• Personal stories of psychedelic experience

• Therapeutic perspectives and psychedelic integration

• Indigenous traditions, reciprocity, and cultural context

• Plant medicines, fungi, ethnobotany, and ecology

• Entrepreneurship and innovation in the psychedelic space

General Themes We Are Interested In

• Art, music, film, literature, and culture

• Safety, preparation, integration, and harm reduction

• Spirituality, ritual, ceremony, and altered states

• Community, ethics, access, inclusion, and social change

• Sex and intimacy in psychedelic practice

• Humor, comedy, and the trickster spirit

• Substance-free encounters with altered states of consciousness

• Psychedelic-themed fiction

We are drawn to work that is honest, grounded, artful, and useful. Strong submissions may be personal, analytical, poetic, practical, visual, investigative, or experimental, but they should offer readers something of real value: insight, beauty, context, discernment, or lived wisdom.

We are not looking for reckless dosing advice, miracle-cure claims, illegal sourcing instructions, sensationalized trip reports, or extractive takes on Indigenous traditions.

•  Essays and articles

• Personal narratives

• Interviews

• Poetry and short literary work

• Visual art and photography

• Comics and illustration

We welcome:

Suggested article length is generally 800–2,000 words, though we are open to shorter or longer work when the piece calls for it.

Psychedelic Pathways Magazine currently offers a value-exchange model rather than direct payment.

Selected contributors receive:

• Publication in a distinctive, beautifully designed magazine you will be proud to share

• A hard-copy “mini-magazine” tear sheet of your contribution**

• A full-page advertisement in the magazine for the item, project, organization, offering, or cause of your choice, valued at $1,000

• A 15% commission on single-issue and yearly subscription sales that originate from your audience

• Collaborative social media promotion across shared platforms

• A contributor list credit, bio, and links to your network within the issue

You must own or control the rights to any material you submit. Previously published work is welcome, provided you are free to republish it and there are no exclusivity restrictions, waiting periods, or permissions issues in effect.

Contributors retain copyright to their work. By submitting and being accepted, you grant Psychedelic Pathways Magazine permission to publish, archive, promote, excerpt, edit for clarity, and share the work in connection with the magazine and its related platforms.

Please email your submission, draft, portfolio, or pitch to:

Strider John Peterson, Publisher

striderjohn@psychedelicpathwaysmag.app

Include:

• Your name and short bio

• The title or working title of the piece

• Whether the work is original or previously published

• A brief description of the submission or idea

• Any relevant links, images, audio, video, or portfolio samples

• The themed issue, if any, that your work is intended for

We review submissions on a rolling basis.

Follow this link to view a complimentary issue for your reference and guidance.

Psychedelic Pathways Magazine exists for readers and creators who believe psychedelic culture deserves more than hype, fear, cliché, or shallow trend-chasing. If your work brings depth, beauty, humor, courage, responsibility, or hard-won wisdom to the conversation, we would love to hear from you.

**Hard copy offered after 100th magazine purchase made from your audience