About lake journal

Lake publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, reviews and visual arts related to the environment. We are committed to high production values, a contemporary design, and an editorial vision that is in search of exceptional art and thought. We are looking for invigorating, controversial and meditative works that are about our relation to the natural world.

Lake's emblem, the hexagram called "The Joyous, Lake," is taken from an ancient Chinese oracular text, the I Ching, or Book of Changes. Part of the admonition of this hexagram is that "knowledge should be a refreshing and vitalizing force. It becomes so only with congenial friends with whom one holds discussion and practices application of the truths of life." The hexagram reminds us of ancient wisdom, global connection, and of the local since the singular geographical feature of the valley where this journal has found its life is Okanagan Lake.

Lake is housed in the UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. We gratefully acknowledge the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan for support and start-up funding.