Parallax Press is a nonprofit publishing company founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. We publish books and media on the art of mindful living and Engaged Buddhism. As the publishing arm of the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, we are connected to a lively network of meditators, activists, and people all over the world who are interested in mindfulness.
Submissions for the Mindfulness Bell print magazine
Our community journal the Mindfulness Bell is published three times a year. Please select The Mindfulness Bell from the options below and respond to the prompts to submit your articles and photographs/artwork.
Book proposal submissions
Our authors are the backbone of Parallax, and we welcome submissions from both agents and individuals. Thank you for thinking of us as a home for your work.
Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we may not be able to respond to all submissions. We are not able to respond to phone calls regarding the status of individual submissions. We do not accept hard copy submissions at this time.
The heart of The Mindfulness Bell is the creative expression of mindfulness practice offered by practitioners throughout the world. The beauty of each issue comes from the creative fruits offered by our readers. Many of our articles are commissioned, or transcribed and edited from Dharma teachers’ talks. We welcome your submissions and publish a limited number of unsolicited articles.
Submissions for upcoming issues of The Mindfulness Bell should include specific examples of how mindfulness practice in your daily life is helping you to transform suffering, create peace, and improve relationships and well-being.
Please share submissions from your personal practice in the Plum Village tradition, writing from your heart on:
- Upcoming theme: In Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Love Letter to the Earth, he says “I aspire to practice to love Mother Earth, Father Sun, and for human beings to love one another with the radiant insight of nonduality and interbeing in order to help us transcend all kinds of discrimination, fear, jealousy, resentment, hatred, and despair.” What does the insight of nonduality, and healing from the illusion of separateness, mean in your personal practice?
- Current theme: On January 29, 2024, Thích Nhất Hạnh formally became an ancestral teacher of Từ Hiếu, the root temple of the Plum Village tradition. We invite submissions reflecting on continuation, touching the ancestral stream, and feeling connected with the deep, rich Plum Village lineage, including Thầy’s lineages with revolutionary teachings, science in Buddhism, social justice, peace activism in the west, early environmental activism, and poetry and literature.
- Climate justice and engaging with the climate crisis
- Social justice (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, gender, healthcare, income inequality, etc.)
- Buddhist psychology and its relationship with science, public health, neuroscience, and trauma
- Sangha building and outreach
We especially request stories, poems, and artwork from children and teens.
We prefer articles between 300–1,200 words and poetry up to 25 lines. Please send your submission in Word format, a high-resolution photo with a file size of at least 1 MB to illustrate your submission (optional), a high-res photo of yourself, and a 2–3 sentence bio with your Dharma name (if any).
We appreciate photos, artwork, illustrations, and cartoons. Please send high-resolution images as TIF, PNG, or JPG files, 1 MB or larger.
Please do not use AI in your submissions.
Deadlines
We accept submissions on a continuous, rolling basis for consideration to be published on our website.
For consideration for our print issues, deadlines are October 1 for the March equinox issue and April 13 for the September equinox issue.
We are a small team and it may take several months for us to respond to submissions. We appreciate your patience.