Tint Journal

Tint Journal is the first online literary journal with an explicit focus on writers who produce creative texts in English as their second or non-native language.
By choosing English as their means of communication, these writers provide their English reading audience with an immediate take on their values, ideas, and beliefs. They bridge borders and blend cultures without the third party of the translator and offer the purest and deepest understanding of their fiction and nonfiction worlds. The width and depth of these translingual and transnational transgressions undertaken by ESL writers can be visually grasped by our interactive world map of published writers in Tint Journal. While we understand that the redrawing of national boundaries and language groups has to be seen critically, we want to give our readers, submitters, and other interestees a most accessible way to the world represented in our digital pages. Our published writers are free to state multiple nationalities as the places they'd like to be associated with, or poetically recreate these places in their biographies.
Our mission is to create a platform for emerging and established ESL writers and encourage them to stand behind their non-native English backgrounds. Their language has a uniquely modifying quality that enriches their stories and consequently their readers’ responses to their stories. We think that this quality has been ignored — even shamed — for too long. Through the innovative, tinted lenses of ESL writers, we shine a light on the ways that authors all over the globe can contribute to what we know as literature in English.

Country of Publication & Year Established

Austria

Established in 2019

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