Authors — Creative Nonfiction
Donald Miller — author of Blue Like Jazz, a trailblazing writer for Christians of the emerging, postmodern stripe.
Dan Wakefield — a leading American writer since the 1950s, he has written on spiritual autobiography
and other topics.
Terry Tempest Williams — naturalist and writer of creative nonfiction, she shares landscape and culture
through story.
Lauren Winner — Christian urban sophisticate who, in her breakthrough memoir Girl Meets God, described her conversion from Judaism to Christianity.
Authors — Fiction
Walker Percy Project — an "Internet Literary Center" for the late, great, Catholic Southern writer.
Julianna Baggott - poet and novelist who, in the words of the New York Times, offers a "brand of witty
psychological observation that is dark and corrosive."
Authors — Poetry
Oliver De La Paz — young Filipino poet whose prose poems have been described as a “lucidly inventive
allegory of migration, exile, and belonging.”
Dana Gioia — a nationally recognized "poet, critic, and literary anthologist," and the current Chairman of
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Thomas Lynch — poet, essayist and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan.
Featured as Artist of the Month for December 2005.
Floyd Skloot — poet and essayist, whose work draws on his experience surviving a near fatal brain virus.
Featured as Artist of the Month for February 2005.
Stephanie Strickland — her interests are in art and technology, how they echo, oppose, and illuminate
each other.
Jeanne Murray Walker — “weaves poignant, curious, and disturbingly intimate poetic narratives of characters whose lives have led them to extraordinary cross roads." Featured as Artist of the Month for February 2000.
Book Publishers
Counterpoint Press — a small company that publishes "serious literary work," including that of writers
like Geoffry Hill and Wendell Berry.
Luci Shaw — poet and scholar, whose passion for the Christian imagination has made her a long-time
supporter of Image Journal.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux — one of the great literary publishers, with a tradition that includes many
Christian authors, such as Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton.
Graywolf Press — one of the nation's leading independent literary publishers.
Square Halo Books — a small publisher that is quickly becoming a leader in relating contemporary art and literature to the Christian faith
Paraclete Press — An ecumenical publisher of books on Christian spirituality, critically acclaimed sacred music recordings, educational videos, and quality choral sheet music.
Bookstores
Eighth Day Books — the online presence of something we like to call "The Bookstore of Heaven," with
a dazzling array of books in theology, literature, culture, etc.
Literary Journals
Georgia Review — one of the best literary quarterlies, featuring stories, book reviews, poems, essays, and visual art.
The Hudson Review — literary quarterly dealing with how "literature bears on the intellectual life of the time and on diverse aspects of American culture."
The Paris Review — the most famous of all literary quarterlies, where both established and emerging writers seek to get published.
Ploughshares — excellent literary quarterly based at Emerson College.
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative — examines the genre of nonfiction narrative and its relevance to American culture.
Second Spring — British Catholic journal attempting to bridge the gap between faith and culture.
Shenandoah — focuses on "work which… aims to bear witness to something larger than the individual."
Smartish Pace — a handsomely designed poetry journal (with a terrific website) that also features interviews.
Zeek — Painter Wayne Forte calls Zeek "a whimsical Jewish version of Image." From Zeek's mission statement:
"We welcome the heretical, honor the sincere, and are generally bored by in-jokes, apologetics, and irony."
Literary Organizations
The Academy of American Poets — an extensive database of poets and the sponsor for many national poetry events and awards.
Associated Writing Programs — seeks to "advance the art of writing as essential to a good education."
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses —"develops each member's publishing capacity… and promotes shared learning across the entire field."
Literary Festivals
Baylor University Art & Soul Conference — lively annual literary festival with outstanding speakers and panels.
Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing — the Mother of All Christian literary festivals, held in even- numbered years.
Literary Retreat Centers
Laity Lodge — located in dramatic river gorge in the Hill Country of Texas, Laity Lodge offers a number of
retreats for writers and artists.
Literary Workshops & Study Programs
Poetry Retreats — Led by David Impastato and Peggy Rosenthal, these retreats "open up great poetry as a resource for personal spiritual growth."
thewritersworkshop.net — Online writing classes offered by Seattle author Nicholas O'Connell, an accomplished writer and friend of Image.
Online Literary Magazines & Sites
storySouth.com — An internet magazine for creative writing from the new South.
Poetry Daily — A continuous anthology of contemporary poetry. Poetry Daily brings you a new poem each day, selected from current lit mags and books. It includes both new and established voices.
Nimble Spirit — A site that offers a wide range of reviews of literature and art dealing with literary spirituality.
