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Call for Submissions

The Polyglot Issue 15 — Mental Health, Wellness & the Arts

For our upcoming issue, The Polyglot seeks to explore the vital role of creativity in navigating the complexities of mental health and wellbeing. We invite you to share how art, in its myriad forms—poetry, prose, sound, image, dance, and hybrid expressions—can hold us through loss, grief, change, and the process of becoming.

Let’s discover how individuals across cultures and languages have found solace, strength, and understanding through creative expression. We encourage submissions to reflect on questions such as:

• How has art held you through loss, grief, change, or becoming?

• Did a new language meet you in a time of illness or transformation?

• Has your mother tongue ever healed a part of you?

• What role does multilingualism play in your mental and emotional well-being?

• How has art helped you stay rooted in uncertain times?

• When the ground beneath you felt unsteady, how did art become a place to land?

Creativity is medicine. Language is power.

Deadline: May 30, 2035.

Honorarium: $100 CAD + 1 print copy of the issue

Open to: Artists, writers, and creators of all kinds—especially those underrepresented in mainstream publishing.

We welcome poetry, prose, sound, image, dance, and hybrid forms that explore mental health and wellbeing—across cultures, identities, and languages.

Guest Editors: TBC

Submission Guidelines

Number of Submissions: You may submit up to 3 pieces total. This can include a combination of literary, visual, and hybrid works.

Literary Submissions: Submissions can be in any language(s) that explore the deeply personal relationship between your inner world and the creative arts. All linguistic levels are encouraged to submit—whether you’re fluent, reconnecting with a heritage language, or exploring a language for the first time.

Art Submissions: We welcome 1-3 artworks across various media, including photography, drawing, painting, digital art, sculpture, video, music, dance, weaving, and traditional art forms. For visual art, please submit high-resolution JPEG or PNG files. For video or music submissions, please submit MP3 or MP4 files.

Cover Submissions: If you wish to submit cover art, please indicate that in your submission. No artist statement is required for cover art submissions.

Artist Statement: To accompany your submissions, we request a short artist statement (200-300 words) reflecting on your creative process, language use, or themes of wellbeing that relate to your work. Examples of artist statements can be found in past issues of The Polyglot (www.thepolyglotmagazine.com).

Biography: Please provide a brief biography (100-200 words), and include any social media profiles you would like to share.

Guest Editors

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