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  "description": "Submissions open 2 November — close 11 December",
  "path": "/announcements/announcing-calls-for-issue-ii-blue-spring/",
  "publishedAt": "2025-11-02T05:17:55.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Thank you for contributing to _Blue Winter: Suffering, Wilderness & Eternity._ Your work gave depth and clarity to our first issue, and we remain grateful for the spirit of thought and beauty you brought to it.\n\nWe now invite submissions for **Issue II: Blue Spring — Recollection & the Interior Life.**\n\nWhere _Blue Winter_ turned toward endurance and exile, _Blue Spring_ turns toward renewal, remembrance, and interior stillness.\n\n⟶**** Submit to Issue II: Blue Spring\n\n* * *\n\n## On the Theme\n\n### Blue Spring — Recollection & the Interior Life\n\n#### Recollection\n\nCultural memory and ancestral reverence. Sacred landscapes, saints, and their legacy. The rediscovery of forgotten texts, nostalgia for transcendent beauty, and memories that awaken longing for what lies beyond the material.\n\n#### The Interior Life\n\nSilence and solitude as hidden sanctity. Domestic spirituality and quiet virtue in the ordinary. Hesychasm, inner stillness, and the unseen transformation of the soul.\n\n* * *\n\n## Submission Details\n\n**Opens:** 2 November 2025\n**Closes:** 11 December 2025\n**Theme:** Blue Spring — Recollection & the Interior Life\n⟶**** Submit here\n\nSubmission guidelines and further information are available through the link above.\n\n* * *\n\nThank you once again for your contribution to _Blue Winter._ We look forward to your work for _Blue Spring,_ and to continuing this quiet correspondence between voices.\n\n**Chidinma Nwanoka**\nDirector of Communications\nNinth Heaven Literary & Arts Journal",
  "title": "Announcing Calls for Issue II: Blue Spring",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-15T17:23:04.777Z"
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