Red Door — Issue #45: Memory. Archive. Identity.

Overview
Red Door Magazine has operated as an arts and culture publication since its founding in New York in 2009, and now publishes from Copenhagen, Denmark. The magazine appears in two forms: a limited-edition printed issue shipped worldwide to subscribers, and a free digital edition. This dual circulation places accepted work before both a collecting readership and a broader online audience, a distinction worth noting for practitioners weighing where their work will live. For Issue #45, the editorial theme is "Memory. Archive. Identity." The magazine states that its themes are open to far-fetched interpretations and are not bound to narrow definitions. This is an invitation to interpretive range rather than a constraint: the terms may be approached through personal history, documentary practice, institutional critique, speculative reconstruction, or formal experimentation, among other routes. The publication's stated preference is for a submitter's finest work, not work bent to fit a prescribed reading of the theme. Submission logistics are specific and should be treated as part of the editorial brief. There is a $3.00 (USD) reading fee. Only one submission is permitted per submission period. Poetry entries may include up to three poems of up to 50 lines each, within a maximum of six pages. Manuscripts must be set in 12-point, single-spaced Times New Roman and uploaded as .doc or .docx files only. A cover letter with a short third-person biography of no more than 75 words is required. The deadline is November 2, 2026.