While the journal seeks submissions that look at the likes of Sasquatch and Montana's own Flathead Lake Monster, the editors encourage artists to dig deeper into the human soul. What monsters lurk inside us? How big and strange is creation anyway -- the real pageant of creatures? How does wilderness help us work with our own demons?
"In good literary fashion we stole this idea from our friend, author Douglas H. Chadwick," said Schott. "To make it up to him, we're going to celebrate his wild mind with a literary event about the rarest bears on the planet."