Organizer Information: 

Wellspringwords® is a spiritual development platform supporting writers & artists with Sacred interior-world cultivation through the magic and power of words. Through exploring our Literary Anthology, Creative Enrichment Studio, and Podcast, we hope you will find yourself at home individually and in community.

This is a space dedicated to holistic healing and liberation through narrative reclamation — mind, body, heart, and Soul. We know that the world needs authentic creative expression for humanity to come to a harmonious state. We also know that AI and robots will not facilitate the organic connection, healing expression, and transformative creation human beings are spiritually designed to create. We are proudly an AI-free zone. Wellspringwords® is here to help us remember, viscerally and deeply, that our creative power and wisdom are inherent to us — this creative power and wisdom need to be expressed, not only for our individual benefits, but for the health of the human species and its evolution.

Title & Description: 

Wellspringwords® Literary Anthology | Issue 4: “Love, Surrendered.”


Love is the inimitable, ineffable force that moves us, creates us, and evolves us. However, it is not only a simplistic “love” that we wish to explore in Issue 4 of our publication. It is love’s varying and multidimensional forms — desire, lust, self-love, self-preservation, orgasm of many varieties, empathy, compassion, grace, rage, sorrow, and more — that we wish to explore.

And deeper, it is not only forms of love, but the surrendering to these forms explored, that we wish to exhibit.

What is it to surrender, and surrender to love?
What are the visceral, subtle, and lived challenges of surrendering?
What does love teach you as you surrender deeper and deeper into its alluring force?

We joyfully welcome poetry, personal narrative, fiction, and experimental writing, on the theme of “Love, Surrendered.” Let your writing be soulful; let it be deep. Write from a deeper place within your body, psyche, and heart. Let your mind rest and allow language to flow from a messier, more intelligent, purer, and most honest place within your multidimensional being.


In the end, we’ll choose a few pieces from each genre to publish in Issue 4, our Autumn/Winter 2025 issue.

We’re also welcoming submissions for authentic and uniquely expressive visual art for the cover of the issue, under the same theme.

Please read through the guidelines and guidance before you submit: https://www.wellspringwords.love/submissions

Category: 

  • Writing
  • Visual Art

Eligibility:

  • Women of color
  • International
  • LGBTQIA

Location:

  • Online  

Key Dates:

  • Submission window: August 1 – September 30, 2025, at 11:59 pm PST
  • Writers will be notified if their submission is selected by November 1, 2025
  • Issue 4 will launch in November 2025

Application Fee: 

  • There is a USD $5 fee for each submission
  • And a USD $10 fee for each writing submission requesting editorial feedback
  • Payment is made via credit/debit card or PayPal

Awards & Benefits:

  • Explore your authentic Self, your wisdom within, and your creative expression through writing.
  • Opt to receive editorial feedback from an experienced editorial team as you develop as a writer.
  • Add to your portfolio of published work.  
  • Contributors are eligible to become a Guest Editor for future Issues of the publication.
  • Join the Wellspringwords community of writers and artists from around the world.

Contact Information:

Additional Details: 

Link to submit: https://www.wellspringwords.love/submissions

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