G41 – The Creation Issue

“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically rooted. It is, in other words, the birth of new [people] and the new beginning, the action they are capable of by virtue of being born. Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope.”

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)

The theme for Issue 41 of Garland is Creation. This will be the fourth of our Storylines series and the final in our second journey.

We invite stories about creation and rebirth, including how the world came to be and cycles of reincarnation. More broadly, this issue is a celebration of the making process, in which something new emerges into the world.

Make it new, again.

This issue will be published on 1 December 2025. You can find guidelines for submitting a story here. The deadline for stories is 1 November 2025. Please let us know your idea here in advance.