KHÔRA is a dynamic online arts space showcasing polyphonic, multi-genre writers and artists. Each issue features six carefully curated pieces — artwork and writing selected for the way they speak across forms.

KHÔRA is a dynamic online arts space showcasing the work of polyphonic, multi-genre writers and artists. Each issue features six carefully curated pieces — artwork and writing selected for the way they speak across forms. Every issue is a conversation.

We don't believe in rejections. We believe in bringing multiple voices into the same room: writers and artists whose frameworks and traditions inform each other. Is it a short story or an essay? A play or a poem? Several things at once? We're open to all of them.

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

About the name

Khôra was originally produced in collaboration with groundbreaking author Lidia Yuknavitch's Corporeal Writing and has since flourished as an independent magazine. Plato described khôra as a "formless interval, alike to a non-being." We remain committed to writers and artists who explore the creative by and through an ever-evolving and expansive lens.

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Leigh Hopkins

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KHÔRA Magazine

We’re putting together Khôra’s annual Pride Issue 🏳️‍🌈 and we want your brilliance.<div><br></div><div><b>What we’re looking for</b></div><div><br></div><div>We’re drawn to queer joy in all its forms — hidden histories, chosen family, the shimmer of becoming. Personal and public revolutions. The lives we chose and the ones we fought for. We’re especially interested in what pulses beneath the surface of celebration and the complexity that lives alongside it. We love including personal photographs or artwork to accompany written work. Bring us into your world!</div><div><br></div><div>We don’t send rejections. All submitted work stays active in Khôra’s open waters as we curate each issue — we may reach out at any time.</div>

Open to writers an artists of all genres. Longform essays should be below 2K words.

Call for Submissions: Khôra's Pride Issue

<i>KHÔRA's</i> November/December issue invites work on the theme HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Bring us your personal essays and short stories about holiday chaos, family lore, chosen family, traditions, unlikely gatherings, complicated feelings, and moments of unexpected connection. We’re especially interested in work that takes the theme somewhere we didn’t expect.<div><br></div><div>Funny is welcome. Strange is welcome. A breakdown in form seems right, don’t you think?<br><div><br></div><div><b>How it works:</b></div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Submissions for HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS are open now and close November 1, 2026.</li><li>We welcome emerging and established voices. Open to essays and short stories (maximum 2K words). Whenever possible, we include the author's personal photographs or artwork.</li><li>Submit only one piece for this call.</li><li>Previously unpublished work only, please. Simultaneous submissions are fine—just keep us in the loop if your piece has been accepted by another publication when we reach out.</li><li><i>KHÔRA</i> is committed to equity and representation. We encourage submissions from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ writers and artists, and we believe our pages are richer for the full range of voices they hold.</li><li>We have a strict no-AI policy for all submissions.</li></ul></div></div>

KHÔRA is committed to equity and representation. We encourage submissions from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ writers and artists, and we believe our pages are richer for the full range of voices they hold.

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