Tint Journal
@tintjournal.bsky.social
Tint is a biannual online literary journal for writers who write in English as their non-native language 📚🖋️
www.tintjournal.com
www.tintjournal.com
A warm thank you to everyone who submitted their written work and art to our open call for Tint Spring '26! We have received a total of 417 written submissions, which our editorial team is currently reviewing for publication in the upcoming issue scheduled to be released on March 10, 2026.
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A warm thank you to everyone who submitted their written work and art to our open call for Tint Spring '26! We have received a total of 417 written submissions, which our editorial team is currently reviewing for publication in the upcoming issue scheduled to be released on March 10, 2026.
Friends in Lithuania! You can now find "Tinted Trails" in the American Space at the National Library of Lithuania. We hope you enjoy flipping through the pages of Tint Journal's first anthology! If you live elsewhere and would like to grab a copy, visit our Ko-fi page at ko-fi.com/tintjournal.
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Friends in Lithuania! You can now find "Tinted Trails" in the American Space at the National Library of Lithuania. We hope you enjoy flipping through the pages of Tint Journal's first anthology! If you live elsewhere and would like to grab a copy, visit our Ko-fi page at ko-fi.com/tintjournal.
TINT Q&A // A.D. Capili wrote poetry actively in the 2010s, but it was only in the summer of 2024 that he began taking online creative writing classes and submitting his work to journals. Learn more about the author of "Exiles" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork") at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT Q&A // A.D. Capili wrote poetry actively in the 2010s, but it was only in the summer of 2024 that he began taking online creative writing classes and submitting his work to journals. Learn more about the author of "Exiles" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork") at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
TINT NONFICTION // Helin Yüksel explores gender in academia while experimenting with feminist literature in her creative work. Her writing delves into the layered nature of womanhood, belonging, and estrangement. Read her essay at tintjournal.com/essay/your-a...
Art: "Blue Zone" by Joykrit Mitra
Art: "Blue Zone" by Joykrit Mitra
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT NONFICTION // Helin Yüksel explores gender in academia while experimenting with feminist literature in her creative work. Her writing delves into the layered nature of womanhood, belonging, and estrangement. Read her essay at tintjournal.com/essay/your-a...
Art: "Blue Zone" by Joykrit Mitra
Art: "Blue Zone" by Joykrit Mitra
Time is running out! Send us your ESL poetry, fiction, nonfiction or artwork (we accept art from international artists) until November 30, 2025 to be considered for publication in our 15th issue. Ensure that your submission follows our guidelines at tintjournal.com/submit/submission-guidelines.
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Time is running out! Send us your ESL poetry, fiction, nonfiction or artwork (we accept art from international artists) until November 30, 2025 to be considered for publication in our 15th issue. Ensure that your submission follows our guidelines at tintjournal.com/submit/submission-guidelines.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Vote for Tint Journal 💜 Voting takes less than a minute at chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag-awards! Chill Subs is asking their community which literary magazines they love most. Winning lit mags receive $300 each. We appreciate your vote for Tint <3
TINT Q&A // Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki always wrote in her notebooks — not diaries, but fragments of what she saw, felt, experienced, and where she was. Learn more about the author of "Still & Μωβ" at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT Q&A // Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki always wrote in her notebooks — not diaries, but fragments of what she saw, felt, experienced, and where she was. Learn more about the author of "Still & Μωβ" at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
TINT FICTION // Johan @johansmits.bsky.social writes short fiction, literary travel stories — for which he was shortlisted AITO Travel Writer of the Year in Britain — and is the author of Phnom Penh Express (Marshall Cavendish). Read his story at tintjournal.com/short-story/....
Art: Yewon Kim
Art: Yewon Kim
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT FICTION // Johan @johansmits.bsky.social writes short fiction, literary travel stories — for which he was shortlisted AITO Travel Writer of the Year in Britain — and is the author of Phnom Penh Express (Marshall Cavendish). Read his story at tintjournal.com/short-story/....
Art: Yewon Kim
Art: Yewon Kim
We are closing submissions for our Spring '26 issue in 9 days‼️🔔This is your final chance to submit! Share your short story, essay, flash and poetry, as well as your artwork with us until November 30, 2025 (midnight CET) to be considered for publication!
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We are closing submissions for our Spring '26 issue in 9 days‼️🔔This is your final chance to submit! Share your short story, essay, flash and poetry, as well as your artwork with us until November 30, 2025 (midnight CET) to be considered for publication!
