Khôra's 500 WORDS

KHÔRA is a collaborative, curated magazine — one that stays open and keeps evolving. We invite you to be part of sustaining it.

To enter our open waters, writers can send us the first 500 words of an unpublished piece, ready for publication — any genre welcome. You're welcome to submit more than once, as long as each submission is new work.

Visit our Substack for current Calls for Submission.

We don't send rejections. Instead, we keep your work active in our pool, returning to it as new issues and collaborations take shape. We're always looking, and we believe the right fit can emerge at any time.

A few practical notes: If your piece is time-sensitive, please send us something else — we can't guarantee a timeline. And we recommend adding khoramagazine@gmail.com to your contacts so our messages don't get lost.

We look forward to reading your work.

“I hope that we write ourselves back to life … I hope that when we step into our writerly lives, we can only come alive by and through each other, by and through our beautiful differences. I hope that ‘hope’ doesn’t come from looking up ever again, but from looking each other in the eyes/I’s. I hope we stand up inside our various languages with ferocious love and courage and that we aim for what matters in the world, whether or not anyone remembers our names. Let it be true that we wrote the world and each other back to life." — Lidia Yuknavitch, source