DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 22.
Calling All Retreat House authors, poets, photographers, and artists!
House of Faith is accepting submissions through Wednesday, November 22 2023
Reveal Party at Retreat House: Friday, December 8, 2023, 4:00 p.m.
Can you believe we are publishing our 17th book? Submissions may speak to one or more themes and written in any style. Essays are limited to 2700 words.
Artwork is limited to high-resolution (600 dpi) grayscale photographs or photographs of original artwork. Full color photo submissions for cover art are welcome.
Themes can include:
House and Home: What does it mean to feel at home? Is home a building, a place, a community? Is it a relationship with God or Self or the natural world? What is the relationship between house, home, and faith?
Faith: What does faith mean for you? Why does faith matter? How does faith manifest in your life—connection to your body, to Self, to others, to the natural world, to God?
God: What does God mean to you? Why does it matter to be connected to God? How does the connection or disconnection from God impact your life? How do you reconnect to God when you feel disconnected?
Interfaith/Interspiritual: What does it mean to share your faith with others and to learn about the faith of others? (How) do you integrate faith traditions?
Faith and Healing: How does faith help us heal? Do you have a story where faith really made a difference?
Photos: We love family or personal photos that relate to your stories! We can do some basic retouching for old photos, and we’ll send you a copy. We can’t use photos from the internet because as published books, we have to be careful with copyrighted works.
Just a note for our new authors. . . . Our books focus on personal experiences, poetry, faith journeys, and perhaps a light essay. There is plenty of disagreement about faith “out there,” “in here” we want our books to inspire and uplift, to comfort and provide a way forward, to bridge and connect us with others.
Outreach: We are committed to reaching out to faith communities beyond those represented by Retreat House covenant partners. If you know of someone from a non-Christian faith tradition, we would love it if you would invite them to participate; or, pass their name along to Gretchen for a personal invitation.
Email: GretchenMartens@gmail.com
Author Fee of $100 defrays the publication cost and entitles authors and artists to up to 10 books; additional books may be pre-ordered at the author rate of $5 per book. After the initial print run, books are $10.
Discount for first-time authors: $50 fee. Scholarships are available on a first come-first served basis by contacting Lil Smith, Scholarships must be approved before you submit. Receiving a scholarship in the past does not guarantee receiving a scholarship for this book.
Donations to the scholarship fund or full author sponsorships are gratefully accepted.
Ready to submit? Questions on submitting? Nervous as a first-time author? Contact Gretchen here.