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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you want assistance writing a story of queer exile/surviving/joy abroad, we want to be the ones to help you tell it. At Unbordered Editorial, we understand your stories because we’re living them too.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Unbordered Magazine publishes art and writing by Americans living abroad.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You've started it in your head a hundred times. Let's finally get it on the page. We help Americans living abroad tell their stories and navigate their publishing journey. Tell us how we can help you! unborderedmag.com/editorial-services

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is the season the calendar says it is, and there is the season your body still believes in. After a move, the two are often at odds. We're looking for writing and art that explores the seasons of a life lived abroad, in whatever form that takes for you. unborderedmag.com/submissions

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every 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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Final 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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Read it here: unbordered.substack.com/p/small-town...

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That'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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Neither 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!

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Read the latest from Unbordered Mag: unbordered.substack.com/p/layers-and...

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If 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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The 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!

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The one way ticket is still one of the bravest things you'll ever buy. Here's to the people who bought theirs.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The 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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This 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.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Unbordered 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...

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Every 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.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Moving abroad means leaving some things behind, and every goodbye makes room for you are becoming.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Read more here: unbordered.substack.com/p/two-poems-...

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Some 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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Some 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.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This 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...

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Your 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

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Journal 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.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I 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...

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Writing prompt for anyone who has left home: Write about the final glance you took right before you left. What did you notice in that last moment that you didn't expect to? Issue 05: Threshold is open for submissions. Essays, poetry, nonfiction, and art.

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Check out this new poem by @debraguckenheimer.com in our second issue! unbordered.substack.com/p/jfc-poem-m...

Softly blurred image of a figure on a cliff, overlaid with poem text about judgment and fear from “JFC” by Debra Guckenheimer, with Unbordered branding in the corner. The text says, "I notice the people watching us. Their judgmental eyes blaming us, shaming us, how dare we exist here? How dare we not try to make ourselves more pleasing? They're not coming for you, stop paying so much attention."

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Unbordered Mag @unborderedmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The story of leaving the U.S. has, historically, been told through the lens of wealth and privilege. But we know that there is more to the story. We want to hear your truth. Submissions are now open for Unbordered, a magazine by and for American emigrants. Link in bio or go to unborderedmag.com

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