NAVIGATIONS is a new online journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, inspired by the editors’ correspondence with poets and friends. In addition to publishing a range of poetry, they also favor epistolary writing, writing about place, road poems, collaborations, responses, and experimental essays. You can read the first issue online to get a sense of what they publish.
The first issue of NAVIGATIONS features ten pieces of writing, including seven poems. It’s notable that two of the pieces are collaborations, one of which is a series of letters. There is also a piece of short prose and another epistolary piece with photographs. The journal is thoughtfully designed with a minimalist aesthetic and easy to navigate.
NAVIGATIONS is open to submissions right now, and authors may submit up to six pages of writing. They accept poems of all types, essays, narrative nonfiction, short stories, and flashes. No guidelines are given for length.
NAVIGATIONS accepts submissions via email, not online or by post. They accept simultaneous submissions but ask that authors withdraw writing published elsewhere. They do not accept previously published work.
NAVIGATIONS only accepts submissions that follow the guidelines they’ve posted online. Please read these guidelines in full before submitting.
If you would like to learn more or submit to NAVIGATIONS, please visit their website here.
Bio: Ella Peary is the pen name of an internationally published author and editor. After earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, she lived as a monastic for five years. She now lives as a lay monastic, and teaches poetry, flash fiction, and literary publishing at the Authors Publish Writers Workshop. Her writing has been published in Room, The Apple Valley Review, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. And a number of full-length manuscripts she’s edited have received major international awards, including The Best Graphic Novel of the Year (Comics Finlandia), The Montaigne Medal, and The National Indie Excellence Awards. She’s also a long-time literary journal reviewer and editor at Authors Publish Magazine.
