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For Panorama's FIRE issue (November 2024), we invite submissions for the following nonfiction categories.

Travel memoir: we seek works of nonfiction travel memoir with a strong narrative arc. 1500 to 6000 words. Please send completed works to Nonfiction Editors Kerry Beth Neville, Samuel Autman, and Joelle Renstrom through the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to travelmemoir@panoramajournal.org, title email Fire/Travel Memoir.

Decolonising travel: For this issue, we’re seeking essays or visual stories that take us into, around, atop, or below the city. Sensory maps that offer new ways of experiencing neighbourhoods. Guides to navigating contested urban territories. Passage through ancient cities and floating cities. New takes on mythologised cities that have lured travellers for centuries. Meditations on megacities and temporary cities. Portraits of cities as characters. We are committed to working with underrepresented voices and those from the global majority, and seek writing that interrogates travel privilege and imperialist language. Please send completed works (preferably 1,000-3,000 words) to Decolonising Travel Editor Faith Adiele through the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to the work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to decolonisingtravel@panoramajournal.org, title email Fire/Decolonising Travel.

General and speculative nonfiction: we seek all forms of nonfiction writing. For FIRE, we are particularly interested in the crossing-over that travel provides, whether in the aspect of the journey or the destination. Share your literal or metaphorical journey. 1500-6000 words. Please send completed works to Nonfiction Editors Sarge Lacuesta, Tolu Daniel, and Tanya Ward Goodman through the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to nonfictioneditor@panoramajournal.org, title email Fire/Nonfiction

New nature writing is a genre-fluid form that encompasses memoir/travel/and nature writing with an especial foregrounding of the challenges of the Climate Crisis. It is a form that loves to transgress borders. We would be delighted to receive writing with an ethical dimension and ecological awareness that encourages the reader to mindfully negotiate the shared landscapes of the human and more-than-human. 1500-3000 words. Below your title include a 50-word ‘taster’ paragraph that captures the essence of the piece in italics. Think of this as the carny pitch to hook curious passersby. What will they experience inside? Please send completed works to the New Nature Writing Editor, Dr Kevan Manwaring through the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to newnaturewriting@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/New Nature Writing.

Travel flash: we seek short works of travel memoir and nonfiction for the Travel Flash section. Pieces must be between 150 and 300 words, after edits, and no longer than 350 words before edits. Preference will be given to those pieces that present a strong sense of detail and place and a fleshed-out narrative. Make every single word count. For the Fire issue, we are looking for work that highlights fire, in all its forms. There should be a focus on how fire impacts or affects human travel, in ways large or small, past, present, or future. Of special interest is a look at how our view of fire has evolved, or has remained constant, over time. Submit your work to Flash Editors Paula Read and Kristin Winet via the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to flasheditor@panoramajournal.org with the title Fire/Travel Flash.

Eaten: Eaten is Panorama’s take on blending gastronomy with travel. For this section, we are specifically looking for nonfiction pieces which explore a specific meal eaten while travelling, or a particular dish and its history as connected to travel. Personal narrative is encouraged and these are primarily experiential essays, although other approaches might be relevant in some works. We are especially interested in global and diverse perspectives for this section. Eaten requires self-awareness, a lack of exoticism, and an openness to sharing an experience, culture, or tradition, paired with travel. These in-depth glimpses inside place through food offer something fresh to our readers. In your Submission, please include the food you are writing about and be specific about the way it is associated to either your own travel or travel in a historical context. Word length is from 1500-3000 words. All submissions via the form below. Clarifying questions can be sent to eaten@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Eaten.

Streetview: we seek views from your own street, your neighbourhood, your town, or village. Travelling is more than visiting another place – it can happen anywhere, even close to home. We look forward to receiving essays that take familiar surroundings and everyday experiences, transforming them into something momentous, poignant, and universal. Pieces run from 1500 words to 2000 words. All submissions via the form below. Clarifying questions can be sent to streetview@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Streetview.

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For Panorama's FIRE issue (November 2024), we invite submissions for the following fiction sections.

