Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 18th edition: Belonging.

This issue is alive with stories from Liberia, Australia, Zimbabwe, and more. We hear from many authors writing close to home in Streetview, how journeys have changed us in Memoir, and how we see ourselves amongst nature in New Nature Writing sections.

From rubber plantations in Marvin Garbeh Davis Sr’s ‘The Main Gate’ to Alton Melvar M. Dapanas’s latest author interview with noted food writer Daryl Lim Wei Jie, to Stephanie Thomas’s ‘The Line You Can Step Over’ in which she writes about the Haskell Free Library that straddles the US and Canada, Belonging is a specific and deeply personal experience.

We hear from Mohamed Algarmi reconnecting with their history in Yemen through an innovative hybrid writing format. Samuel Autman’s ‘Terms and Conditions’ likewise takes a creative approach to belonging and the formal language that frames our belonging, where we are allowed to belong, and under which conditions.

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, Faith Adiele, Tia Welch Maerz, Kristin Winet, Tanya Ward Goodman, Lisa VanderVeen and Paula Read.

Since we started Panorama in 2016, our intention has always been to create a space from a multitude of voices and belongings, and I hope you all feel that you belong here … I give you BELONGING.

— Matthew Webb, Director, Panorama