November 11, 2026

Call for Submissions: Mizna 28.1

Open Friday, November 20 through Friday, December 21, 2026 (11:59pm CT)

Open call—Mizna 28.1 welcomes writing on any theme. 

We seek work which explores the realities related to the SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) sphere both in the region and in diaspora. We especially welcome writing in relation to SWANA people and places which are currently targeted by empire and tyranny, from Palestine to Sudan and beyond.

Submissions open Friday, November 20 through Friday, December 18 at 11:59pm CT, 2026. Unsolicited submissions sent outside of this timeframe will be discarded.

Contributors

Contributors do not need to be SWANA- or Arab-identified and can be based anywhere in the world, but work submitted should be considerate of Mizna’s ethos and the social realities of our audiences, as well as aim to contribute to ongoing conversations in and beyond our communities. While we welcome submissions from former contributors seeking a space for their work in this urgent moment, we also especially encourage submissions from writers who have never been published by us before. We encourage submitters to become familiar with work that has been published in Mizna before submitting work.

Forms of Writing

Mizna has long been a home for literature with innovative, experimental forms and is published with high quality print production practices. We welcome visual poetry submissions or hybrid works that cross the arbitrary boundaries of genre. In general, literary works of poetry, visual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, comics, collage, invented forms, and any forms of mixed print or hybrid work will be accepted, with consideration to the physical parameters of our print journal, technical staff, and budget. We do not consider visual art submissions.

Read the full submission guidelines here