The theme of the ninth issue of the The Continental Literary Magazine is BORDERS. We are all enclosed by borders. We merely have to glance the daily papers to stumble across different forms of borders everywhere: in the political news we see border fences and border-defending wars; in economic news we’re told of the limitations of our infrastructures, in ecological news the limitations of our ecosystem’s tolerance; self-help marketing materials encourage us to step outside our comfort zones; while the tabloid press write about which latest public display overstepped the lines of good taste. At every level our existence is surrounded by borders, and these are sometimes as limiting as they are essential. Art and literature are a (well-marked) territory that offers safe passage for crossing borders.
The Continental Literary Magazine is an English-language literary magazine. The magazine focuses on the literature of Central Europe with the aim of creating a platform for contemporary Hungarian and Central European fiction writers to stake out their place in the English-reading world and, in particular, the North American literary market. It is published quarterly in the United States and the United Kingdom and sold in the largest bookstore chains, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million (BAM!) and WHSmith.
For the BORDERS issue of the Continental Literary Magazine we are looking for writing that reflects on the nature of the borders that define our being, be they personal and spiritual, geographic and political, concrete and abstract. We would like to invite you, for our 2023 winter issue to send us minimum 1, maximum 3 previously unpublished poem(s)/submission about the topic of Borders in English.
Send us your text, become an author for The Continental get published for American readers!
Become a member of the prestigious circle of Noam Chomsky, Marina Abramović, Fran Lebowitz, Roxane Gay, Judith Newman, Daphne Merkin, Mircea Cărtărescu, Krisztina Tóth, Béla Markó, Zsófia Balla, István Kemény, János Háy, Zsuzsa Takács, Andrea Tompa, Tomáš Zmeškal, Silvester Lavrík, or Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki.
The deadline for submissions is 4 September, 2023.
For every accepted manuscript (be it a one- or three-poem-package) we pay our authors an honorarium of 350 USD. We would buy the exclusive publishing rights of the text for two years for our print and/or online platform.
We send personalized answer to every author within 30 days after submission deadline. Authors of not accepted submissions will also get a compensation.
We are looking forward to receiving submissions from all over the world!
The theme of the ninth issue of the The Continental Literary Magazine is BORDERS. We are all enclosed by borders. We merely have to glance the daily papers to stumble across different forms of borders everywhere: in the political news we see border fences and border-defending wars; in economic news we’re told of the limitations of our infrastructures, in ecological news the limitations of our ecosystem’s tolerance; self-help marketing materials encourage us to step outside our comfort zones; while the tabloid press write about which latest public display overstepped the lines of good taste. At every level our existence is surrounded by borders, and these are sometimes as limiting as they are essential. Art and literature are a (well-marked) territory that offers safe passage for crossing borders.
The Continental Literary Magazine is an English-language literary magazine. The magazine focuses on the literature of Central Europe with the aim of creating a platform for contemporary Hungarian and Central European fiction writers to stake out their place in the English-reading world and, in particular, the North American literary market. It is published quarterly in the United States and the United Kingdom and sold in the largest bookstore chains, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million (BAM!) and WHSmith.
For the BORDERS issue of the Continental Literary Magazine we are looking for writing that reflects on the nature of the borders that define our being, be they personal and spiritual, geographic and political, concrete and abstract. We would like to invite you, for our 2023 winter issue, to write a maximum 2000-word (15 000-18 000-character), previously unpublished essay, short story, or other preferred genre of prose work about the topic of Borders in English.
Send us your text, become an author for The Continental get published for American readers!
Become a member of the prestigious circle of Noam Chomsky, Marina Abramović, Fran Lebowitz, Roxane Gay, Judith Newman, Daphne Merkin, Mircea Cărtărescu, Krisztina Tóth, Béla Markó, Zsófia Balla, István Kemény, János Háy, Zsuzsa Takács, Andrea Tompa, Tomáš Zmeškal, Silvester Lavrík, or Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki.
The deadline for submissions is 4 September, 2023.
For every accepted manuscripts we pay our authors an honorarium of 1000 USD. We would buy the exclusive publishing rights of the text for two years for our print and/or online platform.
We send personalized answer to every author within 30 days after submission deadline. Authors of not accepted submissions will also get a compensation.
We are looking forward to receiving submissions from all over the world!