08/10/2026
📣 Call for Pitches: Rest, Repair, and Radical Healing — Responding to Structural Harm in the Workplace
Spark Magazine is seeking pitches for a new series examining the systems and structures that produce and perpetuate workplace harm. We invite writers to explore what rest, repair, and collective healing & wellness can look like in a culture that prioritizes productivity—and how we might reimagine workplaces to rejuvenate rather than extract.
Topics might explore:
-Resisting harmful structures and building collective, healing spaces in the workplace
-Frameworks and strategies for avoiding burnout
-The roles of culture, healing, extraction, rejuvenation, and redress in professional environments
-Mindful, reparative practices that center shared humanity in leadership and management
-Building and maintaining meaning, joy, connection, and pleasure in relation to labor
-Alternatives to the extractive workplace, e.g. envisioning or sharing examples of alternative workplace structures
Spark welcomes submissions from authors from a wide range of backgrounds, geographic locations, and cultural perspectives (Indigenous writers, writers from the Global South, community activists, academics, practitioners) who can help illuminate these questions for a broad public audience.
Pitches are due Monday, August 24.
Learn more and submit a pitch: https://myumi.ch/gk1mP
This series is curated by Dr. Tia Sherèe Gaynor, Associate Professor of Leadership and Management at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and an IMTA certified mindfulness instructor.
