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For Panorama's ENCOUNTERS edition (November 2025), we invite submissions for the following nonfiction categories.

Travel memoir: we invite submissions of nonfiction travel memoirs, 1,500 to 6,000 words in length, with a strong and cohesive narrative arc. For this issue, we seek accounts of meaningful encounters—with people, places, or animals—that have altered your perspective or understanding of the world. We are particularly interested in work that reflects mutual exchange, where transformation is not one-sided but shared. We encourage narratives that move beyond surface description to explore the deeper connections and insights that arise from genuine engagement with unfamiliar environments. 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 Encounters/Travel Memoir.

Decolonising travel: for this issue, we seek essays, audio stories, narrative maps, comics, graphs, and other forms that reimagine what it means to encounter—and be encountered by—people, places, and cultures while travelling. We’re interested in stories that move beyond the colonial gaze of “discovery” to explore mutual recognition, unexpected intimacy, and the complex negotiations of identity that occur when bodies, histories, and worldviews intersect. We want writing that examines encounters as sites of both vulnerability and power—moments where travellers must reckon with their own assumptions and the ways they are perceived and received. Stories that explore what happens when the encounter changes the traveller as much as, or more than, the place being visited. Of particular interest: encounters that reveal hidden histories or challenge dominant narratives about place; meetings that complicate simple categories of insider/outsider, local/foreign, host/guest; moments of recognition across difference; and stories that interrogate how race, gender, class, and citizenship shape who gets to encounter whom, and on what terms. As always, we prioritise voices from the global majority and other marginalised voices. 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 Encounters/Decolonising Travel.

General and speculative nonfiction: we seek all forms of nonfiction writing. For ENCOUNTERS, 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 Encounters/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: Encounters/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, so keep it tight. For the ENCOUNTERS issue, we are looking for place-based/travel pieces that explore the unexpected, the uncomfortable, the unplanned, the detours that take a traveller to people, places, meetings, confrontations and resolutions that mark a revelatory fork in the road. Preference will be given to those pieces that present a strong sense of detail and place and a fleshed-out narrative. Submit your work to Flash Editor Paula Read 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 Encounters/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: Encounters/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. Give us a sense of place of somewhere close to you, in essays that take familiar surroundings and everyday experiences, and transform 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: Encounters/Streetview.

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For Panorama's ENCOUNTERS edition (November 2025), we invite submissions for the following fiction sections.

Travel fiction: we seek works of fiction that reimagine ENCOUNTERS. 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. Take that wherever it leads. 1500-3000 words. Please send completed works to Guest Fiction Editor Mehreen Ahmed 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 Encounters/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. Make every word count. For the ENCOUNTERS issue, we are looking for place-based stories that start in one direction and then find themselves going in another due to a singular encounter with a place, a person, a moment, or a thunderbolt of experience. Science fiction and experimental works are welcome. Preference will be given to those pieces that present a strong sense of detail and place and a fleshed-out narrative. Submit your work to Flash Editor Paula Read 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 Encounters/Travel Flash.

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For Panorama's ENCOUNTERS edition (November 2025), we invite poetry submissions along the following lines.

Poetry: we seek poetry with a diversity of style, voice, and form. 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). If you provide poems as individual, editable Word documents rather than protected PDFs, that would be much appreciated. Clarifying questions can be sent to poetryeditor@panoramajournal.org, title email Encounters/Poetry.

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For Panorama's ENCOUNTERS edition (November 2025), we invite submissions for the following sections. 

Book reviews: we encourage reviews of all books that respond to ENCOUNTERS literally or metaphorically. Reviews of recent titles are particularly encouraged, but we are also open to others. We would love to cover something by Eve Babitz and her astute, emotionally intelligent writing about place and people in SoCal, Elif Shafak and her latest novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky (but also any of her previous material), Hye-Young Pyun’s incisive novel The Hole, and Paulo Cuelho’s The Fifth Mountain. Also, anything by Haruki Murakami and his menagerie of wandering characters, whose bizarre encounters in sprawling and unreal topographies reveal so much about the real world. And Tim Winton, whose novels are punctuated with characters filled with curiosity and spirit. 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: Encounters/Book Review.

Book excerpts: we seek an excerpt from a book with a strong travelogue and explosive narrative, which we will reprint in the ENCOUNTERS 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: Encounters/Book Excerpt.

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For Panorama's ENCOUNTERS edition (November 2025), 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 ENCOUNTERS, including but not limited to street photography, portraiture, fine art, 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: Encounters/Photo Essay or Encounters/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: Encounters/Art Moving Image.

Documentary film: documentary film provides a powerful, accessible narrative storytelling format. All documentary film 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: Encounters/Documentary Film.

Video essays: we are particularly interested in 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: Encounters/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: Encounters/Exhibition Reviews.

Folio: for our ENCOUNTERS edition, we will be introducing a folio section. This will be an area to showcase a back catalogue of work by authors from Panorama. It will also be a section where we highlight work from authors we are yet to publish but whose published work is no longer accessible elsewhere. Many magazines and journals don't last so long—often burning brightly then fade or disaappear—so if you've been affected by a publication closing and would like to keep your work available, you retain rights to your work and feel Panorama would be a good home, please do put your work forward and we'll have a look. Clarifying questions can be sent to matthew@panoramajournal.org, title email: Panorama Folio.