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Our mission is to represent Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic literature, art, and culture.

We publish essays, fiction, poetry, art, comics, and hybrid pieces by writers and artists from Southeast Asia and those of the Southeast Asian diaspora. We also welcome profiles and interviews with culture makers and reviews of works. Southeast Asia encompasses: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. We publish primarily in English and welcome pieces in other languages if there is an English translation as well. We aim to reply to all submissions within two months. At this time, we cannot offer an honorarium.

Guidelines for Submissions

Please send PDF or Word .docx submissions.
Include a brief bio.
In the subject line, please provide the title and the genre or series of your submission. For example: “Book review: A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure” or “this is for mẹ: Coffee and Culture with Phin.”
Preferred word limit: Limit poetry to 10 pages and prose to 2,500 words.

Pitches for essays and profiles are welcomed. All submissions should be sent to [email protected].

Our Sections

Creative works: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms
this is for mẹ: works exploring the subjects of mothers, motherhood, motherlands, mother tongues and family.
Interviews: Interviews or write-ups of writers, artists, organizations, or projects within and about the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.
Essays: Commentary on matters of cultural, political, personal, and aesthetic concern for the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.
Reviews: Reviews of books, films, shows, performance, visual art, and music by creatives within the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora.

If you’re a publisher, author, or publicist and would like to submit a book for review consideration, please contact us. If you would like to contribute a review, contact us with a query or let us know your interest and the genre(s) you would like to write about; please provide links to any previous work if possible. For a list of books to review, visit this list.

Special Calls

diaCRITICS is looking for submissions for our next themed issue!

Theme: Alienation

Alienation is a profound sense of isolation, estrangement, or disconnection from society. Alienation is a common trait of the immigrant and refugee experience and perhaps more so for immigrants and refugees of color living in the West, given the history of colonialism, imperialism, and racism.

But with the rise of anti-immigrant conservativism–one marked by mass deportation, mass surveillance, government abductions, and deaths–this feeling of alienation has changed shape and intensity. What does this moment mean for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic communities? How does this moment look from the perspective of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diasporic lens?

diaCRITICS seeks work from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian communities that investigates the theme of immigration and alienation, particularly in this current moment of anti-immigrant sentiment worldwide. We are open to fiction, poetry, essays, interviews/profiles of artists who deal with this theme, and reviews of books, movies, theatre, music, exhibits that address this issue.

All submissions should be sent to [email protected]. Include “Themed Issue” in your email subject line.

Deadline: May 31, 2026