Children's Magazine

A crane always finds its way home. Show us yours.

Dorna means crane. Cranes fly enormous distances, over seas and cities and deserts, and they always find their way home. So for our very first edition, we are asking children everywhere one question: what is home to you?

Home can be so many things. The place you sleep, or the place you used to. The smell of a kitchen. The people around your table. A song, a story someone in your family tells, a street, a tree, a language. Something you carry with you even when you are far away. Or something you are still trying to figure out.

And home does not look the same for everyone. A house, an apartment, a tent, a houseboat, even an igloo: made of brick, or cloth, or snow, or simply made of people.

You can draw it, paint it, write it, photograph it, film it, or sing it. Any language. Any length. The only rule is that it is yours, something you made yourself. A grown-up can help you send it in, but the making is all you.

This is not a contest, and there are no winners or losers. Every piece that reaches us will find its audience: some in the printed magazine, all of them in our online archive, some at readings and events. And everyone who sends something will receive the finished edition when it flies out into the world in spring 2027, in time for Nowruz, the first day of spring.

So fold your idea of home into something you can send, and let it fly to us. The call is open until December 2026.