Submissions
Global City Review is an annual online and print publication. Each issue is organized around a broad theme and includes stories, poems, memoirs, interviews, essays, and artwork.
After a short hiatus, Global City Review is back and is now accepting submissions for Issue 26. The designated theme for forthcoming Issue 26 is: Impermanence of Home. The open submission period for Impermanence of Home ends October 15, 2025.
In All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou writes: “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” For many of us, however, there is no home to return to. Or what was once home has become unrecognizable. As we barrel further into the 21st Century, the precarity of refuge comes into sharper focus. Environmental catastrophe, political and economic upheaval, the enduring vestiges of colonialism, rapidly evolving digital realities and the normalization of violence, dispossession, and psychic unrest all contribute to its disappearance.
Global City Review is now accepting submissions for our 26th issue, titled Impermanence of Home. This issue invites contributors to consider the emotional, political, and physical dimensions of home in flux. We’re interested in stories, essays, poems, interviews, and artwork that explore how sanctuary—whether a person, place, memory, language, or idea—can be lost, reshaped, reimagined, or even fabricated.
We’re especially interested in work that addresses displacement and alienation in their many forms. Potential areas of focus include:
- Environmental collapse and ecological change
- Forced migration, exile, and statelessness
- Censorship, surveillance, and the erosion of free expression
- Housing insecurity, gentrification, and urban dislocation
- Cultural memory, ancestral loss, and intergenerational rupture
- Digital disorientation, AI fatigue, and virtual estrangement
- Imagined or speculative forms of refuge
Writers are encouraged to engage with both real and imagined geographies of impermanence.
We publish:
short fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir (up to 15 double spaced pages)
poetry (up to 5 poems; please format and submit as a single document)
interviews and essays (up to 15 double spaced pages)
artwork in various mediums
We accept simultaneous submission. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we ask you inform us immediately.
No multiple submissions. Please only send one submission per reading period.
We publish original, previously unpublished work.
Format:
All manuscripts must be double spaced and numbered.
To be included on the first page of your submission:
your name;
contact information;
genre;
word count; and
one to three sentences about how the work speaks to the designated theme of the forthcoming issue.
We accept .doc, .docx, and google doc formats.
Submit here (through our Duotrope page):
Upon acceptance of submissions, GCR acquires the standard first serial publication rights. Each issue will be archived online indefinitely, but both print and online rights revert to authors upon publication.
We strive to respond to your work in a timely manner. If you have not received notification within three months of submitting, please contact us.
