Orenda Healing International/Winds of Change Press
Invitations & Announcements
Four Winds Journal
Four Winds Journal acknowledges that everyone is no doubt exhausted by the avalanche of infobytes that innundate us not just daily but hourly, as the administration shifts course from one doubtful policy to another and the country reacts to government shutdown, sex scandals, demolition of revered icons, and more. Originally, we had planned to give ourselves and everyone else a break with an issue on the views of young people in this country and around the world. After all, they will inherit whatever is left when the dust settles.
However, based on the fact that speaking truth to power seems to be making headway (e.g. the recent Democratic wins in Congress and elsewhere, the increase in frequency and intensity of protests, and the push to open the Epstein files as we approach the 2026 Miderms) we have decided to support this renaissance of courage in a Winter issue with the theme of resistance.
FWJ Fall/Winter 2025: Resist!!!
Submission Deadline December 30, 2025
Additional submissions sometimes continue to arrive after the deadline. If submissions are received too close to press time, we will create a supplement and publish that digitally later in the Spring.
Send articles, poetry, and artwork as email attachments to windsofchangepress@orenda-arts.org
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Winds of Change Press
Winds of Change Press invites you to share your delicious recipes and the memories that accompany them for Figs in Winter, a collaborative cookbook and memoir honoring family, friends, and food. For questions, suggestions, and additional information, please reach out to us:
505-780-5990 / windsofchangepress@orenda-arts.org
Submission Deadline May 1, 2026
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For all submissions, read our Submission Guidelines!
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Recently Published Journals (see Archives)
FWJ Summer 2025 Boots on the Ground – and Pushback! is here now!
When we first thought of the theme for this third issue of the Collateral Damage series, Boots on the Ground, we intended to focus on the depredation caused by patriarchal lust for power and territory and the various ways in which it can manifest: sanctions, tariffs, and actual military deployment being only a few. However, with the recent widespread pushback against the current US administration’s ill-conceived policies, we recognize that there can be “boots on the ground” on both sides.
FWJ Winter 2025 the Others is here now!
We’re not all alike. People and their customs take many forms— some of which we may not fully understand. What we don’t understand, we don’t trust. What we don’t trust, we fear. What we fear, we hate. How does the practice of “othering” affect us and our world?
Recently Published Books
Bless You Father for You Have Sinned. This memoir by first-time author Phillip B. Shamas relates the long, often painful, yet eventually triumphant journey of a litigant in the recent pedophilia lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. (Memoir) Phillip B. Shamas, 2025. Winds of Change Press: Santa Fe, NM.
Starfriends, The Alyssa Chronicles Book 2. In this sequel to The River Goddess & Other Stories, our heroine Alyssa and her friends are involved in a much more challenging adventure: how to save our home planet from certain destruction! (YA, Magic realism, Science fiction.) Valentine McKay-Riddell, 2024. Winds of Change Press: Santa Fe, NM.
Graffiti Pigeons. A collection of poetry, short stories, and photos. (Memoir). Paul E. Casey, 2024. Winds of Change Press: Santa Fe, NM.