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✨ Call for Submissions: Issue 17: Grief, Gratitude, Glory ✨https://www.thepolyglotmagazine.com/submitIn partnership with...
11/20/2025

✨ Call for Submissions: Issue 17: Grief, Gratitude, Glory ✨

https://www.thepolyglotmagazine.com/submit

In partnership with the Philippine Edmonton Events and Arts Society (PHIDEAS), The Polyglot is thrilled to open submissions for a special joint issue exploring collective intercultural understandings of grief, gratitude, and glory.

📅 Deadline: January 16, 2026
💰 Honorarium: $100 CAD
🎨 Guest Editors: Candice Joy Oliva & April Angeles
🌏 Open to: Alberta-based & international multicultural writers and artists

We welcome:

📝 Poetry (up to 3 pieces)
📚 Prose (up to 2000 words)
🌐 Translations (with source text & rights letter)
🎨 Visual art (up to 5 pieces)
🎧 Multimedia & hybrid works

Submissions can be in any language or mix of languages, and we especially encourage work in, or featuring, underrepresented and endangered languages.

You’ll also submit:
🖋️ A short artist statement (200 words)
👤 A brief bio (200 words)

💡 Accessibility: Writers and artists living with disabilities and/or for whom English is difficult are welcome to contact us for submission support.
✉️ [email protected]

📍 Alberta-based contributors will be invited to an in-person launch in Spring 2026.
🎉 Funding for this issue comes from the Alberta Ethnocultural Grant as part of PHIDEAS’s LIFT: Let us Imagine a Future Together.

Art Credit: Puno ng Pag-Ibig (Full of Love/Tree of Love) — Ting Pimentel-Elger & attendees of “HILOM: Healing Together,” August 2025.

Edmonton Filipino Fiesta Read Alberta Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Candice Joy Oliva

Last day to submit, youth! 👀
11/01/2025

Last day to submit, youth! 👀

Our launch today at may be sold out, but you can still enjoy The Polyglot Issue 15: Daaira today.Head to our website (t...
10/18/2025

Our launch today at may be sold out, but you can still enjoy The Polyglot Issue 15: Daaira today.

Head to our website (thepolyglotmagazine.com) to download a digital copy ($12) and enjoy instant access to these beautiful stories, poems, artworks, and essays.

Stay tuned for more options to purchase your print copy in Edmonton and beyond!

✨ Guest edited by Aaima Azhar and Zainab Azhar, founders of , this issue has been lovingly curated to capture what is well and unwell within us all.

🌀 Meaning "circle" in Urdu and Arabic, 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒂 embodies the cyclical nature of healing through ritual and remembrance.

Contributors:
April Angeles
Tamara Aschenbrenner
Muhammad Azhar
The Calamansi Club
Leilei Chen 莫譯
Luciana Erregue-Sacchi
Ohona Anjum Jui
Niabi Kapoor .k
Maryam Lary
Yannis Lobaina
Khashayar Kess Mohammadi
Qudus Olanrewaju Ojikutu
Siham Salah
Silly (Illyana Cardinal)
Angeline Teoh Simon .teohsimon

Layout & Design: Brett Boyd
Managing Editor: Lauren Carter
Cover Image: Zainab Azhar .azh

We asked four publishers championing multilingual, multicultural, and hyphenated voices — The Polyglot, Laberinto Press,...
10/18/2025

We asked four publishers championing multilingual, multicultural, and hyphenated voices — The Polyglot, Laberinto Press, Living Hyphen, and Hungry Zine — to share one thing they wish everyone understood about multilingual writing and publishing.

Visit our blog, Pensieri, to read what they said!

www.thepolyglotmagazine.com/pensieri/2025/publishing-multilingual-hyphenated-authors

Join us TODAY for the 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗹, 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 & 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀 - Saturday, October 18, at 12:00p.m. at the Stanley A. Milner branch of the Edmonton Public Library.

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹: https://secure.citadeltheatre.com/10128/10144

𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹:
✨ Justine Abigail Yu /
✨ Maria Teodora Barbu
✨ Luciana Erregue-Sacchi
✨ Kathryn Lennon
🎙️ Moderated by Edmonton’s 11th Poet Laureate, Medgine Mathurin

📅 Tickets: $5 (student/low income) | $15 (regular)
Use promo code LITFEST2025 to access the student rate.

Background art: Cedric Usman


We're excited to have some of our Issue 15 contributors share their works at our launch event on Saturday, October 18! ...
10/17/2025

We're excited to have some of our Issue 15 contributors share their works at our launch event on Saturday, October 18! Come enjoy powerful readings, music, and visual art. Event starts at 5 pm at The Green Room. 

See you there! 

Readers:
Tamara Aschenbrenner
Muhammad Azhar
Luciana Erregue-Sacchi

Music:
The Calamansi Club

Visual art: 
April Angeles
Maryam Lary
Niabi Kapoor .k 



What are your favourite multilingual literary magazines and presses?Here are some of ours! We absolutely love the work t...
10/16/2025

What are your favourite multilingual literary magazines and presses?

