Submit to our Special Feature themed on Outsiders (we welcome both English originals and translations into English)

You may submit short fiction, literary nonfiction (in both cases, send no more than 5,000 words by one author in total), or poetry (send up to ten pages by one poet only). For this Special Feature, we will make an exception and consider works originally written in English as well as works translated into English.

“Import the third world. Become the third world.” = the latest ghastly meme courtesy of Trump. As a journal of translation that gathers new writing from upward of 30 countries in each issue, the very essence of “linguistic hospitality” (as coined by Paul Ricœur) is very much in our DNA; now, for an upcoming Special Feature, we would like to extend this spirit of hospitality to the figure of the outsider—be it a migrant, refugee, or anyone otherwise othered. We seek fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction—written originally in English or translated into English—centering the figure of the outsider.