! Visit our Submittable and send your best work until August 15!

Pilgrimage welcomes previously unpublished creative nonfiction, fiction, translation, and poetry submissions via Submittable and snail mail during our open calls. Please be sure to submit to the correct genre with your submission. We generally feature one artist per issue with full color artwork on....

04/28/2023

Happy Thursday from the Pilgrimage Team!

Welcome to our fourth and final poetry prompt for National Poetry Month! So sad to hear this go but so happy to see what's next! That's why we want to hear about transitions!

This final week, all you have to do is write a haiku about transitions!

As always, feel free to create your own post on any social media! Just be sure to use or tag us so we can see everyone's pieces!

Good luck, have fun, and thank you to everyone who joined us in the fun!

Pilgrimage Team

04/21/2023

We’re excited to announce that we have finally completed all submissions for our upcoming “Healing” issue. For those of you that withdrew your work before we could consider it, we’re sorry that we missed out, and we apologize to everyone that had to wait excessively long for our decisions. We’re grateful for your patience and the opportunity to read all your beautiful writing. We are restructuring our procedures and expanding our editorial staff to avoid these delays in the future. Stay tuned for updates and announcements!

—The Pilgrimage Team

04/21/2023

Happy Thursday from the Pilgrimage Team!

Welcome to the third poetry prompt that we have for National Poetry Month! For this week's prompt we want to hear about the flora of the world!

Create a poem of any type/format that involves your emotions or moments that involved plant-life! Today's a great day for this prompt, so feel free to be as creative as you'd like!

As always, feel free to create your own post on any social media! Just be sure to use or tag us so we can see everyone's pieces!

Good luck and have fun!

Pilgrimage Team

04/14/2023

Happy Friday from the Pilgrimage Team!

As we are reaching the end of this week, we thought it would be great to announce that this upcoming Monday (April 17th) Oliver Baez Bendorf will be in Pueblo, CO hosting an event at the CSU-P campus!

Bendorf will be hosting a workshop event titled, "List, Litany, Lightning" at 1PM and will later in the day be reading from his most recent releases at 7PM!

Both events will be free for the public, have copies of books available for sale, and will be taking place in the same spot throughout the day: the LINC X Presentation space on the second floor of the LARC building.

Feel free to swing by and have a wonderful weekend!

Pilgrimage Team

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