''Image'' is an American quarterly literary journal that publishes art and writing engaging or grappling with

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faith. The journal's byline is "Art, Faith, Mystery". ''Image'' features fiction, poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, music and dance. The journal also sponsors the Glen Workshops, the Arts & Faith discussion forum, the Milton Fellowship for writers working on their first book, the summer Luci Shaw Fellowship for undergraduates and the Denise Levertov Award. Material first published in ''Image'' has appeared in ''

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'', ''The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses'', ''The Best Spiritual Writing'', '' The O. Henry Prize Stories'', ''The Art of the Essay, New Stories from the South'', ''The Best American Movie Writing'', and ''The Best Christian Writing''. In 2000 and 2003, ''Image'' was nominated by

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for an Independent Press Award in the category of Spiritual Coverage.

History

''Image'' was established in 1989 by founding editor Gregory Wolfe and is based at

Seattle Pacific University Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a private Christian university in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1891 in conjunction with the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary. It ...

. ''Image'' was involved with the founding of

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degree, which launched in 2005. and what discontinued in 2024. The MFA faculty included writers such as Scott Cairns,

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, Gina Ochsner, Mischa Willett, and

Lauren Winner Lauren Frances Winner (born 1976) is an American historian, scholar of religion, and Episcopal priest. She is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School. Winner writes and lectures on Christian practice, the history of ...

. In 2019, after some restructuring, ''Image'' announced a new editorial team including writer and philosophy professor at

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as Editor-in-Chief.

Glen Workshops

The Glen Workshop, begun in 1995 and sponsored by ''Image'', is a week-long summer conference featuring classes taught by professional poets, writers, and visual artists. The Glen has been held at St. John's College in Santa Fé, New Mexico and a variety of other locations. Each year the workshops center around a specific creative theme such as "Acts of Attention: The Art of Discovery," "The Generations in Our Bones: Art and Tradition," and "Border Crossings: Art and Risk." Workshop classes often include fiction, poetry, memoir, songwriting, photography, and painting, among other options.

Arts and Faith

''Image'' hosted an online forum called Arts and Faith, which facilitated discussion on topics such as film, music, literature, visual art, theater and dance, and television and radio, as well as general faith and life topics. The forum released Top 100 and Top 25 Film lists each year, both overall and in specific categories such as horror films or films about marriage. Film critics involved in Arts and Faith included Jeffrey Overstreet, Steven Greydanus, Peter T. Chattaway, and Michael Leary of Filmwell.

Denise Levertov Award

''Image'' co-sponsors the annual Levertov Award with the Seattle Pacific University English Department and its MFA Program in Creative Writing. Every spring they present the award to one artist or writer. The award is named for the American poet

Denise Levertov Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her p ...

. Past recipients include: * Madeline DeFrees *

Franz Wright Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Life and career Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He gradua ...

Kathleen Norris Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 – January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. No ...

* Thomas Lynch * Eugene Peterson *

Bret Lott Bret Lott (born October 8, 1958) is the ''The New York Times, New York Times'' author and professor of English at the College of Charleston. He is ''Crazyhorse (magazine), Crazyhorse'' magazine's nonfiction editor and leads a study abroad progr ...

Sam Phillips Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) was an American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, R ...

Bruce Cockburn Bruce Douglas Cockburn ( ; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to folk- and jazz-influenced rock to soundscapes accompanying spoken stories. His lyrics reflect interests in spirit ...

Luci Shaw Luci Shaw (born December 29, 1928) is a Christian writer of poetry and essays. Background Shaw was born on December 29, 1928, in England. Her parents were medical missionaries, and she lived in Canada and Australia before moving to the Unite ...

* Scott Cairns

References

External links

Official Website
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