- EarthSong Journal is published twice a year in conjunction with the project of the same name. Several religious congregations in south-eastern Australia, each of whom has a strong tradition in education, sponsor the project. The EarthSong Project aims to further eco-literacy as well celebrating the numinous, sacred nature of all creation.
- The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. (Thomas Berry)
- The crisis of sustainability in our times is at heart a spiritual crisis: a crisis of disconnection. Such a crisis is ultimately a moral crisis, requiring both a local and a global context.
- The challenge to this present generation of humans is an urgent re-orientation to Earth so that future generations may have a home.
- The Earth Song Journal offers perspective on ecology, spirituality, education and insights into a sense of belonging in the wide and diverse continent that is Australia.
- The Earth Song Journal features contributions from well-known writers and thinkers as well as from newer voices, all of whom offer challenging ideas, reflections on and celebrations of creation. The journal tells the sacred story of a living Earth embedded in a constantly surprising Universe emerging from the heart of Divine Mystery.
- The Earth Song Journal’s focus is particularly, though not exclusively, Australian. Contributors offer articles, personal narratives, poetry, art work and educational ideas as seen through Australian eyes.
- Earth Song Journal is published twice each year in Spring and Autumn.
Journal Subscriptions
- Become an EarthSong Journal subscriber by downloading this journal_subscription_form.
Journal Contributions
- EarthSong Journal is published in Spring and Autumn of each year. In keeping with the goals of the project the journal aims to further development of eco-literacy and earth ethics as well celebrating the numinous, sacred nature of all creation. There is a strong desire that the majority of contributions to the journal will represent an Australian response to the challenges and ethical dilemnas of our times.
- Contributions to the journal are welcome but will always be subject to the discretion of the Editorial Committee. EarthSong encourages both new and established voices. New work is preferred but reprints will occasionally be accepted for particular issues.
- Authors should write in a conversational tone for a general audience. We seek a variety of material: essays, reports and personal narratives. Preference will usually be given to articles with an Australian focus
- Articles by feature writers will be 4000-5000 words in length and a number of shorter articles will be included in each edition.
- An accepted referencing style should be used. A copy of the preferred APA5 style is available from the EarthSong office.
- Manuscripts should be typed, double spaced and submitted in hard copy as well as on a disk or CD as a Microsoft Word document. Illustrations will be limited to those that reproduce well in one colour such as line drawings, cartoons, computer graphics or b&w photos. Colour photos that can be grey-scaled and adjusted for brightness and contrast are acceptable. Photographs in print form are preferred. Digital photographs need to be high resolution files. This can be achieved by using the Fine setting on the camera. These should be submitted with the hard copy and will be returned to the owner. Please check with the Editor if you are submitting them electronically.
- Most editions of the journal will feature a Readers’ Forum. Contributors to this segment are invited to engage in a dialogue around the issues raised in the previous edition. In general, comments should be restricted to 500 words.
- Advertisements for seminars and other events may be published if they are in keeping with the philosophy of the EarthSong Project.
- EarthSong will provide all published writers and artists with a one year subscription to the magazine and two additional copies of the issue in which their work appears.
- Articles not included in the print version of the journal may be published as additional articles on the web site.
- The copyright for all published material will remain with the author.
Submissions and queries should be directed to
The Editor,
EarthSong Journal
PO Box 851
Parkville VIC 3052
tel 03 8352 0106
fax 03 8359 0132
email: info@earthsong.org.au
EarthSong acknowledges its presence on the lands of the Wurundjeri Peoples and the Kulin Nation.
