Polyphony Lit, a literary publication dedicated to amplifying young and emerging voices, has issued a call for its Latin Heritage Contest 2026. The contest is open to submitters with Latino/a/e background and operates without an entry fee, lowering barriers to participation. The theme, 'Repeating History,' draws explicitly on Mesoamerican conceptions of cyclical time—the Aztec belief in successive worlds—and on literary precedents such as Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, where generations repeat ancestral patterns despite believing themselves free of them. Submitters are asked to consider how history repeats, how it shapes individual choices, and how we remain susceptible to its recurrences. The contest runs from September 1 to November 30, 2026, with a final deadline of December 1, 2026. While the prize structure is not specified in the provided materials, the absence of a fee and the thematic seriousness of the call signal an editorial commitment to work that engages with inheritance, memory, and the cyclical nature of cultural and personal history. Polyphony Lit's broader mission—to publish and mentor emerging writers—suggests that selected work will be considered for publication within its pages, though specific terms are not detailed here. This is not a general call for identity-based work. The theme is a curatorial constraint: submissions should demonstrate a genuine engagement with the idea of repetition—historical, familial, mythological, or formal. The contest is open across all disciplines and genres, including translation, which aligns with the thematic interest in transmission and recurrence across languages and generations. Writers are advised to read the full guidelines on Polyphony Lit's website before submitting.