The Windhover

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is proud to sponsor The Windhover. The journal is dedicated to promoting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that considers Christian perspectives and engages spiritual themes. Each spring the journal hosts a writers’ festival, inviting their published authors and interested readers to come to campus for a weekend of workshops and presentations on the connection between faith and the arts.

Subscription Information

The Windhover is published in February and August. New issues of The Windhover may be purchased for $12.00, and back issues may be purchased for $6.00.

Submission Guidelines

The editorial team considers unsolicited submissions of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, and creative nonfiction received between February 1-April 15 and August 1-October 15 via our online submissions manager.

Special Notice: Issue 30.1 will be a special anthology of "Best of" The Windhover for the past decade. Thus, we are having one extended window (Oct.15 to Mar.31) for 30.2, which will affect our response time slightly.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable provided that you let us know that your work has been accepted elsewhere. (Please contact us via email and withdraw your submission from our online submission manager.)

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 4,700 words are not considered.) Craft essays should be no more than 3500 words.
• Include a brief cover letter with your name, address, email, the title of your submission(s), and a 2-4 sentence bio written in third-person.
• 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. (See link below.)
• We do not consider previously published work.
• We do not consider e-mailed or postal submissions.
• Only one submission per person during a submission window please.

From the editor: “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.”

Mailing Address (for correspondence and orders only—no submissions):

Dr. Toby F. Coley, Editor-in-Chief
Windhover
UMHB Box 8450
900 College Street
Belton, TX 76513

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