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A portal to get you outside, literally and figuratively

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This magazine helps creatives reconnect to their natural inspiration by reading stories about how you found yours.

Work deadens the senses. Rewild Magazine clears them. It reminds us to go outside, literally and metaphorically, to seek adventure, redemption, and discovery. Sometimes this kindles poetry back at work.

Read it at rewildmag.com

Our writing rubric

Rewild stories tend to be about 

Getting outside, literally and figuratively
Learning from the natural world
Making meaning of your surroundings
Tales where science and myth agree
Stories of craftsmanship (‘art’ is from ‘artisan’)
Timeless creative wisdom

WE WELCOME anything that BRINGS US BACK TO LIFE

It could be a 2,000-word adventure like this‍
Or a 300-word observation like this‍
Or a 150-word poem like this‍
Or visual art, or photos
Or music and auditory experiences
Or a short video or audio clip like this
Or a book review, or movie review

issues you can contribute to

Like a plant, Rewild issues never stop growing. Contribute to any, past or future.
‍Submit your pitch to rewild@fenwick.media

6 | What is true

And how would you even know anymore?

5 | A guild of your own

As our affiliations fragment into micro-communities, do you even know your friends anymore? Your family? Who is part of what surprising subgroups? To what secret guilds do you yourself belong, and what would surprise us about you?

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4 | Traverse the adverse

What great difficulty caused you to grow the most? As modern convenience dissolves our daily impediments, how are you reveling in fruitful friction? Befriending your barriers? Who are we when we must overcome something, but perhaps more important, who are we are we traverse the adverse?

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3 | Nature did it better

It’s difficult to beat four billion years of experimentation. When have you or someone else realized, after great effort, that the answer lay in nature? Or the cosmos? Where does logic look primitive next to biologic?

READ ABOUT BABIES AND AI

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2 | Beautiful Conspiracy

What could you achieve if you believed the world was conspiring to help you? This issue is inspired by the antonym of paranoia, “pronoia”—the believe that the world is engaged in a conspiracy to your benefit.

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1 | Rewilding

The inaguarl issue focuses on this question: What can we learn by getting outside, both literally and metaphorically? How do jaunts into the outside world nurture something within our work?

READ about a trip into the amazon

At this stage, we can’t pay for pieces—yet

This is a highly speculative, money-losing venture. There is no pay as of yet. It’s a great place to publish the things you want to see in the world, and to oxygenate your art.

This is a magazine to help creatives get outside, and out of their own way

These stories are for strategists, writers, and designers who crave big ideas but feel locked in a hyperbaric chamber with tech bros and achingly boring business books. Our readers’ job is to communicate to other humans but they’ve nearly forgotten how. They lost their connection to the outdoors.

We aspire to bring them screaming back to waking life with stories about neuroscientists asking why AI doesn't have a childhood, poets wondering if the countryside is our future, and artists metabolizing grief into art. Our readers thrill in ancient wisdom, timeless poetry, and anything you can share of that great corpus of artistic human ingentuity.

We believe that this project can make all marketing more meaningful, and contribute to humanity’s survival. Because what if we turned all that money spent on marketing into something more fruitful, like real education or art?

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Our readers expect us to name that nameless feeling of feeling lost at work—and recovering

We started this magazine for ourselves. Because, we once gave everything to our work and came to know that hollow, gloomy, truth: It will never love us back. We realized that this magazine wasn’t something we had to wait to launch until we were successful ... rather, we wouldn't be successful until we did. So. Here we are.

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Readers expect us to understand deeper, explain clearer, and name the nameless.

Show creative restraint—Do less, show more.
Make sense of making sense—Really interrogate your own thinking.
Participate in the narrative—To tell truthfully, you must first live it.
Speak with uncommon clarity—Write to be instantly understood.

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Examples of such works

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Out beyond the idea of corporations

How I came back to creative life

Finding peace on a perilous sea‍

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What to expect in review

A Fenwick editor will guide you, but if you’re curious:

1. Pitch

If we accept your pitch, we'll jam on the idea.

Principle: Participatory narrative

2. Outline

You’ll arrange the right ideas in the right order.

Principle: Go slow to go fast

3. Draft

You’ll write, design, or otherwise create.

Principle: Make sense of making sense

4. Final

We’ll take it from there.

Principle: Uncommonly clear communication

Our quality writing rubric

A great story for Rewild Magazine will cause readers to rethink an existing belief and be changed. As such, we ask of every story: 

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Does this cause someone to rethink?
Does the story have the power to stay with them?
What would make it even more so?
Is the writing clear?

Clear writing is six things

1. Precise

Uses exact, unambiguous words, avoids cliché, and establishes a setting.

E.g. Ask, “Could I be more specific?”

2. Concise

Hurries to the point. Minimizes adverbs, nounings, superlatives, redundancies, floridness, and double negatives.

E.g. No fluffery.

3. Easy to read

Requires no special knowledge or lookups. Prefers active voice, defines jargon, offers context.

E.g. Use short sentences, few acronyms, actively worded.

4. Evocative

Engages the senses, varies the structure, and uses storytelling devices.

E.g. Use uncommon words.

5. Helpful

Aids the reader in a present goal.

E.g. Do the thinking to distill the idea down to what’s palatable.

6. Honest

Avoids fallacies, bias, and hyperbole. Cites its sources.

E.g. Poison pill—call out what’s true and own the narrative.

BTW Fenwick has a writing course

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Rewild magazine is here to help you reclaim your creative source.

It is the most public feature of The Rewild where we are helping 40 million workplace creatives get reinspired with timely art and timeless wisdom to build a world that makes more meaningful marketing.

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