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✦ CALLING FOR WORKS ✦

✦ PREVIOUS CALL ✦

Issue One: Elsewhere

Closing Date: 01/01/2026

Please stay tuned for our inaugural call for works.

Thank you for your patience.

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?

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For more information about submitting a work to us, please see our
Submission Guidelines and our Publishing Agreement.

Please be aware that we only accept submissions via the online submission form below.

✦ SUBMISSION FORM ✦

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please create an individual submission for each work.

Before submitting your work, we strongly encourage you to read our
Submission Guidelines and Standards of Content.

Submissions found in violation of our submissions guidelines and
standards of content may be disqualified from consideration.

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