| Panorama has given my poem wider readership |
| My dream is to become a successful author one day. After realizing how much more experience I would need before I approached a publisher about a debut novel, I decided to focus on short stories through literary journals. Panorama is one such journal which has graciously accepted my work. Thanks to them, I am building confidence, skill, and credibility in the literary world, and I am eternally grateful. Their international scope is extremely valuable, and I'm excited to work with them in the future. |
| Panorama is one of those magazines to publish my rare short story. I am humbled by the acceptance. |
| Panorama has pushed me to contemplate on my writing to a level I have never thought to go. Writing has not been in my professional art form, but attempting to write something worthy of the topic at hand, from Panorama, gave me the scrutiny to read and reread what I have written. Editing is scary. Publishing is scarier. Panorama gave me the momentum to solidify the jumble of words that needed to become “writing”. Many thanks to the editors. Many thanks to the future readers. |
| Panorama truly is a journal after my own heart. I am in the early stages of transitioning from writing as a literary critic/ecocritic who published in academic journals and presses to a writer of creative nonfiction who publishes in literary journals and magazines. As someone who teaches and studies placed-based and environmental literature, Panorama has been a wonderful resource, both for introducing me to works that speak to my personal and professional interests and in being an open source publication that I can integrate into my courses. Now, Panorama takes on a new role in my journey, as it gives me the opportunity to share my creative nonfiction and helps reaffirm that I am on the right path in this new-to-me endeavor. |
| Panorama brings subjects to me that are often unfamiliar but also even when familiar are presented in different guises. I look to Panorama for new insights and introductions to people and themes I either know very little about or am hungry to know more about. I am never disappointed. |
| I especially appreciate the international perspective of Panorama Journal. Some might argue that all travel journals are international, but I think that Panorama's internationalism is broadened by the magazine's ability to not center just one cultural perspective or one geographical region over another. I think the magazine demonstrates how place informs character and how the fragility of our current natural environment affects all of us. |
| The editorial suggestions received on the two stories that I've had published in Panorama have been very helpful. |
| Panorama has aided me in my writing life to focus on travel as a significant theme in my writing, since it is such a passion. |
| It has been a pleasure to publish my first piece about Nature Writing on the esteemed Panorama Journal. Either the theme of ecology chosen for this issue or the variety of genres to write on has ignited my passion to unleash my pen and write about a real experience lived in Nature, with Nature and for Nature. The variety of genre options provided by Panorama Journal motivates me to write about what I feel more comfortable with. Believing that more freedom of choice means more creativity and originality pushes me also to write about my Nature/Travel experience, vehemently. |
| i've been published several times since. no one since has taken one iota of time to offer criticism or feedback. this is something that sets Panorama far above the rest. i will know i've written something worth reading again when another editor offers their time and works with me to make my piece shine ✨ |
| Panorama has been pivotal to the first steps of my writing career. I was looking to submit to literary magazines and journals to get used to other people reading and editing my writing before beginning my Creative Writing course. I was quite nervous, but Vimi Bajaj's edits were fair and delivered with great care. Additionally, I didn't feel discouraged from asking any questions about the process or the edits. My work has been greatly improved through this process, and my experience with Panorama has laid a wonderful foundation from which my writing can grow. |
| I especially appreciate Faith Adiele as one of the editors and her selecting pieces from a decolonizing travel perspective |
| Writing for Panorama allowed me to combine my interests in creative nonfiction, travel writing, and public history in one piece—I’m grateful for that opportunity. |
| Discovering Panorama at random, and very late in my life as a global traveller, the work within it helped me to begin to capture some of my experience in words and I am honored that my first attempt has found a home here. |
| Panorama was recommended to me by an editor a few months ago after he rejected a pitch of mine. He directed me to Panorama because I was ocassionally pitching stories that explored a topic without having a "newsy" tie-in. After reading the journal in earnest, I knew I wanted to contribute to Panorama. I love the broad definition of travel used by Panorama, and the journal's interest in processing the periphery of travel experiences through writing. I am honored to have had one of my essays accepted into the latest issue.
