Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre and Roses and Wildflowers through 2026

Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre and Roses and Wildflowers are the publications of The Society for Ritual Arts, a non-profit engaged in the ritual, sacred, folk arts and in the exploration of mythopoeia in all creative mediums. These journals are envisioned as parallel publications that will share issue themes and some editorial overlap.

Cover art by Denita Benyshek.

Friends, supporters, this is a plea.

It costs us a minimum of $900 for each issue of our magazines. We are about $870 short of that as of today.

Please share this fundraising link and give what you can.

Even $15 will pay one poet.

$40 will cover the writers and the accompanying art.

$50 will pay for cover art and it will also support one of our hard working editors with an honorarium.

$100-$400 will pay for the web team's work

$300-400 will pay our web hosting and domain fees.

and... lest we forget: $150 will pay the accountant at the end of our fiscal year and keep the state of CA and the IRS happy with us.

Thank you, All of us.

Be a part of the magic. We couldn't do this without you

Roses & Wildflowers Submissions Guidelines : We are open for Submission for Autumn 2026! https://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/roses-wildflowers-submission-guidelines/

Coreopsis Journal Submission Guidelines: Coreopsis Journal is always open for submissions, place issue theme in the subject line of your submission. https://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions/

Coreopsis

Coreopsis Journal of Myth & Theatre is the brainchild of artist, writer, and scholar, Lezlie Kinyon, and a tiny group of scholars and artists who work in ritual, myth and the sacred arts. We have a broad mandate to publish peer reviewed papers, insightful essays and editorials. Each issue features a profiled artist and pages for announcements of new books and music, festivals and conferences of interest, and has been in publication since 2010.

The Cover Art featured on this page is by Kevin Khin and will grace Autumn 2025 as we enter Volume 14.

Roses and Wildflowers

As an idea this creative venture of a “sister” publication to Coreopsis Journal was on the table for years. Our vision is to pair storytellers, poets,audio and visual artists in mythopoeia and fabulism.

Rose Spinne, artist, poet, and founding member of the Society for Ritual Arts, started the process really early in the organization. Sadly, Rose was diagnosed with cancer and didn’t live to see her contributions come to fruition. We miss her faery spirit and her wisdom. Rose also left copious notes and the editors hold the legacy of that vision as we work. May her spirit live on in these pages spinning new tales.

Rose created the name, “Roses and Wildflowers” imagining that the fiction featured in this journal would be the “roses”: climbers, ramblers, and tea roses forming the boundaries of a “beautiful garden of creativity” and the wildflowers the poetry and art “growing steadfastly with grace and fortitude” in all of the pathways and corners. So the journey began…

We kept the name and in the Summer of 2023, it just seemed the right moment to make it all happen. We sent out a call for submissions. We had no idea if anyone would answer! We only had the budget for 4 stories and 4 poems.

By June, we had well over 50 submissions and by September when the first readers and editors met to select the stories and poetry there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 150. It was a very hard choice, and due to the generosity of a few, we were able to add to that number of accepted pieces.

Please join us in making this vision reality.