Wonderground Issue Four Submissions

ISSUE FOUR: Family/Tree

PITCH DEADLINE: 30 May, 2022
COMMISSION CONFIRMATION: 24 June, 2022
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 01 August, 2022

The fourth issue of Wonderground explores questions of kinship, legacy, connection and trees. Always trees. Trees as symbols, metaphors and beings. Trees as language (do you know the word library originates from the Latin liber, meaning the inner bark of trees?). There is much in this topic that is beautiful and complicated and we are interested in exploring it all. Particularly the in-between places; the topics, subjects, people and ideas that are less expected and obvious, more surprising and enchanting. We want to be amazed, inspired, excited. We’re looking for intimacy and expansiveness. We want to feel things both heavy and light. And, goddam, we want/need to laugh.

The Wonderground editorial team are looking for engaging and original text based works that explore the issue theme within the context of landscape, ecology, gardening, design and culture.

Read more about Issue Four, and what we look for in submissions here, and submit your pitch via the form below.

Only submissions lodged via this online form will be considered for Wonderground Issue Four. Please do not pitch via email. Thank you.

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What is the nature of your pitch? *

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Cover Letter (max. 300 words). Within your cover letter please address the following prompts: What topic are you writing about and why? What will your insight reveal? Why are you the best person to write this piece? Why is it a good fit for Wonderground? *

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Please upload your pitch as an editable word document (preferably Microsoft Word). Format:

Include your full name in file name
12pt Times New Roman
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Ideally, please keep your pitch to a few paragraphs. However, it is hard sometimes to know what to you want to say without writing the entire piece. We do accept full-length drafts.

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Are you able to supply imagery to accompany your piece? If so, please upload 2-3 low resolution files. (Max upload size: 5MB)

If you have a photographic/artistic series, or body of work, that speaks to the Wonderground Issue Three theme (Desire Lines), please provide us with a 100-200 word overview of your work and it's resonance with the theme. *

Please share up to 10 low resolution images of the photographic/artistic work you would like to pitch for publishing in Wonderground Issue Three. (Max. upload size: 10MB) *

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wonderground and for making the effort to submit a pitch to us. We cannot wait to read it.

Due to the inverse relationship between the quantity of submissions we receive (a lot) and the size of our team (tiny) we are unable to respond individually to all pitches, and cannot offer personalised feedback.