A Scotland-based literary magazine focusing on nature and environmental writing in the context of climate and ecological challenges.

Paperboats Zine is a literary magazine established in 2023, dedicated to exploring and celebrating the diverse lives of Planet Earth amidst environmental and ecological crises. 

Based in Scotland with a global outlook, the magazine publishes essays, short fiction, and poetry that reflect a commitment to nature and the environment.

 It aims to raise a diversity of voices on the climate crisis, particularly welcoming submissions from under-represented groups and those on the frontlines of the climate emergency. 

The magazine has released five issues to date, each focusing on themes such as 'Our Power – Our Planet' and 'The Roar O The Sea'.

Paperboats Zine

Fiction Submissions

NATURE AS LIBRARY: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN<div>For Issue Eight of the Paperboats Zine, we’re joining The Nature Library’s Christina Riley to ask you to consider what has been written and continues to be written in nature’s pages. This is a call to tap into seeds, tree rings, soil samples, ice cores. You might consider records, objects, collections, epochs…from the microscopic to the universal. What stories does the natural world tell us and what do we want written into its future?</div><div><br></div><div>We invite submissions of up to 700 words of prose (fiction or nonfiction) or up to 30 lines of poetry, which responds to our theme: Nature as Library. </div><div><br></div>

Nonfiction Submissions

NATURE AS LIBRARY: SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN<div>For Issue Eight of the Paperboats Zine, we’re joining The Nature Library’s Christina Riley to ask you to consider what has been written and continues to be written in nature’s pages. This is a call to tap into seeds, tree rings, soil samples, ice cores. You might consider records, objects, collections, epochs…from the microscopic to the universal. What stories does the natural world tell us and what do we want written into its future?</div><div><br></div><div>We invite submissions of up to 700 words of prose (fiction or nonfiction) or up to 30 lines of poetry, which responds to our theme: Nature as Library. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

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