Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For immigrants who have kids, there's a strange grief in realizing they will never fully understand the country you grew up in. How have you dealt with this? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You start dreaming in a second language before you even notice you've made the switch. Has that happened to you yet? 001
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026unbordered.substack.com/p/a-radical-...unbordered.substack.comA Radical VulnerabilityHow leaving the U.S. for New Zealand made her marriage stronger 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every story crossing a border deserves an editor who gets it. From up here, the life you left looks smaller. The one you're building looks bigger. Both belong in the story. Unbordered Editorial can help you find the balance unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Final writing prompt in our Threshold series before it closes: What crossed the border with you? This week's prompt: Write about a habit, a belief, a fear, or a joy that traveled with you across the threshold and still shapes how you move through the world. unborderedmag.com/submissions 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Read it here: unbordered.substack.com/p/small-town... 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026At some point, "visiting home" starts to feel more like visiting than coming home. When did that shift happen for you? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026unbordered.substack.com/p/small-town...unbordered.substack.comSmall Town ImmigrantSeventeen Moves to Find One Home 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026That's the difference between working with an editor who's never left home and one who's also sat with a manuscript at 30,000 feet, half a life behind them and half still unpacked. Unbordered Editorial gets it, because we're living it too. unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Neither here nor there. That's where a lot of us live. This week's prompt: write about a place, physical or emotional, where you've felt suspended, belonging fully to neither where you came from nor where you are now. Submissions for Issue 05: Threshold close at the end of the month! 010
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The paperwork of moving abroad could fill a novel nobody wants to read. What was the bureaucratic hurdle that nearly broke you? 100
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Read the latest from Unbordered Mag: unbordered.substack.com/p/layers-and... 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you're writing a book about moving abroad or building a life between two countries, this is for you. Unbordered Editorial offers developmental editing and writing coaching for writers working in memoir, personal essay, and poetry. Follow the link for more unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 001
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The silence right before speaking is a threshold. This week's prompt: Think of a time you hesitated to say something, in a new language or to a new person. What lived in that pause? Issue 05: Thresholds is reading now. Submissions close at the end of the month! 001
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The one way ticket is still one of the bravest things you'll ever buy. Here's to the people who bought theirs. 010
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Holidays hit different from far away. Neither the food on the table nor the people around it look the same. So, how do you spend them now? Do you still celebrate or observe “American” holidays? Or do you let them go by? 100
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Learning a new language as an adult is humbling in a way school never prepared you for. What word still trips you up? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If you ever wanted to learn about sketching OR how to appreciate your new neighborhood abroad, check out this guide: unbordered.substack.com/p/sketching-...unbordered.substack.comSketching My Way Through Moving AbroadA how-to guide for exploring your city with a sketchbook in hand 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The book only you can write is still waiting. It's been waiting in the notebook, in the margins, in the mornings you almost started writing but didn't. We offer developmental editing and writing coaching for the writer ready to finish it. unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This week’s writing prompt: Write a letter from the person you were before you moved abroad, to the person you are now. What would they want to know? What would surprise them? If this one moved something in you, we'd love to read it for Issue 05: Threshold. 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026There's a version of you that only exists in your home country, frozen at the age you left. How often do you think about them? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Some of us moved for love. Others because staying started to feel impossible. Why did you leave, if you're willing to share? 100
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026unbordered.substack.com/p/the-heros-...unbordered.substack.comThe Hero’s JourneyOr Why Immigrants Make the Best Writers 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Unbordered Editorial helps immigrants/expats/migrants tell their stories. If you’re an American living abroad and want help writing yours, we’d love to hear from you: unborderedmag.com/editorial-se... 010
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Every immigrant has a specific “threshold” moment. This week's prompt: Recall the exact doorway. The specific place where you knew your life was about to change. Stay in that moment. Where were you standing? What did the air feel like? We want to read what you find there. 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Moving abroad means leaving some things behind, and every goodbye makes room for you are becoming. 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Read more here: unbordered.substack.com/p/two-poems-... 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The first time someone corrects your pronunciation in a second language, you feel might feel grateful. The next time, you might feel a little annoyed. By the tenth time, you’re either very frustrated or very grateful. Where are you in your language learning journey? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Time zones turn love into math. Someone's morning coffee is your midnight thoughts. How do you stay close to people across the hours? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Some stories can only be written from a distance. If yours is one of them, Unbordered Editorial offers developmental editing and coaching built specifically for Americans living abroad and the stories that come from leaving. unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Some words refuse to cross the border with you. This week's prompt: Write about a word or phrase that doesn't translate. What gets lost when you have to explain it? Issue 05: Threshold is open for submissions. Poetry, essays, nonfiction, and art are all welcome. 010
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This week, we featured a piece by S.N. Corvin that explored how people who left the U.S. might be remembered in the future. We were excited to publish this piece because we all see a little of ourselves in this quote. unbordered.substack.com/p/the-witnes... 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You can love your new country and still cry over a smell that reminds you of home. What smell takes you back? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026There's a specific kind of homesickness that hits randomly, at 4 pm on a weekday, for no obvious reason at all. Is this something you’ve experienced? When does it hit for you? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026unbordered.substack.com/p/the-witnes...unbordered.substack.comThe WitnessA Speculative Dispatch From the Americans Who Left 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Your story doesn't need a translation to be understood here. Unbordered Editorial is a literary studio built for writers living the expat / immigrant experience. unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Journal prompt for people who moved to a new country: Describe what you packed before you left, literally or emotionally. What did you think you'd need? What turned out to matter more? We're reading for Issue 05 now. If this prompt cracked something open, send it our way. 010
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I keep thinking about this quote from this week’s piece by Summer Riffaud. It will be something that sits with me for a long time. unbordered.substack.com/p/accidental... 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Nobody warns you about the grocery store. Standing in an aisle abroad, unsure what anything is, can turn existential really fast. The first time I went looking for baking soda in Uruguay, I almost had a breakdown in the baking aisle. (It's in the pharmacy, btw). Do you have a grocery store moment? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The hardest part of moving abroad isn't packing your life into two suitcases. It's figuring out which parts of yourself made the cut. What did you leave behind? 000
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026unbordered.substack.com/p/accidental...unbordered.substack.comAccidental MosaicOn Belonging Everywhere and Nowhere at Once 010
Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 09/08/2026We help Americans living abroad tell their stories. Developmental editing and writing coaching, built for the writer trying to make sense of a life split between two places. unborderedmag.com/editorial-services 000
