Call for Submissions – Magma 94: Remix

Submissions window open 1st - 31st July 2025

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Remix

  For this issue of Magma, we ask that you send us your poems that carry an expressed spirit rendered so differently that they are a new thing.

You’re supposed to use everything from the past. If you know where you come from, it’s easier to get where you’re going. – Quincy Jones

Take inspiration from where you will: music, film, art, translation, poetry, and of course previous issues of our back catalogue as your inspiration to sample or riff or interpolate.

We are interested in the apparent, necessary concepts of remixing, but equally, we welcome submissions that push the boundaries of what remix means and how we understand it. Ultimately, they should release you from your own predetermined limits.

How will your spin on things make it new? Surprise us and, if you can, yourself.

for there are no new ideas. there are only new ways of making them felt - of examining what those ideas feel like […] – Audrey Lourde

What but a remix is a timeless way to evolve and live more vibrantly now considering the past?

What but a remix is the same sound with new words holding trying spirits just as deeply, firmly onto the parts of us that call out for the ineffable?

 The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify  the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

We look forward to reading your poems.

Elontra Hall, Willie Lee Kinard III and Lola Oh

Editors Magma 94: remix

NB A Note on Fair Use: Mere exploitation of existing copyrighted material, including uses that are solely “decorative” or “entertaining,” should be avoided. Likewise, the mere application of computer technology does not, in itself, render quotation or re-use of an existing poem fair. If recognizable in the final product, quotations should be brief in relation to their sources, unless there is an articulable rationale for more extensive quotation. The poet should provide attribution in a conventionally appropriate form unless it would be truly impractical or artistically inappropriate to do so.
 

HOW TO SUBMIT 

• The submissions window for ‘Remix' is open 1st – 31st July 2025
• We welcome poems that have not been previously published in print, online, or broadcast.
• We accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission or contact us if it is accepted for publication somewhere else first.
• You may submit up to 4 previously unpublished poems: ONLINE via Submittable in a single Word or PDF document, OR BY POST to Magma 94 Submissions, 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton, SM5 4ES. Postal submissions are accepted from the UK and Ireland only. Postal submissions are not acknowledged until a decision is made.

THE EDITORS

• Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton. He has been published in HeadFake, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Propel, Prairie Schooner, Anthropocene, and Shō. His poems have also been broadcast by the BBC. He is a 2nd year student on the Poetry School MA in conjunction with Newcastle University as well as a holder of its Outstanding Candidate Scholarship for the 2023 - 2025 cohort. He is an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, A Watering Hole Fellow, and a Griot’s Well Alumni. 
• Willie Lee Kinard III (he/they) is a poet, designer, and musician who earned a BFA from the University of South Carolina and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include Orders of Service (Alice James Books, 2023), winner of the 2022 Alice James Award; a self-published chapbook/mixtape, chroma. (2016); and work in Obsidian, Poem-a-Day, Best New Poets 2022, the Boston Review, and The Rumpus, among others. The winner of a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, Kinard is from Newberry, South Carolina, and currently teaches at the University of South Carolina.
• Lola Oh  is a poet and photographer based in London. Through her work, Lola explores the lives of those around her, passionate about the everyday stories we often overlook. Her poem ‘Bad Daughters’ was shortlisted for The White Review’s Poet Prize in 2023.