Current call for submissions

For this issue of Magma, we ask that you send us your poems that carry an expressed spirit rendered so differently that they are a new thing. -----“You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you know where you…

UPDATE Fri 4th April: Our submission limit for submitting to Magma 93 'Liberation' on Submittable has now been reached. We are able to accept postal submissions as long as they’re postmarked 5 April at the latest. Please follow instructions below…

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…