{"id":7448,"date":"2025-10-06T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=7448"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:59:04","slug":"pfn-panorama-the-journal-of-travel-place-and-nature-seeking-submissions-on-encounters","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/pfn-panorama-the-journal-of-travel-place-and-nature-seeking-submissions-on-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"PFN – Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature Seeking Submissions on: Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"

We publish contemporary, literary-themed travel works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We are looking for exquisite, rich, surprising work capable of unbinding readers from their expectations and routines. Make us get lost on a journey in your hometown. Be the verbal cartographer of your own exile. Bring us the fictional realities of characters who take us places we can\u2019t go on our own. Offer us poetry that leaves us stranded in the natural world. Most of all, write evocative, experiential, descriptive prose that takes our readers with you, and confirms our belief in the power of place. We have a particular interest in travel memoir, real or imagined, but we invite memoir with an edge. This is not the place for traditional travel memoir: give us something different.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0FAQs<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Submissions<\/a>\u00a0page. 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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Submittable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Poetry:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\u00a0Encounters\/Poetry<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fiction:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Travel fiction:\u00a0<\/strong>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\u00a0Encounters\/Travel Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Flash fiction:<\/strong>\u00a0we 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\u00a0Encounters\/Travel Flash<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Travel memoir:<\/strong>\u00a0we 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\u2014with people, places, or animals\u2014that 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\u00a0Encounters\/Travel Memoir<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Decolonising travel<\/strong>: for this issue, we seek essays, audio stories, narrative maps, comics, graphs, and other forms that reimagine what it means to encounter\u2014and be encountered by\u2014people, places, and cultures while travelling. We\u2019re interested in stories that move beyond the colonial gaze of \u201cdiscovery\u201d 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\u2014moments 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\u00a0Encounters\/Decolonising Travel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

General and speculative nonfiction:<\/strong>\u00a0we 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\u00a0Encounters\/Nonfiction<\/em><\/p>\n

New nature writing<\/strong>\u00a0is 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 \u2018taster\u2019 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:\u00a0Encounters\/New Nature Writing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Travel flash:<\/strong>\u00a0we 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\u00a0Encounters\/Travel Flash<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Eaten:<\/strong>\u00a0Eaten is Panorama\u2019s 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:\u00a0Encounters\/Eaten<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Streetview:<\/strong>\u00a0we seek views from your own street, your neighbourhood, your town, or village. Travelling is more than visiting another place \u2013 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:\u00a0Encounters\/Streetview<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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