The Polyglot

PHIDEAS partnered with The Polyglot and Edmonton Poetry Festival for HILOM - 1 year after the incident at Vancouver Lapu-Lapu festival, let us heal together - Saturday, April 25 at the Stanley Milner Muttart Theater (downtown). Free and open to public

Community is key to cultural, communal healing

✨ Call for Submissions: Issue 17: Grief, Gratitude, Glory ✨

https://www.thepolyglotmagazine.com/submit

In partnership with the Philippine Edmonton Events and Arts Society (PHIDEAS), The Polyglot is thrilled to open submissions for a special joint issue exploring collective intercultural understandings of grief, gratitude, and glory.

📅 Deadline: January 16, 2026
💰 Honorarium: $100 CAD
🎨 Guest Editors: Candice Joy Oliva & April Angeles
🌏 Open to: Alberta-based & international multicultural writers and artists

We welcome:

📝 Poetry (up to 3 pieces)
📚 Prose (up to 2000 words)
🌐 Translations (with source text & rights letter)
🎨 Visual art (up to 5 pieces)
🎧 Multimedia & hybrid works

Submissions can be in any language or mix of languages, and we especially encourage work in, or featuring, underrepresented and endangered languages.

You’ll also submit:
🖋️ A short artist statement (200 words)
👤 A brief bio (200 words)

💡 Accessibility: Writers and artists living with disabilities and/or for whom English is difficult are welcome to contact us for submission support.
✉️ [email protected]

📍 Alberta-based contributors will be invited to an in-person launch in Spring 2026.
🎉 Funding for this issue comes from the Alberta Ethnocultural Grant as part of PHIDEAS’s LIFT: Let us Imagine a Future Together.

Art Credit: Puno ng Pag-Ibig (Full of Love/Tree of Love) — Ting Pimentel-Elger & attendees of “HILOM: Healing Together,” August 2025.

Edmonton Filipino Fiesta Read Alberta Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Candice Joy Oliva