Slant’d is an annual literary print magazine that showcases authentic stories told by diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) writers and artists across generations, geographies, and experiences.
Tied together by a theme that reflects what’s happening today in Asian America, each issue features a beautifully curated selection of thought-provoking personal essays, photo essays, poems, and visual art that celebrates what it means to be human.
Genres: creative nonfiction, poetry, short story, art/illustration, photo essays
The theme for Issue 07 is Lore.
“Lore” speaks to the bodies of knowledge, traditions, and stories passed down across generations—a collective wisdom that shapes and preserves cultural identity, rooted in history brought from the motherland.
Carried across borders and seas, reshaped by new environments, and left in our hands to determine their futures, lores have the ability to ground us amidst the chaos and to remind us of our beginnings. The passing down of stories, rituals, and memory rife with joy, revelation, power, or fear shape the world(s) around us with each retelling. We welcome a range of stories that consider origin points across time; hauntings of superstitions or beliefs; recountings of traditional medicine or the healing arts; the inheritance of lessons and learnings or of wishes and warnings—all these echoes of generations past that culminate in you.
Guidelines
- We intentionally feature work by AAPIs: this includes mixed-race Asians, adoptees, and folks who were not born in the U.S., but have been here long enough to consider themselves American.
- We prioritize potential over polish: personal essay submissions are limited to an overview of your story idea, a story outline, and work samples.
- We only accept original story ideas in English and submissions must be previously unpublished.
- Simultaneous submissions are okay as long as you notify us immediately if the story is accepted by another publisher.
- We ask for FNASR (First North American Serial Rights) should your work be accepted for publication. You will retain all rights to your work after publication.
If you resonate with our mission and editorial vision, we encourage you to submit your work for consideration. We especially want to co-create with AAPI writers and artists who identify as disabled, neurodivergent, trans and LGBTQIA+, are over the age of 30, without an MFA, are unagented, or without professional / career training in the arts.