"I have a lot of hope for the growth of people’s awareness and understanding that literature almost always already is exophonic, and has been so from the beginning." - Srikanth Reddy
Read Tint Editor-in-Chief Lisa Schantl's interview with Srikanth Reddy at tintjournal.com/interview/a-....
Read Tint Editor-in-Chief Lisa Schantl's interview with Srikanth Reddy at tintjournal.com/interview/a-....
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"I have a lot of hope for the growth of people’s awareness and understanding that literature almost always already is exophonic, and has been so from the beginning." - Srikanth Reddy
Read Tint Editor-in-Chief Lisa Schantl's interview with Srikanth Reddy at tintjournal.com/interview/a-....
Read Tint Editor-in-Chief Lisa Schantl's interview with Srikanth Reddy at tintjournal.com/interview/a-....
TINT Q&A // Chelsea Allen first started writing creatively as a way to escape her reality. Creating other sorts of pains for the characters instead was a relief. Learn more about the author of "Dovetail" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork") at tintjournal.com/about/writers/chelsea-allen.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT Q&A // Chelsea Allen first started writing creatively as a way to escape her reality. Creating other sorts of pains for the characters instead was a relief. Learn more about the author of "Dovetail" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork") at tintjournal.com/about/writers/chelsea-allen.
TINT POETRY // Elina Kumra is a Scholastic Gold Medalist who has received numerous literary awards. Her mission is to give voice to human suffering and combat illiteracy by promoting equity and accessibility in education. Read her poem at tintjournal.com/poetry/rooms....
Art: Kim Suttell
Art: Kim Suttell
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT POETRY // Elina Kumra is a Scholastic Gold Medalist who has received numerous literary awards. Her mission is to give voice to human suffering and combat illiteracy by promoting equity and accessibility in education. Read her poem at tintjournal.com/poetry/rooms....
Art: Kim Suttell
Art: Kim Suttell
Thinking of sending us your draft? Here are three reasons to submit to Tint Journal! Share your amazing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork with us before November 30 ⭐ It's now or never 🎊 To review the full submission guidelines, please visit tintjournal.com/submit.
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thinking of sending us your draft? Here are three reasons to submit to Tint Journal! Share your amazing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork with us before November 30 ⭐ It's now or never 🎊 To review the full submission guidelines, please visit tintjournal.com/submit.
NEW LINE-UP AND SCHEDULE: Join us for an exclusive online author talk on 👉 Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 6 p.m. (CET) with English-as-a-second-language writers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Serafina Ferizaj on the topic of “Writing Off-Place.” Visit tintjournal.com/about/news/tint-author-talk-2025 for more!
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
NEW LINE-UP AND SCHEDULE: Join us for an exclusive online author talk on 👉 Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 6 p.m. (CET) with English-as-a-second-language writers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Serafina Ferizaj on the topic of “Writing Off-Place.” Visit tintjournal.com/about/news/tint-author-talk-2025 for more!
TINT Q&A // Sarp Sozdinler's favorite book is any book in the children’s book series, "The Knickerbocker Gang" by the Austrian writer Thomas Brezina. Learn more about the author of "False Positives" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork") at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT Q&A // Sarp Sozdinler's favorite book is any book in the children’s book series, "The Knickerbocker Gang" by the Austrian writer Thomas Brezina. Learn more about the author of "False Positives" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork") at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
TINT NONFICTION // Anneliz Marie Erese writes fiction, personal essays and poetry. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2027 through Black Inc. Born. Raised in the Philippines, she is currently living in Melbourne, Australia. Read her essay at tintjournal.com/essay/the-en....
Art: Milena Makani
Art: Milena Makani
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT NONFICTION // Anneliz Marie Erese writes fiction, personal essays and poetry. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2027 through Black Inc. Born. Raised in the Philippines, she is currently living in Melbourne, Australia. Read her essay at tintjournal.com/essay/the-en....
Art: Milena Makani
Art: Milena Makani
TINT IN CONVERSATION // "We don’t need to dredge rivers to make them deeper, build tunnels to divert them, clear forests and submerge villages to construct dams." - Vaishali Shroff
Read Preeti Kathuria’s interview with Vaishali Shroff on Tint's "In Conversation" at tintjournal.com/interview/st....
Read Preeti Kathuria’s interview with Vaishali Shroff on Tint's "In Conversation" at tintjournal.com/interview/st....
