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✹ POSTCARDS: SUBMISSIONS ✹

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!

DEADLINE: September 12th 2025