Image: © Steve Davis
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 16th edition: Encounters.
In this edition, you will find over 110 works by more than 100 authors, 78 of whom are new to Panorama. 30 new reviewers have bolstered our editorial ranks.
Mehreen Ahmed, in this issue as Guest Fiction Editor, has brought in many more fiction writers. Shehla Anjum has joined the Streetview editorial team. Tia Welch Maerz has joined the Decolonising Travel section, supporting Faith Adiele, who continues to bring in new voices through her writing programmes.
Many thanks to all contributors, and the editors who made publication possible—Paula Lee, Devi S. Laskar, David Ishaya Osu, Amanda Barnsley White, Joelle Renstrom, Kerry Neville, Samuel Autman, Kevan Manwaring, Anis Ibrahim, Shehla Anjum, Tolu Daniel, Sarge Lacuesta, Kristin Winet, Faith Adiele, Tia Welch Maerz, Tanya Ward Goodman, and Paula Read.
Life would be terribly dull without encounters. And, authors feel the same. One of the largest submissions total to date has produced a multiplicity of stories, worlds, happiness, sadness. Moments of joy, pain, and nostalgia. What would have happened if we had encountered a different person, at a different time, in a different state? Let’s see … I give you ENCOUNTERS.
— Matthew Webb, Director, Panorama
BOOKS
Gone: Encounters with Awe, Wonder and Reverence while Exploring the American West (Chapter 2)
Steven Law
USA
While our guides prepare breakfast in their rudimentary camp kitchen — their backs hunched against the cold wind — the rest of us gather in a line parallel to the shore, huddled around our warm mugs of coffee and cocoa and contemplate the wind-raw, Stygianesque sea before us.
NONFICTION
MEMOIR
EATEN
DECOLONISING TRAVEL
FICTION
TRAVEL FLASH
FLASH FICTION
HYBRID WORKS
POETRY
NEW NATURE WRITING
STREETVIEW
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
An interview with Aotearoa New Zealand’s Tina Makereti
Alton Melvar M. Dapanas
Philippines
FOLIO
AUTHOR’S REFLECTIONS
AUTHORS
Read more about who is writing for Panorama. See bios of all contributors to the Encounters issue.