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​​For our July 2026 issue, we have chosen the theme of BELONGING, followed by TIME in November. Themes for 2027 will be announced later this year.

July 2026 issue: Belonging

Opens for submissions 15th April 2026 and closes for submissions 14th June 2026.

There are obvious belongings: to one’s family, school, congregation, neighbourhood. Or perhaps to one’s boxing club, gang, faction, writers’ circle.

Where we belong says as much about ourselves as our circumstances. Do we belong to a political party? Maybe. Do we act like we do? Sure. And, what happens when we don’t belong? When life has dealt us a rotten card? Loneliness? Maybe. A search for one’s tribe? Sounds like a plan. Non-belonging can be hard, to feel isolation, yet anyone can find others with similar interests and outlook online (or in person), wherever in the world they may be and however good-natured or abhorrent their views or actions are. It’s easy to find people and groups that conform to our own prejudices, date people who belong to our same social and economic groups—the digital world makes it so.

Belonging can be dangerous if membership of a group is more important than doing the right thing, not thinking about what is said, what is published, or why someone is encouraging a particular rhetoric or view of the world. Writers belong everywhere. Photographers belong everywhere. Witnesses belong everywhere. Yet, recent years have been notoriously dangerous for people who keep a real record, holding powerful and increasingly violent actors to account. Belonging can be small and local or apply to nations or continental groups, can be bridled with a link so strong it allows almost anything to be done in one’s name, but belonging also provides a voice for everyone to transform those groups in which they belong, starting with, we hope, by reflecting, writing and talking.

In this issue, we are looking for all manners of belonging, in the physical world, in the digital worlds, amongst nature, within cities, permanent belongings as well as temporary, whether you have published with us before, whether you have published at all, or would just like to respond through our new Letters section which provides space for all to contribute. We hope to hear from you!

Please see our FAQs and Submissions pages for more information, and for specific sections and submission length and information, read on below. All submissions should follow our Style Guide. We will not accept queries or pitches, only completed works previously unpublished, with the exception of visual arts and book excerpt selections.