The Write Launch

Winter 2024: Climate Crisis
"We, who are alive today, must grasp the Climate Crisis as an existential moment to face with clarity and resolve, thus preparing humanity for a world that we ourselves would not recognize at the turn of the 21st century."
Glenn Schiffman

1600 Scientists: A Jeremiad

Holly Willis

Joshua Tree Project

Stephen Newton

The Cave of Altamira

Marianne Dalton

Chasing Paradise

Deborah Filanowski

“Where are Tolkien’s Ents?”

Jennifer Phillips

“Touring the Forest” and “Leaning Over the Rails”

Russell Willis

“Earth Cries and the Oceans Catch the Tears,” “Reservoir No More,” and “Summer — Memory or Prophecy?”

Jaime Gill

Together

J. M. Platts-Fanning

Beatniks of the Kerosene Age

Maite Russell

Ocean Sleep and Turtle Light

Benjamin Hollo

You-you

Tinker Babbs

Weathering A Storm

Marie-Louise Eyres

“Brood X”

Patricia Franz

“something small has died”

Mary Beth Keenan

“With Love, I Fall”

Robert Eugene Rubino

“Home, Sick”

The theme of the Write Launch Winter Quarterly is the Climate Crisis, and we are looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, essay, and art that explore your experience of, and response to, this crisis.

Such exploration could include a poetic response to climate change or a futuristic story about rising seas that destroy a coastal city. Or consider an essay about a nation state whose population has experienced  climate change or a work of art—drawing, painting, or photography—previewing life on Earth in thirty or fifty or eighty years.

We, who are alive today, must grasp the Climate Crisis as an existential moment to face with clarity and resolve, thus preparing  humanity for a world that we ourselves would not recognize at the turn  of the 21st century.

In the Winter 2024 quarterly issue, we are calling for work exploring the theme of the Climate Crisis: causes, impacts, and consequences.

Submissions for the Winter 2024 quarterly are open December 13, 2023, through December 28, 2023, in the following categories: poetry, fiction, essay, and art.

Submissions not specific to the climate crisis theme will be open for previously unpublished work in the following categories: poetry, fiction, book review, and art.

The theme of the Write Launch Winter Quarterly is the Climate Crisis, and we are looking for submissions in poetry, fiction, essay, and art that explore your experience of, and response to, this crisis.

Such exploration could include a poetic response to climate change or a futuristic story about rising seas that destroy a coastal city. Or consider an essay about a nation state whose population has experienced  climate change or a work of art—drawing, painting, or photography—previewing life on Earth in thirty or fifty or eighty years.

We, who are alive today, must grasp the Climate Crisis as an existential moment to face with clarity and resolve, thus preparing  humanity for a world that we ourselves would not recognize at the turn  of the 21st century.

In the Winter 2024 quarterly issue, we are calling for work exploring the theme of the Climate Crisis: causes, impacts, and consequences.

Submissions for the Winter 2024 quarterly are open December 13, 2023, through December 28, 2023, in the following categories: poetry, fiction, essay, and art.

Submissions not specific to the climate crisis theme will be open for previously unpublished work in the following categories: poetry, fiction, book review, and art.