Calls for submissions

We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either in print or online. Poems may be sent online via Submittable, or by post if you live in the UK or Ireland, to: Magma 93 Submissions, 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton,…

The British artist Michael Landy once destroyed everything he owned – toothbrush, love letters, his dad’s old sheepskin coat, all 7,000 items he owned – as part of his performance artwork ‘Break Down’. Catharsis? Personal sacrifice? Or an examination of…

In the Flesh: a phrase that has many connotations: those of being born, those of being in and experiencing your own body as it ages and changes. In the Flesh speaks to health and illness, life, death, recovery and regeneration,…

The submissions window for ‘Grassroots’ is open from 1 – 31 March 2024. ** Grassroots What does Grassroots mean to you? Community? Activism? Environmentalism? Or something else? At a time of unprecedented global turmoil where our political elites struggle to…

The submissions window for ‘Performance’ is open from 4 December 2023 –  4 January 2024. ** Performance All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man…

The submission period opens on 1 July, 2023 ‘The history of the atmosphere is recorded in the subsurface: in the sediments of the deep seas, in deep peat bogs and lakes, in the air bubbles in the ice caps of…

Editors Niall Campbell, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Fiona Moore welcome poems that haven’t been previously published in print or online, on the theme of Islands.   We also hope to discover poems by island poets around the world, from Madagascar to…

FOOD: Magma x Vittles "It's so beautifully arranged on the plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it.” Julia Child Food is one of the great commonalities. No matter who we are, or where or when we're from,…

Magma 85: Poems for schools Edited by Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Laurie Smith and Gill Ward. The submissions window for ‘Poems for schools’ is open from 1st July to 31st July 2022. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either…

* The submissions window for ‘Physics’ is open from 1st March – 31st March 2022. Magma 84 on the theme of physics is edited by Susannah Hart and Stav Poleg. We welcome poems that have not been previously published, either…