Star
A refuge for all blackbirds scorned for their voice and struggling to find a home –
Nighthawk Star is a World Philosophies and Literatures magazine that gives voice to marginalised perspectives.
✦ SUBMISSIONS OPEN ✦
✦ UPCOMING ISSUE ✦
Issue One: Elsewhere
Launch Date: 01/04/2026
We are happy to announce that we are now preparing for our inaugural issue.
We are looking for pieces that tackle philosophical themes and inquire into the deeper facets of life.
We accept all genres of writing, including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and philosophical essays.
We are accept works of art, including scans or photographs of physical mediums, digitally created art, as well as photography.
For more information about submissions, please visit our submissions page.
As an adverb or pronoun, ‘elsewhere’ immediately brings to mind the notions of space, place, and alterity. In Miyazawa Kenji’s short story, Nighthawk escapes oppression and finds his ‘elsewhere’ in the form of an everlasting blue star in the night sky, a metaphor for nirvana. The mission of our magazine is all about finding and building that alternative space for silenced voices. For the inaugural issue of Nighthawk Star, we are looking for writings and art on this very theme. We want stories, characters, ideas, theories, and images that explore what it means to be from elsewhere, going elsewhere, or even just being elsewhere.
What becomes of us and our voices, when we are not confined to the here —
somewhere we take for granted?
If you would like to purchase this issue or subscribe to our magazine, please visit our issues page.
If you would like to contribute some other way towards this very exciting development,
please visit our donations page.
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