Issue 3: “The Sensualist…”

Visual art submissions

The 2025 theme for the Wellspringwords platform is “Living our freedom…”.

Using our Literary Anthology, we will explore, as a collective, some of the more nuanced and subtle aspects of freedom. Our freedom encompasses our embodiment as much as it touches on our sense of psychological openness and access to societal frameworks for success.

In this Spring/Summer issue, we are exploring the embodied experience of inhabiting oneself. In this publication, we get to define the role of sensuality in our lived experience.

Here is some guidance to consider as you prepare to submit your visual art for the cover of this issue:

What are the roles of presence, anxiety, healing, and aging in your sensual expression?

What is a body in joy?

What is the language surrounding your body and its relationship with life?

Explore the experience of surrendering to sensation.

Explore the continuum of shame and pleasure.

We also welcome non-pornographic explorations of the erotic.

We are excited to consider any rendering of visual art for the Issue 3 cover: photography, painting, collage, digital media, textile art, figure art, sculpture, experimental art, intuitive art — let your authentic creative power burn bright.

For the cover, we’ll choose the artwork that best encapsulates the issue’s theme and the chosen writing for the issue. We will also include a number of artworks that inspire us and showcase them within Issue 3, our Spring/Summer issue.

Details about Issue 3:

  • Submission window: February 3 - March 26, 2025

  • Artists will be notified if their submission is chosen by April 30, 2025.

  • Issue 3 will launch in May 2025.

General Guidelines

  • You may submit up to 4 pieces of artwork for consideration. Please ensure all pieces are high-quality images in PNG or JPG. Each piece should have its own title.

  • Themes to keep in mind + heart while considering your submission: Love, Body, Spirituality, Wellness, Identity

  • You are welcome to submit your visual art if you identify as a woman of color. If you do not but are passionate about this platform and opportunity, please extend your passion by sharing this opportunity with a special woman of color artist in your life.

  • All submissions must be original and unpublished; we do not accept previously published submissions, either in print or digitally. We ask for First Electronic and Archival Rights: your selected submission will first be shared through our digital Literary Anthology before it is published elsewhere. We will then archive your work to be accessed for future purposes/inspiration/teaching. By submitting your work, you agree to this.

  • The contents of your submission are original and your sole creation — no AI was used. We embrace your authentic creative intelligence.

  • There is a USD $5 fee for each submission. All submission fees support the costs and maintenance of this important publication.

  • We hold your submissions in strict confidence and privacy, whether or not they are published. Your submission will only be seen by the Wellspringwords editorial team.

  • We do not offer monetary compensation at this time. If you desire to support our initiative of empowering artists, you may contact us to discuss sponsorship opportunities.

As you prepare to join us, please take some time to read our About page and to enjoy the many published pieces by other talented women of color, found here.

More about collaborating with Wellspringwords:

  • Explore your authentic Self, your wisdom within, and your creative expression.

  • Add to your portfolio of published artwork.

  • Join the Wellspringwords community of writers and artists from around the world.

  • Must identify as a woman of color/woman of the global majority.

  • Artwork must align with the essence of Wellspringwords — connecting to your deep, authentic Self, and expressing that creatively.