Here are some of ours! We absolutely love the work they do, and how they champion linguistic diversity.


Journal of Literary Multilingualism



Australian Multilingual Writing Project polyglot.magazine (that's us!)

Did you know? This Saturday, in Edmonton, Alberta, four of these sensational mags/presses (The Polyglot, Laberinto Press, Living Hyphen and Hungry Zine) will join forces in a Panel called: 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗹, 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 & 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀.

Join us on Saturday, October 18, at 12:00p.m. at the Stanley A. Milner branch of the Edmonton Public Library.

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹: https://secure.citadeltheatre.com/10128/10144

📅 Tickets: $5 (student/low income) | $15 (regular)
Use promo code LITFEST2025 to access the student rate.


✨ We’re so proud to share that The Polyglot and Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization have won a Silver Award in...
10/12/2025

✨ We’re so proud to share that The Polyglot and Supporting Indigenous Language Revitalization have won a Silver Award in Innovation from the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association! 🥈

Together, we created and led workshops designed to support Indigenous language revitalization through the arts, culminating in âniskôverberation, a special issue that celebrates Indigenous languages across Turtle Island. Download it for FREE on our website today.

Our goal was simple yet urgent: to help counter language loss through creative expression. Artists are often overlooked as key players in keeping languages alive. We sought to celebrate and uplift them.

💫 This project resonated deeply. Our workshops led by Anna Marie Sewell and Lana Whiskeyjack were full, and our launch in December 2024 brought together over 100 people from Indigenous and immigrant communities for a night of poetry, stories, art, and food.

This is The Polyglot's third issue dedicated to Indigenous language revitalization, and we cannot wait to partner on more beautiful projects like this!!!!

✨ Congratulations to our whole team!

✨Issue Contributors:
Juana Adcock, Roberta Alook, Axis, Avis Blackbird, Bailey Bornyk, Molly Chisaakay, Crystal Lee Clark, Mackenzie Ground, AJ Kluck, Hubert Matiúwàa, Francine Merasty, Randy Morin, Daniel Poitras, Corinne Riedel, chuutsqa L. Rorick, Raymond Sewell, Allie Tibbetts, Tukuuludax̂, Chelsea Vowel

✨Guest Editors & Workshop Facilitators: Anna Marie Sewell & Lana Whiskeyjack

✨SILR Team: Pamela McCoy Jones (ED) and Corinne Riedel

✨Managing Editor: Lauren Carter

✨Layout & Design: Brett Boyd

✨Founder & Creative Director: Adriana Oniță .onita

✨Marketing & Communications Director: Catalina Morales Vélez

✨Innovation & Development Facilitator: Maria Teodora Barbu

✨Social Media: Géo Estoesta

and our launch volunteers!

Thank you for this amazing recognition!

Photos by Samora Pinnock

How do we nurture a publishing landscape that truly reflects the multiplicity of languages, cultures, and identities tha...
10/09/2025

How do we nurture a publishing landscape that truly reflects the multiplicity of languages, cultures, and identities that shape Canada?

Join us on October 18 at noon for an inspiring panel at bringing together The Polyglot, Laberinto Press, Hungry Zine, and Living Hyphen — four trailblazing publishers creating space for multilingual, multicultural, and hyphenated authors.

Featuring:
✨ Justine Abigail Yu ( / )
✨ Maria Teodora Barbu ( / the.polyglot.magazine)
✨ Luciana Erregue-Sacchi ()
✨ Kathryn Lennon ( / )
🎙️ Moderated by Edmonton’s 11th Poet Laureate, Medgine Mathurin

📅 Tickets: $5 (student/low income) | $15 (regular)
Use promo code LITFEST2025 to access the student rate.

🌿 COVER REVEAL! We are thrilled to unveil Issue 15: 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒂, a luminous new edition of The Polyglot exploring wellness, r...
10/09/2025

🌿 COVER REVEAL!

We are thrilled to unveil Issue 15: 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒂, a luminous new edition of The Polyglot exploring wellness, ritual, and community healing through poetry, prose, song, and art.

✨ Guest edited by Aaima Azhar and Zainab Azhar, founders of , this issue has been lovingly curated to capture what is well and unwell within us all.

🌀 Meaning "circle" in Urdu and Arabic, 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒂 embodies the cyclical nature of healing through ritual and remembrance.

Digital: $12 CAD, available NOW!
Print: $25

✨ Reserve your print copy for the launch event on Oct 18 at by e-transferring $25 to [email protected].

Contributors:
April Angeles
Tamara Aschenbrenner
Muhammad Azhar
The Calamansi Club
Leilei Chen 莫譯
Luciana Erregue-Sacchi
Ohona Anjum Jui
Niabi Kapoor .k
Maryam Lary
Yannis Lobaina
Khashayar Kess Mohammadi
Qudus Olanrewaju Ojikutu
Siham Salah
Silly (Illyana Cardinal)
Angeline Teoh Simon .teohsimon

Layout & Design: Brett Boyd
Managing Editor: Lauren Carter
Cover Image: Zainab Azhar .azh

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