What We Do
Annual Submission Call
Each year, Planted Journal hosts an open submission call as a space for creative engagement and reflection on a given theme.
Spanning a wide range of artistic mediums, our contributors may relate the theme to experiences from their own lives, to known figures or writings of relevant disciplines, and/or to broader observations of humanity and nature. Past themes have included Oneness, Movement, Rhythms of Nature, Creation: Essence of Being, and Reverence.
We are interested in exchanging ideas with people from around the globe—individuals and groups who share our aim of imagining a harmonious world through narrative change. Contributors need not have an extensive portfolio—submissions are open to both established and emerging artists/visionaries who are interested in becoming part of our creative community at the intersection of humanity and nature. People whose submissions are selected will work with our editorial team to develop their works for publication, bringing visibility to their presence as creatives as well as to important issues of our time.
Our annual theme features two calls for contributors each year: one in spring and one in Fall. You can explore our current theme, Abundance, here.
Editorial Team Projects
Members of our editorial team lead short and long-term projects throughout the year. From interview series to newsletter curation, our team is committed to uplifting voices from artists, activists, and visionaries around the globe. We operate on the core belief that creative practices have the power to shape the way we relate to the Earth and to one another.
Read about our current and forthcoming projects below:
Email Newsletters
Seeds: Since January 2025, Planted Journal has delivered regularly scheduled reflections and email newsletters as part of its Seeds series. Read inspiring first-person narratives, short-form historical essays, and more from Founder and Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Singh Parihar.
Creativity for Climate: Seeds subscribers will also receive our weekly Creativity for Climate newsletter. Curated by Assistant Editor Sarita Gara, this is a compilation of all our latest stories and special announcements.
Like all Planted Journal articles, subscriptions to our email list are free of charge.
Rethinking Climate
In a world often defined by crisis headlines and carbon counts, stories of climate action can feel like they live on the periphery, minuscule in the shadow of an overwhelming challenge. Climate stories go beyond scientists, policymakers, and activists. They also take shape in unexpected places: studios, workshops, design labs, community spaces, small corners of cities, and in rural landscapes.
Rethinking Climate is a series of essays by Planted Journal’s Associate Editor, Anna Borrie, that grew out of this observation. They trace how creativity and care intersect with the climate crisis, how artists, architects, and makers are turning what once symbolised environmental failure into forms of renewal. Each story begins with a familiar problem—a tyre fire on the city’s edge, smog above the skyline, discarded textiles, and industrial offcuts—and follows the people transforming these materials and ideas into new forms of value.
To rethink climate is to shift perspective, to see potential where others see residue, and to design systems that regenerate rather than extract. This isn’t only about technology; it’s about creativity, empathy, and design. It’s about finding beauty in what was once waste and building futures that don’t just sustain life but also enrich it.
Sacred Ecologies Interview Series and Study Club
At a moment when climate change is most often articulated through data sets, political frameworks, and scientific research, Sacred Ecologies begins elsewhere—quietly and with intention. It turns towards cultures, towards memory, towards the invisible threads of our relationship with the natural world. It asks what it might mean to understand ecology not only as a system to be managed but also as something lived, felt, and, in many contexts, revered.
Bringing together a group of visual artists from different continents, the project traces how land, spirituality, and cultural belief intersect within contemporary practice. Through a series of in-depth interviews, Virginia Melodia, Photography Features Editor, invites each artist to reflect on how their work engages with inherited knowledge systems, ecological fragility, and the ongoing negotiation between past and present. These are not simply narratives of environmental concern but of survival—of how communities, histories, and spiritual ecology endure and adapt under conditions of environmental and cultural threat.
Furthermore, across four online sessions taking place between July and September 2026, members of our creative community will have the opportunity to engage directly with Fernanda Liberti, Alvin Ng, Gui Christ, and Lisandro Suriel, artists whose practices challenge extractive ways of seeing and offer alternative perspectives on our relationship with the natural world. These workshops offer a space for skill development through artist-led encounters, combining presentations, open discussion, and guided exercises to engage with the ideas, methods, and processes behind long-term artistic projects.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
To read the interviews, click here.
Documenting Conflict Interview Series
Documenting Conflict explores the ways in which conflict is recorded and how who gets to record it shapes how we remember, interpret, and understand it. Documentation extends beyond journalists and historians, spilling into studios, workshops, galleries, and public spaces.
Associate Editor Anna Borrie interviews artists from around the globe who provide valuable critiques on how truth is constructed and what it means to witness in an era of mass media. Trace how creativity and care intersect with the recording of conflict, turning trauma and societal fracture into forms of reflection and dialogue.
Rethinking how conflict is documented means placing empathy and witness at the centre. It is about uncovering what is often silenced and shaping memory in ways that go beyond mere collection, inviting dialogue, reflection, and understanding.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS
Politics of Fashion
Politics of Fashion: On Climate, Consumption and Colonialism explores fashion beyond its surface, examining how the stories of what we wear shape the relationship between the personal and the planetary, the past and the present. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Singh Parihar invites selected thought leaders from around the world, as the series seeks to challenge the legacies of colonial consumption and extractivism while interpreting fashion as a form of care.
The Interspecies Table
The Interspecies Table is an exploration of the profound, often invisible entanglements between food, plants, and human life. As we navigate the quiet grief and loud realities of a rapidly changing climate, it becomes urgent to move away from purely extractive views of agriculture and survival. This series adopts a softer, more poetic lens to examine how we coexist with the natural world as it transforms around us.
Through essays, interviews, and conversations, Iris Sham Sin Hang, Food Editor at Planted Journal, invites artists, curators and writers to reframes our relationship with the environment. The project suggests that cultivating an intimate connection to our local ecologies, our soil and our food systems is a quiet but vital form of defiance against ecological collapse. By exploring the relationships between microbes, mycelial networks, shifting landscapes, and our own liminal bodies, the series proposes that eating, growing, and returning to the earth are necessary acts of multispecies kinship.