New World Journal positions itself as a venue for fiction, creative nonfiction, and research essays that enlarge the reader's world through physical experience, unforgettable places, and journeys of intellectual or spiritual consequence. The journal's editorial vision is articulated in three principles: physicality, time and place, and intellectual or spiritual seriousness. These criteria suggest a curatorial stance that favors narrative embodiment over abstraction, and that treats setting as constitutive rather than decorative. The call for novellas extends this vision to a longer form, inviting writers to sustain a world across extended prose. The journal is less interested in genre than in vision, indicating an openness to speculative, literary, or hybrid approaches provided the work remains grounded in the tangible and the particular. Publication is online, with no fee to submit, and the deadline is rolling—a structure that respects the writer's process while maintaining an ongoing editorial conversation. While no prize or payment is specified, the journal's emphasis on vision over category suggests a curatorial commitment to work that resists easy classification. Writers should consider how their novella engages with weather, distance, labor, and the body; how its setting could not be exchanged for another; and how it pursues meaning beyond mere plot. The journal's online format allows for a global readership, but the work itself must remain rooted in the real.