Where We Meet Issue #1 | Where We Are Magazine

Meet us Where We Are, to converse, create, reflect, and grow. 

This is a shared space for creative expression, cultural reflection, and collective care. Each issue holds space for where we find ourselves: in culture, in nature, in our communities, and in moments of healing.

Through art, writing, exhibitions, and shared documentation, we explore how people tend to the world, and one another. We are here to follow the journey of how communities care and evolve over time.

Where We Are Magazine (Issue One) | OPEN CALL 

Submissions are now open for the first issue of Where We Are Magazine, launching in March 2026.

Where We Are was created as a place to slow down and reflect through creativity, to hold context, lived experience, and conversation in a form that can exist beyond social media. This magazine is about documenting the moment we are living in, through art, writing, and shared creative exploration.

The theme for our first quarter is Culture, explored through a different lens each month. Contributors are invited to respond to one month, multiple months, or the broader theme as a whole.

Quarterly Theme: Culture

January: Creativity & Culture

How does creativity shape culture?

How does culture shape what we create, value, or feel safe expressing?

What role does art play in preserving, questioning, or transforming culture?

February: Language & Culture

How does language influence connection, belonging, and identity?

What is lost, protected, or reshaped through language?

How do words, symbols, and silence shape our relationships with one another?

March: Nature & Culture

How does nature influence culture, tradition, and survival?

What relationships exist between land, environment, and identity?

How do we carry nature into our creative practices, memories, or rituals?

What We Are Looking For:

• Visual art (drawing, painting, photography, collage, mixed media, digital work)

• Writing (essays, reflections, short-form writing, poetry)

• Community collage contributions created through our monthly prompts

• Experimental, process-based, or in-progress work

• Work centered on culture, identity, justice, language, disability, care, nature, resistance, and lived experience is welcome.

Original work only, no AI-generated content.

FREE TO SUBMIT 

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS WELCOME

18+ YEARS OF AGE

Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2026

Issue Release: March 31st, 2026

Submit your work here:

https://www.confluencecommunity.org/where-we-are-magazine

Where We Are Magazine is an invitation to participate thoughtfully, experiment honestly, and contribute to a shared record of where we are, individually and collectively.