Explore Your Creative Spirit With Fourth World
We bring writers, thinkers, and dreamers from all walks of life to collaborate and inspire. Our creative arts journal are more than outlets for expression. They’re where ideas truly come to life.
What is Fourth World?
At Fourth World, we’re more than a nonprofit. We’re a creative movement. Founded as a 501(c)3 organization, we publish a unique, collaborative journal that spans the arts, philosophy, science, and beyond. But our mission doesn’t stop at the page. We’re passionate about bringing people together through creative expression.
We believe in the power of collaborative creativity to change lives. Whether you’re an artist, a writer, a teacher, or simply someone who loves to explore new ideas, there’s a place for you in our community. Together, we can build a world where creativity knows no borders.
Explore our journal, participate in our community events, and help us continue to support creative expression across the globe.
Our Journals for Purchase
These creative journals are delivered digitally (via your email) after check-out.
Fourth World Learning Consortium
Explore events like musical performances, art showcases, and philosophical discussions. We bring innovative Learning Exchanges and foster an environment where creativity thrives.
Promoting Creative Habits
We worry that many of our modern vices, including a love for technological super-saturation, have made the world cognitively and creatively narrow, a frenetic and yet less authentically human place.
This contemporary rush towards instantaneous, mass-communication paired with a shortage of meaningful human encounters and a loss of leisurely reading and creative habits have all conspired, to give us little time for the reflective practices which have helped all democratic civilizations thrive: reading, writing and creative exchange with others.
Fourth World is concerned that if our society forgets to continue to develop, sustain and promote new forms of group reflection and creative expression, we also risk becoming unimaginative, machine-dependent. Isolated with one another, would we grow unable to productively associate at all? Globally we have seen, in just one generation (COVID-19 pandemic), a drastic decrease in interpersonal interactions (including all-important mealtime conversations) and this is having significant consequences for today’s cyber-generations. We are always “connected” but yet suffer from staggering rates of isolation and a lack of meaningful social interactions.
