> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Announcing Calls for Issue III: Creation & Festivity - URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/announcements/announcing-calls-for-issue-iii-creation-festivity/ - Published: 2026-08-24T21:30:04.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-24T21:30:04.000Z - Description: Submissions open 25 August — close 25 November - Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA) - Tags: Announcements Thank you to everyone who contributed to *Blue Spring: Recollection & the Interior Life.* Your work gave our second issue its depth and stillness, and we are grateful for the care you brought to it. We now invite submissions for **Issue III: Creation & Festivity.** Ninth Heaven moves according to a calendar of themes, with each volume forming part of a larger cultural record. Our first issue considered suffering, wilderness and eternity. Our second turned toward recollection and the interior life. Issue III now turns toward creation and festivity: toward the wonder of making, and toward the forms of joy through which communities remember and renew themselves. Where the previous volumes often looked toward what is endured, remembered or contemplated, this issue asks what may be made, discovered, cultivated and celebrated. ⟶[**Submit to Issue III: Creation & Festivity**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/submissions/) --- ## On the Theme ### Creation To make anything is to take part in an older making. Every craft begins in attention to an order we did not invent: the grain of the wood, the measure of a line, the weight of a word. What is a craft, if not a kind of devotion? What is knowledge, if not wonder before the order of things? We invite work on the poetic wonder of knowledge; natural philosophy as the contemplation of order; artistic and technical creation as collaboration with the divine; craftsmanship and ingenuity as spiritual gestures. ### Festivity And what is made is meant to be shared. A feast is one of the oldest ways a people remembers who it is. Every festival is a remembrance: of a harvest, a deliverance, a covenant; a day lifted out of ordinary time and set apart by joy. We invite work on feasts and festivals as acts of remembrance and joy; on celebrations that renew cultural identity and express the unity of community. --- ## Beyond the Issue Theme *Creation & Festivity* belongs to a wider constellation of questions that continues throughout Ninth Heaven. Our perennial themes remain present in every volume: what it means to be human; poetry and the pursuit of beauty, truth and longing; the literature that has formed civilisations; art and criticism; metaphysics; and the meeting of faith and reason. Submissions need not treat Creation or Festivity in isolation. We are especially interested in work that allows these themes to meet the journal's enduring concerns: creation and human dignity, craft and metaphysics, knowledge and wonder, celebration and faith, festivals and cultural memory, artistic inheritance, or the relationship between ingenuity and civilisation. ⟶[**Explore the full Thematic Calendar**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/thematic-calendar/) --- ## Submission Details **Opens:** 24 August 2026 **Closes:** 24 November 2026 **Theme:** Creation & Festivity ⟶[**Submit here**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/submissions/) We welcome poetry, fiction, essays, art, and sound, from new and established writers alike. We review submissions on a rolling basis and aim to respond within 4–6 weeks. Submission [guidelines](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/guidelines/), including rights and licensing terms, and further information are available through the link above. --- ## While the Season Turns Submissions close in three months. Until then, there is much in the journal to enjoy. ⟶ Read [**Issue II: Blue Spring**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/issue-2-blue-spring/), our most recent issue. ⟶ Explore the [**Library of Civilisation**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/) — texts and artefacts from thirteen civilisations. ⟶ Visit the [**Games Room**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/games/) and our [**Education**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/education/) pages. ⟶ Listen to our [**podcasts**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/podcasts/), and see our [**competitions**](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/competitions/) for the latest calls. And when your work is ready, we will be glad to receive it. --- Thank you again for being part of Ninth Heaven. We look forward to reading your work for *Creation & Festivity,* and to continuing this quiet correspondence between thought and beauty. — The Editors, Ninth Heaven