IMAGE: Art, Faith, Mystery

IMAGE, a literary and arts quarterly founded in 1989, is a unique forum for the best writing and artwork that are informed by—or grapple with—religious faith. We have never been interested in art that merely regurgitates dogma or falls back on easy answers or didacticism. Instead, our focus has been on writing and visual artwork that embody a spiritual struggle, that seek to strike a balance between tradition and a profound openness to the world.

Material first published in IMAGE has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Best Creative Nonfiction, Best American Spiritual Writing, O. Henry Prize Stories, The Art of the Essay, New Stories from the South, and in the Utne Reader.

Past contributors include Scott Cairns, Annie Dillard, Clyde Edgerton, Makoto Fujimura, Patrica Hampl, Ron Hansen, Mark Jarman, Denise Levertov, Marilyn Nelson, Kathleen Norris, Mary Oliver, Ann Patchett, Richard Rodriguez, Wim Wenders, and Franz Wright.

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IMAGE: Art, Faith, Mystery - Now available, Bearing the Mystery brings together in one handsome volume the best fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art from Image’s first twenty years — the work of nearly seventy writers and twenty visual artists. This is a volume to be treasured and an ideal Christmas gift!
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