Windhover is dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and discussions of craft that consider Christian perspectives and engages spiritual themes. In the spring of odd-numbered years, select authors have the opportunity to read their own work, attend award-winning authors' presentations, and attend workshops on campus at the biennial Windhover Writers' Festival.

Issues are released each August and each February. Submission periods for each issue are as follows:

February 1 to April 15: August issue

August 1 to October 15: February issue

When submitting your work, please follow these specifications:

• Send one prose piece or no more than five poems submitted in one document. (Works longer than 4,000 words are not considered.) Craft essays should be 2400-3000 words.
• Include a brief cover letter with your name, address, email, the title of your submission(s), and a third-person bio of fewer than 75 words.
• Include your name and email address on each page of your submission(s).
• All works for consideration must be submitted via our online submission manager.
• We do not consider previously published work.
• We do not consider e-mailed or postal submissions.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable provided that you let us if your work has been accepted elsewhere. (Please contact us via email and withdraw your submission from our online submission manager.)

From the editor, Toby F. Coley: “Send us your best. We are looking for writing that avoids the didactic, the melodramatic, the trite, the obvious. Eschew tricks and gimmicks. We want writing that invites rereading.”  

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