Call for WWGT Our Spaces & Our Art
Submissions open until April 15, 2026
When We Get Together to Talk About God . . . Our Spaces
is a project that seeks to find the true meaning of our spirituality in South Florida. As Queer folks, we find our own families. As people of color, we have often had to leave our spiritual knowledge behind or covertly practice our ancestral spiritualities.
In this project, we will be excavating the spiritual characteristics of Our Spaces in South Florida, including Opa-Locka, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Miami Beach. There are elements of spirituality everywhere. In Liberty City, one of the most underserved communities is named Oshun Village. What does it mean for us to have these Orishas watching over the well-being of our community? There needs to be better acknowledgment of the spiritual reality and deities all around us. Through archival research, interviews with fellow practitioners, community spiritual leaders, discussions with local historians, and the gathering of spiritual creations by folks in South Florida, we seek to open channels of communication that allow us hold and share ancestral wisdom and spiritual understanding, while growing in relationship with ourselves, our ancestors, and our communities. Of course, calling back to our other homes: Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Antigua, Brazil, Ghana, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Honduras, Benin, Nigeria…
What is a spiritual space in South Florida, the Caribbean, and throughout the Diaspora?
Send us your photography, music, art, films, poems, and prose on the connection between Our Spaces and spirituality.
Real recognition of these spaces will lead to better representation and respect for ancestral wisdom and the people who hold it. With your contributions, we will encourage this through creating resources (online and in print) for our community, past, along with future, and current; the future elders and ancestors of South Florida. We hope this project will inspire others to connect to their own ancestral practices and spiritualities and each other.
“When two or more people come together to talk about God…That’s Church.”
All selected works will be included on the www.whenwegettogether.com website.
Additionally, works that are selected to be featured in the When We Get Together to Talk About God . . . zine will receive a 50-dollar honorarium.
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When We Get Together to Talk About God . . . Our Art
is a project that seeks to find the true meaning of our spirituality in South Florida. As Queer folks, we find our own families. As people of color, we have often had to leave our spiritual knowledge behind or covertly practice our ancestral spiritualities.
Often, our spirituality finds its way into our art and creations, harking back to the storytelling tapestry work, statues of veneration, and ritualistic beading of our ancestors.
What does it look like to connect to our spirituality in creation?
Whether that be indigo print making, lineage research, growing herbal remedies in the garden, or even embodying the movements of our ancestors in dance and hearing their music through the beating of the drums.
Through archival research, interviews with fellow practitioners, community spiritual leaders, discussions with local historians, and the gathering of spiritual creations by folks in South Florida, we seek to open channels of communication that allow us hold and share ancestral wisdom and spiritual understanding, while growing in relationship with ourselves, our ancestors, and our communities. Of course, calling back to our other homes: Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Antigua, Brazil, Ghana, Nicaragua, Bahamas, Honduras, Benin, Nigeria…
Send us your photography, music, art, films, poems, and prose on the connection between Our Art and spirituality.
With your contributions, we will encourage this through creating resources (online and in print) for our community, past, along with future, and current, the future elders and ancestors of South Florida. We hope this project will inspire others to connect to their own ancestral practices and spiritualities and each other.
“When two or more people come together to talk about God…That’s Church.”
All selected works will be included on the www.whenwegettogether.com website.
Additionally, works that are selected to be featured in the When We Get Together to Talk About God . . . zine will receive a 50-dollar honorarium.
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Guidelines for Submissions:
When We Get Together to Talk About God… (Poetry)
SUBMISSIONS will be open through April 15, 2026
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS (POETRY):
1. Submit up to 5 poems at a time.
2. Preferred formatting is a standard 12-pt font, but experimental forms are welcome.
3. We accept previously published work (as long as you have retained ownership/our publication does not violate any other agreements).
4. Start each poem on a new page and include titles if available.
5. Include a short bio/artist statement.
7. All selected works will be included on the www.whenwegettogether.com website.
Additionally, works selected to be featured in the When We Get Together to Talk About God... zine will receive a $50 honorarium.
8. Any work that uses AI must be identified and will not be accepted.
9. All languages are welcome.
Submit Poetry
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When We Get Together to Talk About God… (Prose)
SUBMISSIONS will be open through April 15, 2026
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS (Prose):
Some examples:
Personal essays
Excavative Research
Narrative Nonfiction
Short Fiction
1. Submit up to 10 pages. (Only Pieces under 2000 words will be considered for the WWGT Zine, but longer pieces may appear online.)
2. Preferred formatting is a standard 12-pt font, but experimental forms are welcome.
3. We accept previously published work (as long as you have retained ownership/our publication does not violate any other agreements).
4. Include a title page with your name and word count.
5. Include a short bio/artist statement.
7. All selected works will be included on the www.whenwegettogether.com website.
Additionally, works selected to be featured in the When We Get Together to Talk About God... zine will receive a $50 honorarium.
8. Any work that uses AI must be identified and will not be accepted.
9. All languages are welcome.
Submit Prose
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When We Get Together to Talk About God… (Visual Art/Sound/Other Media)
SUBMISSIONS will be open through April 15, 2026
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS (VISUAL ART/OTHER MEDIA):
Submit photo and illustration files in one of the following formats only:
● TIF, JPG, PDF, MOV, MP3, MP4: photographs, scanned illustrations, and line drawings, music, film. Please provide the highest resolution images possible.
● Do not submit any images saved in MS Word, PowerPoint, or Open Office.
1. Submit up to 5 images/pieces at a time.
2. We accept previously published work (as long as you have retained ownership/our publication does not violate any other agreements).
4. Share each image individually.
5. Include a short bio/artist statement.
6. All selected works will be included on the www.whenwegettogether.com website.
Additionally, works selected to be featured in the When We Get Together to Talk About God... zine will receive a 50-dollar honorarium.
7. Any work that uses AI must be identified and will not be accepted.
Submit Art
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