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Very Specific Extended Call

We’re extending our open call for photography submissions on any subject and non-fiction pitches that touch upon the following themes:

• The impact on adventure tourism in the Himalayas, especially regarding Mount Everest. The hidden labour behind luxury trekking (porters, cooks, guides, etc.) • Cosmetic tourism in Turkey and how it has reshaped neighbourhoods & healthcare for locals

• The afterlife of film tourism in New Zealand post-Lord of the Rings • The impacts of voluntourism in places like Cambodia, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, or any other place with a high rate of volunteer-abroad tourists Everything else in our previous call still applies: we want sharp, human, and surprising perspectives that resist the easy story. You can read it below! NEW DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30th

Previous Open Call:

POSTCARDS is a literary travel magazine that rejects tourism and embraces culture.

While most traditional travel magazines take the perspective of the tourist, we want to visit places from the inside. We’re looking for local perspectives that talk about global themes. Take us somewhere only you can!

Send us any type of art that can be printed — non-fiction, fiction, photography, poetry, interviews, collage, recipes, illustration, comics, you name it. As long as it challenges ideas about travel, culture and tourism, it’s welcome.

We’re looking for observant, weird, lively, funny work. Think…

• A St. Patrick’s Day story from an Irish pub in Mongolia

• A report about how the Alaskan town of Kodiak changed after Pitbull's concert there

• A dispatch from a ghost tour company’s staff office

• A day through the eyes of someone who’s usually treated as scenery (e.g. a gondolier, a sherpa, a Parisian mime)

• Interior design analysis on the reforms of those Italian countryside houses that sold for 1€

• Short fiction about arriving home with someone else’s luggage

• Poetry with a sense of place AND something to say (here’s a great example)

• Adapting your grandma’s recipe from the other side of the world

• A pub conversation with local fishermen about environmentalism

Please do not send hacks, lists, top 10s, "travel horror stories" about "weird" customs/food, "I went to [developing country] and learned empathy", or "I'm so sad in a cabin".

We’re especially interested in underrepresented voices and people writing from their own communities. Don't worry if English isn't your first language, you'll be working with an editor!