Deep Wild Journal

Your path to publication could be Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry, the home for creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads. Our submission window is open until November 30 for your well-made poems, stories, and essays, deepwildjournal.com/submissions/

Deep Wild Journal is Open for Submissions! Until November 30, for our 2023 Issue, to be published next June. We look forward to reading your poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from and about places where there are no roads. deepwildjournal.com/submissions/

Submissions for Deep Wild 2023 open September 1! We seek well-shaped wild words, all genres, infused with the spirit of the backcountry. There are no fees to submit and previously published work is welcome. Visit us at deepwildjournal.com/submissions for full guidelines.

It’s a bit too hot to head for the hills on these August afternoons, and a lot too hot to hike in the desert. Refresh yourself instead with some cool words from Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry in our Summer Swelter Sale. Here are the options: deepwildjournal.com/2022/08/08/dee…

I really can not get enough of this dude..! Thank you @m_garrigan & @deepwildjournal … for making my time “off trail” agreeable

Read, "How to Botch a Funding Award," by Kalle Fox, the third place winner of Deep Wild's Graduate Student Essay Contest now in full on our website. deepwildjournal.com/how-to-botch-a…

When Kalle Fox receives a grant from her graduate program at the University of Montana, her proposal is to head into Mt. Rainier National Park to “study how landscapes shape our perceptions of environment.” But once she is out there, the lessons she learns are a lot different...

For more about the photo contest visit our blog: deepwildjournal.com/2022/07/24/dee…

Announcing Deep Wild in the Wild Photo Contest, 2022! Take a pic of any issue of Deep Wild Journal or Deep Wild Sticker on your wild adventures and post it on Instagram and tag us, or send it to deepwildjournal@gmail.com. Tell us who you are and where the pic was taken.

Delighted to have a poem included in volume 4 of Deep Wild. Such a beautiful issue and I am so grateful this previously published poem was let breathe again🙏 Thank you @deepwildjournal for including my work. #poetry #POEMS #poetrycommunity #writeyourlife @rare_swan_press

Over 300 copies of the 2022 issue of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry are shipping out this coming week, to points near and far and very far (England, Northern Ireland) Visit deepwildjournal.com to join in! Excerpts from the 2022 issue can be read on our blog.

For Father’s Day: Steve Oberlechner’s "Taking the Shot" from Deep Wild 2022. "Perhaps this summer-long hike is an effort to get back to the pleasure I felt sitting in the woods... when I felt no pressure to kill, when there was only his company..." deepwildjournal.com/2022/06/18/for…

My essay about bears will be in the next issue of @deepwildjournal. Looking forward to read the other pieces in this issue.

There is no “pride” felt in this story, no celebration of selfhood befitting LGBTQ+ Month; rather, there’s fear, as two gay women heading into the woods for the weekend are beset by thoughts of other women who have been assaulted and killed while camping. deepwildjournal.com/2022/06/07/out…

Eric Aldrich and his friend Axl on a hike encounter a ranger who warns them of a bear frequenting the place. Axl, who is on a side-trip of his own, blurts out, “What‘s the bear’s name?” Which provokes a reflection by the author in upcoming Deep Wild 2022 deepwildjournal.com

We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 Deep Wild Graduate Student Essay Contest! deepwildjournal.com/2022/05/10/our… Thank you to all who contributed. We enjoyed all your essays and wish we could have honored more of them.

Wildlife biologist Paula MacKay and her husband, on their way into the backcountry to research the elusive wolverine, are stopped short on day one. “Lessons in Survival,” is coming this June in Deep Wild 2022. To learn more and reserve your copy visit deepwildjournal.com.

The book can be ordered by calling the Western National Parks Association at 520-622-6014, or on Amazon. Paperback, 184 Pages. ISBN 9780578821191. amazon.com/Pilgrim-Paddle…

From two-time Deep Wild Journal contributor Deb Liggett comes the good news of her just-released book, Pilgrim, Paddler, Poet: The Ranger Chronicles. Part first-person memoir, part celebration of the natural world, part insider journalism.