Submissions

What is Wayfare?

Wayfare is a publication from Faith Matters that seeks to be a companion and guide on the journey of faith. Our aim is to cultivate within individuals and communities the more abundant life in Christ through art and writing that is leavened with faith, brightened by hope, and deepened through charity.

Wayfare welcomes voices and ideas that transcend, explore, and expand familiar boundaries—we seek after the true, the good, and the beautiful wherever they may be found. 

We publish frequently through online posts, our weekly newsletter, and the semiannual print issues.

See below for further details on how to publish essays, poetry, fiction, music, and art.

ESSAYS

Essay Submissions

POETRY

Poetry Submissions

MUSIC

Music Submissions

FICTION

Fiction Submissions

Visual Art

Artists, we’d love to feature your work in both our print and digital publications.

Please write to wayfareeditor@gmail.com with a link to your portfolio.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

(non-exclusive, inexhaustive, ever-expanding)

  • The experience of religious life

  • Embodiment and anti-human technology

  • Life, mortality, and natality

  • Sacramental ways of being

  • Race and identity

  • Relationship of religion and science

  • Dating, marriage, and parenthood

  • Sexuality and sensuality

  • Secularism and modernity

  • Notions of progress

  • Contemplative practices

  • Material inequality

  • The long arc of life (post-children)

  • Work and labor

  • Pop culture

  • Rites of passage and rituals

  • Leisure in modern life

  • Art production and consumption

  • Relationship of the religious life to politics

  • Food production, preparation, consumption

  • Community formation

  • Transformation (personal, relational, communal, global)

  • Relationship to nature

  • Climate change and environmental stewardship

  • Identity and agency

  • Aesthetics and beauty

  • The virtuous life

  • Chaos, order, and growth

  • Language

  • Our experience of time (past, present, future)

  • History of ideas

  • Mental health, therapy, and psychedelics

  • Travel and pilgrimage

  • Transhumanism

  • Scriptural interpretation

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