Travel fiction: we seek works of fiction that reimagine fire. Fictional works must include a journey to a place. Hybrid works (a blending of fiction and nonfiction) will be considered as well as experimental works. We are open to science fiction submissions for this issue as well as earth-land sea-air fantastical journeys of any kind, as long as they are travelogue style and modelled on traditional journeys. 1500-3000 words. Please send completed works to Fiction Editor Vimi Bajaj through the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to fictioneditor@panoramajournal.org, and title email Fire/Travel Fiction.

Flash fiction: we seek short works of fiction or hybrid works for the Flash Fiction section. Pieces must be between 150 and 300 words, after edits, and no longer than 350 words before edits. Preference will be given to those pieces that present a strong sense of detail and place and a fleshed-out narrative. Make every word count. For the Fire issue, we are looking for work that highlights fire in all its forms. There should be a focus on how fire manifests, how it impacts or affects humans and/or place, in ways large or small, past, present, or future. We’re especially interested in fiction pieces that interrogate fire as metaphor or fire as a catalyst for change. Submit your work to Flash Editors Paula Read and Kristin Winet via the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to flasheditor@panoramajournal.org with the title Fire/Flash Fiction.

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For Panorama's FIRE issue (November 2024), we invite poetry submissions along the following lines.

Poetry: we seek poetry with a diversity of voices, formats, and flavours. 1-2 pages. Please send completed works to Senior Poetry Editors David Ishaya Osu and Devi Laskar and Poetry Editor Amanda White through the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to poetryeditor@panoramajournal.org, title email Fire/Poetry.

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For Panorama's FIRE issue (November 2024), we invite submissions for the following sections. 

Book reviews: we encourage reviews of all books that respond to FIRE literally or metaphorically. Reviews of recent titles are particularly encouraged, but we are also open to others. We would love to cover something by Barbara Kingsolver, Pat Barker, Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida), and Joan Didion. Also, Children of the Volcano by Ros Belford; A Deeper South by Pete Candler; and Open Throat by Henry Hoke. And Blood Meridian and/or The Road by Cormac McCarthy – on the destructive but redemptive power of drifting in the wake of revelation. Homages and tributes may be considered, if they convey the spirit of the manuscript they refer to. Poetry collection reviews are also welcome. Please submit your book reviews to Book Editor Nicolas Sampson via the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your review in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to bookseditor@panoramajournal.org, title the email: Fire/Book Review.

Book excerpts: we seek an excerpt from a book with a strong travelogue and explosive narrative, which we will reprint in the FIRE issue, max. 12 pages. We prefer material from an upcoming or recently published title, though older material will also be considered if it responds particularly well to the theme. Please submit your book excerpts to Book Editor Nicolas Sampson via the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to the excerpt in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to bookseditor@panoramajournal.org, title the email: Fire/Book Excerpt.

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For Panorama's FIRE issue (November 2024), we invite submissions for the following visual arts sections.

Photography: each issue, we publish two photo essays, one with accompanying text and one with an interview with the photographer. In this issue we are looking for many and varied responses to FIRE including but not limited to topographic works, and photojournalism. Please see past issues to get a sense of the images and direction, and send ten sample images or full photo essay—previously published or not—your portfolio website, an introduction to the work you have selected, and its connection to travel and the issue theme to Panorama’s Director, Matthew Webb using the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to matthew@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Photo Essay or Fire/Photo Interview.

Art moving image: artists who work with video are strongly encouraged to pitch their work for the journal. All submissions to Panorama’s Director, Matthew Webb using the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to matthew@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Art Moving Image.

Documentary film: documentary film provides a powerful, accessible narrative storytelling format. All submissions to Panorama’s Director, Matthew Webb using the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to matthew@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Documentary Film.

Video essays: following the success of Samuel Autman’s The Train Rolls On, we are delighted to open a general call for video essays. We are particularly looking for intensely personal, honest, and open responses to the world around us. All submissions to Panorama’s Director, Matthew Webb using the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to matthew@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Video Essay.

Exhibition reviews: have you visited an exhibition recently which has prompted ideas, thoughts, different ways of seeing? We would love to receive personal responses to exhibitions, group or solo shows which have inspired or challenged you. All submissions to Panorama’s Director, Matthew Webb using the form below. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your cover letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to matthew@panoramajournal.org, title email: Fire/Exhibition Reviews.