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PFN – Call for Submissions to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature. Theme: Paris
Issue 15: Paris
July 2025 issue: Paris
Opens for submissions 1st May 2025 and closes for submissions 14th June 2025.
Paris has been the site of opulence, resistance, rebellion, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers, philosophy and philosophers. In this issue, our PARIS edition, we are looking for writing which connects with the Parisian city streets, the arrondissements, the banlieues—from the gilet jaune to haute couture, to anything that responds to the idealised, imagined, or very real versions of Paris.
Sections open to the public for the PARIS issue:
General and speculative nonfiction: we seek all forms of nonfiction writing. For PARIS, 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 Submittable. 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 Paris/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 Submittable. 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: Paris/New Nature Writing.
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 Paris issue, we are looking for place-based/travel pieces that explore navigating difficulty, whether that means physically, emotionally, politically, environmentally, or all of the above. Submit your work to Flash Editor Paula Read via Submittable. 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 Paris/Flash Fiction.
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 Submittable. Include a short bio and introduction to your work in your covr letter or submission document(s). Clarifying questions can be sent to poetryeditor@panoramajournal.org, title email Paris/Poetry.
Guidance
We require a cover letter for all submissions, with certain information provided [introduction, background, publication history, social handles]. We also ask that all submitted work be sent as a Word Doc attachment, double-spaced, with page numbers. We are unable to accept work within emails, or sent as PDFs. We regret that due to the number of submissions we receive, submissions that do not meet our guidelines are declined. For more on our guidelines, read our FAQs and Submissions page. All emails should be sent to the section editor as indicated, and titled as requested. By following our guidelines, you can help us accept your work more quickly. Thank you.
Due to the number of submissions we receive, and our goal of publishing as many writers as possible, writers may only submit or query one work per issue. If your submission or query is declined for an issue, and the submission call is still open, you can submit another work or query again to that issue. Please submit all work via Submittable.