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.
A Note on AI: Wayfare is deeply interested in the way humans create, and curious about how generative AI will be involved, now and in the future. We hope to promote the best of human creativity and relationality, while being open to the new norms that will develop with use and mindful of the inevitable trade-offs of new technologies. Good writing shapes the writer as much as the reader. Further, the spirit of an essay lives between hearts as much as within hearts. We therefore want our contributors to only use AI in ways that strengthen the souls and human relationships of both reader and writer—and then to be clear about those ways. If you have used AI in the creation of your work, please include a statement in your submitted work describing how you used AI. We may ask follow-up questions in the spirit of collaboration.
Privacy Policy: All writing that names identifiable living individuals will be published with the consent of the individuals.
ESSAYS
POETRY
MUSIC
FICTION
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