Submit Work to The Changing Times
submissions for issue 16 of the changing times are due August 31st, 2025.
Since taking office, the new Trump administration has terminated thousands of federal workers, and agencies that manage public lands, such as the Forest Service, Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management, have not been spared. In Montana, our communities, families, and landscapes are feeling the impact. Our public lands are under more threat than ever before. Climate change is driving longer and more intense wildfire seasons, decreased snowpack and water retention, drought, extreme heat, and impacts on ecosystems and wildlife habitat - our lands need their stewards.
For our next issue of The Changing Times, we are focusing on stories of public lands and their importance to us as Montanans. Are you a current or former federal employee who worked on public lands? Are you a hiker, biker, trail runner, climber, backpacker, birder, angler, hunter, rockhound, rafter, horse rider, packer, geocacher, photographer, writer, poet, artist, or nature-lover? We want to share your stories of public land use and why public land matters. We want to gather our collective grief, anger, and reverence for wild places under threat.
Submissions in any creative form are welcome. This can be essay, short story, poetry, painting, sculpture, and more. Thank you for sharing your story on the vitality of public lands for people, community, and climate.
A note about cultural appropriation
We respect and encourage submissions from a wide variety of voices, cultures, and heritages. Please consider if your art engages in cultural appropriation before submitting. Cultural appropriation is defined by the Americans for the Arts Public Art Resource Center as: “the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, and aesthetics of one people or society by members of another, typically more dominant people or society. It is the taking of something from a less-dominant culture in a way its members find offensive, with the feeling that the cultural heritage of the less dominant people has been misunderstood and misused by people in a position of power or privilege.” Learn more here.