CFP: Nighthawk Star: World Philosophy Literary Magazine

Nighthawk Star: World Philosophies Literary Magazine

Nighthawk Star is a bi-annual literary magazine that publishes on World Philosophies and Literatures. We seek to give voice to writing and art that engage with philosophical issues from perspectives otherwise marginalised by Anglo-European and Western-style academia. For us, ‘World Philosophies’ represent the diverse intellectual traditions through which human beings across cultures seek answers to the ultimate questions of life. ‘World Philosophies’ are also philosophies that have been rendered homeless by well-established academic institutions and philosophies that keenly attend to the lived experience of the individual embedded in their historical, social, cultural, and political contexts.

Call for Works: Elsewhere

Submissions for our inaugural are now open under the theme 'elsewhere'.

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?

We are accepting all genres of writing, including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and philosophical essays; we are also accepting works of art, including scans or photographs of physical mediums, digitally created art, as well as photography. We welcome broad interpretations of this theme in prose under 2,000 words (fiction, creative nonfiction, philosophical essay), poetry under 40 lines, and visual art including photography. You may submit up to 2pcs of written work and 3pcs of art each round. As we are not an academic journal but a literary magazine, we love to see works that are daringly creative both in subject and style. 

Deadline for submissions is 1st January, 2026.

You can find more information about making a submission with us on our website linked below. To make a submission, please use the submissions form on the website: 

https://nighthawkstar.com/submit/