I write a weekly essay on Substack, which you can subscribe to here: https://ryleygraham.substack.com/ |
| Thank you for publishing my poem. I do have a book length's worth of poems published in journals, still it's extremely difficult to get work published, it's so lovely to receive an acceptance letter. To feel seen. |
| I'm honored to have my writing published in Panorama because of its wide-ranging perspective on travel, journeys, and the ways we can write about the lives we live as well as those we encounter. I felt very gratified to have my piece nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023. It's a pleasure to have my work appear in a publication that has such an international audience. Thank you! |
| My poem featured in Panorama was significant for me as it was a pivot back to poetry. |
| Panorama is a uniquely interdisciplinary and intertheoretical journal that provides excellent dissemination opportunities for practitioners and academics alike. The staff are highly efficient, helpful and amiable. |
| Panorama has a unique role in the literary landscape due to its focus on place-based work, the writing that many would call 'travel writing'. What Panorama does is invite both readers and writers to see all places as an opportunity for a journey, even if it's a writer's own home town. The journal elevates a variety of voices and perspectives, leading to unexpected and revelatory examinations of places and environments. It invites writers to travel within, whether they are on the move, visiting a place in memory, or imagining a place in the future - and then it invites readers along for the trip. |
| Panorama published one of my travel pieces, and I was thrilled to have it be housed in this wonderful journal. |
| Before the Covid pandemic, I was Panorama's Literary Ambassador for Panjim (a lofty title, but it meant a lot!). The plan was to write more but the lockdown derailed everything. I loved writing this letter for Issue 5 and I hope to contribute again soon.
https://panoramajournal.org/issues/issue-5-lost/lost-letter-from-panjim/ |
| The idea of travel, in my mind, suggests a level of comfort and potential that has been intermittent in my life. As a child, I took for granted that people would take me to interesting places within and beyond my native Canada, and that I could and would go anywhere in the world in my life. The horizon seemed unlimited. My first serious challenge as a traveller came in my senior year in high school, when I was selected to go on a year’s exchange to Australia--and promptly came home after three weeks of agonizing homesickness. In college, I dropped out of the French major program before the third-year semester in France. Zut alors! I married young, and my husband and I travelled across Canada by train to settle in British Columbia, where we have resided for over three decades. I have travelled “back east” to Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island several times over the years, and (rarely) to the United States for work and leisure. With our two teenage daughters, my husband and I visited Cuba a couple of years ago: a unique trip for which (believe me) we are still paying the bills. Going through times of scarcity, especially as one gets older, can narrow one’s focus as day to day worries and/or a sense of living from paycheque to paycheque with nothing left over for luxuries. So when friends of ours invited us to Palm Springs this past winter, we eagerly accepted; little did I know that this trip would prompt an existential crisis for me. In the midst of it, seizing a quiet moment with my laptop, I came across the call for “survival” stories from this wonderful magazine. I found the theme and the magazine itself both uplifting and inspiring: exactly the right remedy to transcend the tribulations and anxieties of daily life, and to enter the kaleidoscope--indeed, the panorama--of adventure. Writing the story I submitted here was a lifesaver for me--and I hope that readers will enjoy it, too! I am thrilled to be part of such a worthwhile enterprise. |
| Panorama is the first publication that has selected my creative writing (in this case, flash fiction) to feature in an issue. This has given me an incredible confidence boost and the encouragement to dedicate myself to my creative writing. I feel very privileged that my work is being featured in Panorama. |
| I discovered Panorama through ChillSubs. I'm amazed at the breadth and quality of the work on the site. I'm still exploring. |
| I love that Panorama provides a space for travel journalism, creative nonfiction, and fiction to sit together in a melting pot of writing from passionate, clever creatives. The travel stories which have impacted me the most throughout my life have always blurred the line between fact and fiction, and while educational travel journalism is an absolutely invaluable part of this industry, I think it's important to embrace the way travel writing can often lends itself to self-mythologising, and to leave space for broader, less easily definable stories to be told. |
| Panorama is an inspiring publication that values creative storytelling over algorithm-driven content. I greatly treasure this space and it's growing influence in the literary landscape. |