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT IN CONVERSATION // "We don’t need to dredge rivers to make them deeper, build tunnels to divert them, clear forests and submerge villages to construct dams." - Vaishali Shroff
Read Preeti Kathuria’s interview with Vaishali Shroff on Tint's "In Conversation" at tintjournal.com/interview/st....
Read Preeti Kathuria’s interview with Vaishali Shroff on Tint's "In Conversation" at tintjournal.com/interview/st....
TINT Q&A // Although she mostly writes in English now, a lot of Alina Zollfrank's work is grounded in ancestral stories and the immigrant experience. Learn more about Alina Zollfrank, author of "New Words, New Worlds" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork"), at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT Q&A // Although she mostly writes in English now, a lot of Alina Zollfrank's work is grounded in ancestral stories and the immigrant experience. Learn more about Alina Zollfrank, author of "New Words, New Worlds" (Tint Fall '25 "Patchwork"), at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
TINT POETRY // Shaira Sultana is a writer from Scarborough who was born and raised in Dhaka. Her writing mostly explores topics of culture, religion, and belonging as a Muslim immigrant woman. Read her poem at tintjournal.com/poetry/im-fr....
Art: "The Adorned Woman" by Maheshwar N. Sinha
Art: "The Adorned Woman" by Maheshwar N. Sinha
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
TINT POETRY // Shaira Sultana is a writer from Scarborough who was born and raised in Dhaka. Her writing mostly explores topics of culture, religion, and belonging as a Muslim immigrant woman. Read her poem at tintjournal.com/poetry/im-fr....
Art: "The Adorned Woman" by Maheshwar N. Sinha
Art: "The Adorned Woman" by Maheshwar N. Sinha
Join us for an exclusive online author talk on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 5 p.m. (CET) with ESL writers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Nawel Abdallah. Visit tintjournal.com/about/news/tint-author-talk-2025 to read more about the authors and event, and sign up to our reminder service to not miss out!
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Join us for an exclusive online author talk on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 5 p.m. (CET) with ESL writers Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Nawel Abdallah. Visit tintjournal.com/about/news/tint-author-talk-2025 to read more about the authors and event, and sign up to our reminder service to not miss out!
We know how busy this time of the year can be for most writers, especially with numerous literary journals and magazines opening for submissions (including Tint 😉). For this reason, we've gathered a fine selection of free and useful resources to make the writing process easier and more efficient.
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We know how busy this time of the year can be for most writers, especially with numerous literary journals and magazines opening for submissions (including Tint 😉). For this reason, we've gathered a fine selection of free and useful resources to make the writing process easier and more efficient.
Tint Journal proudly features creative writing by authors from 81 nationalities and who speak 86 different first languages across 14 issues to date! Each addition to our map is special and we are happy to celebrate such diversity and the innovative, tinted lenses of ESL writers 💜
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Tint Journal proudly features creative writing by authors from 81 nationalities and who speak 86 different first languages across 14 issues to date! Each addition to our map is special and we are happy to celebrate such diversity and the innovative, tinted lenses of ESL writers 💜
TINT Q&A // Galina Itskovich, has done a lot of traveling, so there are many amazing places on her list. The most adventurous one would probably be her 2011 trip through Jammu and Kashmir. Read more about Galina Itskovich at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
October 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT Q&A // Galina Itskovich, has done a lot of traveling, so there are many amazing places on her list. The most adventurous one would probably be her 2011 trip through Jammu and Kashmir. Read more about Galina Itskovich at tintjournal.com/about/writer....
TINT FICTION // Anna Pedko is a Ukrainian immigrant living in Toronto. She holds a degree in English literature and works at a fintech startup. She is currently working on a contemporary romance novel. Read her story at tintjournal.com/short-story/....
Art: Haley Cole
Art: Haley Cole
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
TINT FICTION // Anna Pedko is a Ukrainian immigrant living in Toronto. She holds a degree in English literature and works at a fintech startup. She is currently working on a contemporary romance novel. Read her story at tintjournal.com/short-story/....
Art: Haley Cole
Art: Haley Cole
TINT IN CONVERSATION // If you’re picking up Amitav Ghosh for the first time, here’s a tip: If you find yourself suddenly wondering how saltpeter affected 19th-century Bengal agriculture, don’t panic. You’re just where he wants you. Read his author profile at tintjournal.com/profile/amit....
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
TINT IN CONVERSATION // If you’re picking up Amitav Ghosh for the first time, here’s a tip: If you find yourself suddenly wondering how saltpeter affected 19th-century Bengal agriculture, don’t panic. You’re just where he wants you. Read his author profile at tintjournal.com/profile/amit....