Juno is a Kolkata-based literary journal promoting marginalised creatives.

Juno Literary shall be accepting submissions for our issue 1 on the theme ‘Fusion Food’ from January 1st to March 1st 2026. We welcome poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid unconventional pieces as long as they are relevant to our theme. To better understand our theme, please check out our Instagram page where we post daily updates as well as our guidelines. Submissions must be mailed at junoliterarymagazine@gmail.com

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere!
• We are looking for fiction and non fiction including personal essays, short stories, and unconventional forms as long as they are under 5000 words. Please limit poetry submissions to three per person.
• Please make the subject of your emails Submissions-(poetry/fiction/nonfiction) whichever you’re submitting. Include your name and a short (100-150 words) third person bio.
• We accept submissions in all formats so go crazy with font, line spacing, and whatever you like.
• If your work is selected, please do not publish it anywhere else until after the publication of Issue 2. However, you are free to share excerpts on your personal blog or page as long as you credit Juno Literary as the publisher.
• While we would love to review each and every piece that comes our way, we’re incredibly short-staffed and run by busy university students. We will be providing feedback on the first 20 pieces if they are not accepted. Accepted pieces will not receive any feedback.
• Acceptance emails will be sent out by April 15th and the issue shall be avaliable for reading online by the 15th of may. Feel free mail us about your submission if you don’t receive any information by the 25th of April.

the theme for issue 1 is FUSION FOOD!

Fusion Food to us is the intersection between identities.
How different is your life when you belong to multiple marginalised communities? What if you are both disabled and queer? What does your life look like as a dalit woman in India? Or as a black lesbian in the usa? This issue is not just about food, while we would love to have essays examining the birth of cuisines like anglo-bengali or soul food, it is about those who exist 'in between' communities. For those whose voices are only heard in halves and never in the true wholeness of their being.

On the other hand, we would appreciate both fiction and non-fiction on food and the role it plays in the lives of women. Do you think it brings women together? Or has the kitchen historically been a place of oppression? Answer our questions by mailing us your works from January 1st onwards at junoliterarymagazine@gmail.com
Submissions sent before January 1st won't be accepted.