Current call for submissions

We are excited to be inviting submissions for Magma 98: the Doubt issue. We want you to explore doubt from a range of different angles and perspectives. This could mean poems that explore doubt in the truth. Is there something…

** DEADLINE EXTENDED **   The West in me wants the mansion to last. The African knows it cannot. — Nicole Sealey This issue of Magma aims to highlight and celebrate the best of Black poetry in the UK and…

There is a continuous, mutual impact between the Antarctic and our daily lives, yet the majority of us will never physically be there. Imagined centuries before it was discovered, Antarctica is an idea as much as a geographical place. Owned…

Co-edited by Leo Boix and Stav Poleg * This forthcoming issue of Magma grows out of our collaboration with architecture scholars which began during a conference at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in Spring 2025. The conference, Poetic Spatial Writing,…

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…