Theme: CROSSINGS
Expected Publication Date: January 1, 2027
“A UK home for global majority, diasporan, and migrant writers. Amplifying diverse voices and their transitional experiences.”
About the Theme
Borders are drawn on maps, but lived in the body, the memory, and the spirit. For Issue 1, our inaugural theme is “Crossings.”
We are looking for work that explores what it means to move, transition, and navigate the spaces between identities, geographies, cultures, and states of being. Whether literal or metaphorical—physical migrations across oceans, psychological shifts across time, the crossing of thresholds, languages, or social divides—we want stories that map the complex, unvarnished human experience of transition.
What We Are Looking For
We welcome submissions across all literary categories (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, and visual art/photography) from global majority, diasporan, and migrant writers and our creative allies from all backgrounds.
- The Issue 1 Selection: The final digital issue will feature a curated, competitive selection across the various categories
- The TRANSITUS Pipeline: Because we believe every vital story deserves a home, all submitted works that are not selected for the inaugural issue will be automatically considered for publication on our ongoing digital blog.
Guidelines
- Eligibility: Open to all
- Categories & Length Requirements:
- Poetry: 1 to 3 poems, no special formatting, and no longer than 40 lines each.
- Essays: 800 to 2500 words.
- Critical Reviews: 400 to 600 words.
- Short stories: 100 to 2000 words.
- Visual art/photography: 3–5 images with individual titles and descriptive captions or collective descriptive essays.
Additional Rules:
- Submissions across multiple categories are allowed.
- Include a short author bio (and socials if interested)
- Submissions can be sent via https://transitus.uk/submissions/ with the subject/title ‘CROSSINGS ISSUE’.
- Fees & Compensation: There is currently no submission fee and no payment for accepted works, although we hope to pay our contributors in the future.
- Editing: Please edit your works before submission. Works may be further edited for publication but will be sent back to you for approval before going live.
Copyright & Rights:
We believe in author ownership: copyright remains entirely with you. If your work is later republished elsewhere, we ask that you give a polite nod to Transitus as the original home of first publication.
Share your voice with us. We are building this space together, and we cannot wait to read the maps of your journeys, the stories of your thresholds, and the beauty of your crossings. Welcome home.
The TRANSITUS Team
