Cape Magazine

Experience. Escapism. Exploration. These three words carry as much delusion as a Kilgore Trout novel, potency as Maya Angelou’s bird cage, and subversion as Dr Manhattan’s big blue penis in conveying why we cherish art. The experience of one artist who wanted to escape the mundanities of life through the exploration of imagination allows their reader to do much the same. Since the first words we ever read, we’ve been sculpted as writers. We are authentically us because they – the artists – were authentically them. Their subjective reality disproves the mass subscription to an objective one, as every word written, and subsequently read, is a unique portal to be leapt into like a flaccid-tongued pup jumping through the spray of a fountain. Our magazine is about discovering your voice (yes, you, reading this, house hunting for the poem that makes your tutors’ mouth pucker like a cat’s asshole, that glorious monstrosity of genre, style, and form or, that visual piece that portals us to uncharted planes) and showcasing it to our readers. You don’t need to be acquainted with what we’ve published beforehand to submit (though we are propagators for reading as vastly as you can), you don’t need to state what genre it is, and you certainly don’t need to alter what makes your writing your writing to be featured. We simply want to read words that have been curated with passion and poise, whether poem or prose, and see the art and photography that’s too good to be flushed down the whirlpool of social media.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United Kingdom

Established in 2020