Call for Submissions

for the March 2026 issue

Call for Submissions

Each issue of the Deep Times Journal has a different flavor. The theme sometimes emerges from the submissions themselves, other times, it is a response to what is happening in the world or something brought up by WTR facilitators. In all cases, it is discussed and decided collaboratively within our team of dedicated volunteers.

Submission Guidelines

Harvesting the Gifts of the Ancestors

Joanna Macy, our beloved Work That Reconnects root teacher, died in July 2025 at age 96.  Her passing evoked beautiful reminiscences and celebrations in her honor, re-consideration of her role in our collective and individual lives, and deepening commitment to going forth to support social transformation. Joanna has become an esteemed ancestor for so many people around the world.

The editorial team has chosen “Harvesting the Gifts of the Ancestors” as the theme of the March 2026 issue of Deep Times (that’s also the name of a key WTR practice in Deep Time).  We are seeking articles, poems, and artwork that explore how our ancestors live in us today, and how they may be offering us their gifts and wisdom to guide us in the Great Turning. We invite you to help us to create a feast from this harvest as well as to collect seeds for the future. We also seek submissions exploring how our ancestors call on us to heal the intergenerational trauma arising from colonialism, racism, patriarchy, and power-over politics and economies.  

This issue will have a special section for short pieces (less than 200 words) on how the writer imagines and/or plans to carry on Joanna’s legacy in their life and work.  We invite you to write about what her passing has ignited in you, what she is now calling forth from you.  As Ian Goh wrote in a tribute to Joanna, we all go forth now as “fractals of Joanna.”  

Please review our submission guidelines before sending your submission. Send an editable document to: [email protected].

The deadline for submissions to the March 2026 issue is January 12, 2026.

Past Calls for Submissions & Themes

Call for Submissions September 2025

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Call for submissions for March 2025

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September 2024 Theme

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March 2024 Theme

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This Issue is dedicated to the behind the scenes and reactions to the Gaian Gathering hosted by The WTR Network in Otober 2024

September 2023 Theme

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The theme for this September 2023 issue, Metabolizing Grief to Nurture the Great Turning

March 2023 Theme

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For this March 2023 issue of Deep Times, the editorial team decided to have an open theme. Yet, like in previous issues for which we didn’t have themes, a theme emerged from the submissions. Guess what? It’s emergence!

September 2022 Theme

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For our next issue, in September 2022, we are seeking contributors from all over the world, particularly outside the US, to show how the...

March 2022 Theme

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In this issue we examine patriarchy as one of the intersecting sub-systems of  the “power-over” paradigm, which has deep and wide roots and branches in the idea of separation from the land and the superiority of humans.

September 2021 Theme

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The editorial team chose our theme for this issue,  “Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Earth,” because we wanted to explore what might be called the “spiritual” roots of the Work That Reconnects.

March 2021 Theme

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For the March 2021 issue, the editorial team invites explorations in essays, poetry, and images about building resilience out of personal and collective trauma, especially that experienced by BIPOC, women, LGBTQ2 people, people with limited income, and people with disabilities.

October 2020 Theme

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Hi all, We are finishing off our first round of reading and scoring and commenting on submissions. There is a whole range of submissions, some...

March 2020 Issue Theme

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We invite submissions for the February 2020 issue of Deep Times journal.   Some prompts for article ideas are: Bringing the Work That Reconnects...

August 2019 Theme

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This issue of Deep Times explores the theme of “Living into the Great Unraveling,” as well as how the Work That Reconnects can better serve our communities through this time.

February 2019 Theme

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To stay on the path, we learn to accept the pain as evidence of our deep caring for life—and the Work That Reconnects helps us do that.

July 2018 Theme

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This issue of Deep Times journal focuses on the theme of “Deep Time”

February 2018 Theme

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For this issue, we did not specify a theme for our contributors who offered a variety of perspectives around the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects, as well as articles on the Evolving Edge of the Work, Resources, and Network news.

August 2017 Theme

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Dedicated to the concerns of social and racial justice, systemic racism, white privilege, and anti-oppression work.

May 2017 Theme

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This issue of Deep Times moves around the spiral of the Work That Reconnects, brings news from the Network around the world, and features articles from white folks who are working to liberate themselves and their communities from the colonial white supremacy mindset.

Fall 2016 Theme

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Interviews with some of the participants who met on Whidbey Island over Labor Day weekend to raise our awareness about how the Work has sometimes excluded the experience of People of Color, and needs to be decolonized.