Submissions: PAUSED FROM MAY 16-AUG 16 2026
PLEASE NOTE: WAYFARE IS PAUSING SUBMISSIONS FROM MAY 16 TO AUGUST 16, 2026. THE SUBMISSIONS FORM WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME. IT WILL REOPEN ON AUGUST 17.
We are still accepting submissions this summer for the short play competition! For more details, click here.
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 explore, expand, and transcend 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 submit essays, poetry, fiction, music, and art.
Style Guide: As you prepare something to send us, read through this Short Style Guide for Writers.
A Note on AI: Wayfare does not publish words generated by AI technology. However, Wayfare does not object to the appropriate use of AI as an aid for writing. Read the full policy for more details.
Privacy Policy: All writing that names identifiable living individuals will be published with the consent of the individuals.
Response Time: After submitting your essay, expect to hear back from our submissions team within 12 weeks.
ESSAYS
POETRY
MUSIC
FICTION
THEOLOGY
VISUAL ART
Artists, we’d love to feature your work in both our print and digital publications.
If you would like your art to be considered for use in future publications, please submit a link to your portfolio below. Notify our art director Candace Brown at candace.eli.brown@gmail.com with subject: Wayfare Art Inquiry.
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