Vela wins 2 (!!) Silver Medals in this year’s Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing
The results are out this morning for this year’s Best Travel Writing Awards from Solas/Travelers’ Tales (read the full line-up here) and Vela Magazine…
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Touring the Revolution
he green hills from which the Zapatistas descended to take San Cristóbal nearly twenty years earlier looked wet and blurred outside the windows in…
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A Year of Vela
Today, September 6, 2012, we at Vela celebrate the first anniversary of the magazine.There is much to come, but before we get to all of…
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Refuge in Shroom Country
When Ella was 14, she asked her Lutheran pastor if he believed in God. Ella’s skepticism of organized religion had been growing…
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A Letter to My Thirties
Dear Thirties,
You are a centrifugal force to be reckoned with: this, I concede from the outset.
The Morning Song
You are riding in the back of a pickup truck. You come face to face with…a chicken. It is fluorescent purple, and stuffed with candy.
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Proof of Extreme Hardship
was almost there, barreling along I-54 through the valleys where the New Mexican plateau drops and the land pours a deep, scarred red around…
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Down and Out in West Texas
We were checking in when a woman came storming out of her room to the desk and said, “There’s shit on them sheets.”
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The Revolution
There was an art opening at the Centro Fotográfico the Friday the federal troops came. I went out to the Hotel Victoria for piña coladas with a few friends beforehand.
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Written by Women
On the eve of Vela’s launch in September 2011, Sarah Menkedick sat down and wrote out her vision for the magazine. Vela has grown…
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