The Decolonial Passage, a literary magazine centring African, African-American, and Black diaspora writing, is open for submissions throughout April 2026 for its third issue, themed Ecology. All genres are welcome this month: poetry, short fiction, flash, and creative nonfiction.

The issue takes its cue from Martinican environmental engineer Malcolm Ferdinand’s framework of decolonial ecology, which argues that confronting ecosystem destruction is inseparable from the demand for equality and emancipation and that colonial domination cannot be undone without also transforming the colonial relationship to land, landscape, and non-human life. The editors want work in which human beings are in relationship with their natural environment, plants, and animals, seen through that decolonial lens.

Word limits are: personal essays and creative nonfiction, 2,500 words; short stories, 3,500 words; flash fiction and nonfiction, 800 words. All submissions must be in MS Word format, Times New Roman size 12, double-spaced, and accompanied by a cover letter and short bio. No previously published work, no AI-generated content, one genre per submission period. The magazine submits published work to the Caine Prize, the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, and others, a past contributor’s piece was selected for Best Small Fictions 2025.

The deadline is 30 April 2026. Submit here.