SAGE has a long and proud tradition of print journalism. Slow reads, mesmerizing art, and the beauty of holding words in hands are core to our history.

Below we present the SAGE Magazine archive. Click through to download back issues filled with visual art, short fun pieces, critical narratives, and long, thoughtful reads.

  • Call for Submissions: Eclipsed Ecologies

    Annual print edition submission deadline is January 5. Prize amounts from $250 to $500.

    Call for Submissions: Eclipsed Ecologies
  • 2024 Print Edition

    KINSHIP IN THE HEAT of a midsummer day, I wade into the glacial waters of my favorite alpine lake. I’ve been swimming here for as long as I can remember. Floating on my back, I look up at the open sky, which is framed by the silhouettes of spruce and pine. The world seems as…

    2024 Print Edition
  • 2023 Print Edition

    Ecological Memory The loss of memory can be devastating. Last year, SAGE published our first print magazine since 2020. It was a massive undertaking, clouded by uncertainty. The one-year hiatus had halted the transfer of institutional memory. Our team had to rebuild SAGE nearly from scratch. This year, we’ve carried that momentum with us, patchworking…

    2023 Print Edition
  • 2022 Print Edition

    CULTIVATION Cultivation: the act of caring for living things of all kinds.Cultivation: tilling, tending to, and turning pieces of the world over and over in our minds’ eyes. Agriculture and, in its most literal sense, cultivation is so many things at once: a carbon source and sink, an engine of profit and debt, a tool…

    2022 Print Edition

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