Scalar Magazine is a new online publication premiering in August 2011 featuring articles, fiction, poetry and art from minority women around the world. If you are interested in submitting content for the first issue please email it in word format or jpeg to
Editor-in-Chief
Naomi Pattirane
Email: editor@scalarmagazine.com
Telephone: (+44) 07931524217
Advertising and web consultant
Jackson Kelly
Email: advertising@scalarmagazine.com
Scalar Magazine brings you news, reviews, events and social commentary from women around the world who can show you their part of the globe from their own unique perspective.
With contributors from Sweden to Sri Lanka, Indonesia to Afghanistan and beyond read the world news brought to you from the women who live in it.
Articles [...]
Read about life experiences of women authors from around the globe sharing their unique voice with inspiring personal narratives and stories of life from their culture and beyond.
Read about the journeys of women from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, their struggles, triumphs and will to survive in an ever changing world.
Submissions from women of [...]
Scalar Magazine showcases fiction from new and established female authors from around the world. Our writers are international women of diverse ethnicity from all walks of life reflecting our global tapestry.
All genres are welcome for submission, short stories with a maximum of 5000 words are preferred. Please include a jpeg photo and short biography in [...]
Scalar Magazine is a platform for female poets from around the world. Heartfelt, off-beat, unique, our contributors are diverse artists of every age and from every walk of life.
Read original poetry from new and established writers, contributions are welcome. Please include a short biography and a jpeg photo with your submission to editor@scalarmagazine.com.
Scalar Magazine features art, design and photography from extraordinary and diverse female artists from around the world.
Discover unique new artists from every continent with images that are moving, off-beat, poignant, humourous, political and personal.
Submissions are always welcome, please send images in jpeg format to editor@scalarmagazine.com.
LEVITATION by Niama Leslie Williams, Ph.D.
i pass down the hall
decide, midstep, to join him
in the latest gift to me
of this retiree:
afternoon naps.
a worker bee
daylight to dawn
midnight to three my furious
feverish hours
driving further to consciousness
what used to be
necessary nighttime vigilance
that did not protect
at 47 i wake to a human
who throws back the covers
gleefully when i [...]
Shhh, shhh, concentrate on my voice, not the comb in your hair, okay? Goodness, your hair is so thick, though, child. Now I know you like to hear about your great-grandmother Yaya, and if you stop moving around, I’ll tell you. I knew her myself, you know. Yes, I was very [...]
Like the others, Zainab was a prostitute. Like the others, she did not start as one. And like the others, she remembered in every minute detail how she had arrived in Jakarta for the first time. Later she told him how she could still feel the buzz through the sole of [...]