Somewhere in your life, there is a moment that migration made. A departure, a wait, an arrival that did not look the way you had imagined. A language you reached for and could not find. A door opened by someone whose name you still remember. A home you left in a body that never fully left with you. The Gallery of Human Migration invites you to bring that moment here—not because your story is exceptional, but because it is true, and because this collection is incomplete without it.
Maybe you were the one who moved—who crossed a threshold carrying a language, a recipe, a photograph, a silence. What you carry is not only yours anymore. It belongs to everyone who will recognize themselves in it.
Maybe you were the one who stayed—who held the space someone left, who measured distance in phone calls and the particular grief of a hometown that kept changing without you. That story belongs here too.
Maybe you were the one who received—who was present when someone arrived and felt something shift in your street, your school, your family, your understanding of who we means. That encounter—its welcome or its withholding—is part of this story as much as any crossing. That encounter—its welcome or its withholding—is part of this story as much as any crossing.
Every one of these is a migration story. Every one of them belongs here.
You are not a subject. You are an author — adding your voice to a collection that has never been finished and was never meant to be. The Gallery does not hold your story. It holds space for it. You write it. We receive it with the care it deserves.
The stories this collection holds are personal ones — lived by you, or passed down to you across any number of generations. A crossing made last year and a crossing made a century ago are equally at home here. If migration lives somewhere in your history, however far back you have to travel to find it, this is your place.
Every story that belongs here is published. There is no selection, no competition, no threshold of worthiness to clear. This collection turns no story away.
If you are a researcher, artist, or writer with a perspective on migration that is not your own story, we would love to hear from you—and to publish your voice in From the Gallery.
Begin wherever feels right. There is no wrong door into your own story. Fill out the form below.
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Your story of migration, the one inherited, lived, and witnessed across generations, has a place here. The Tapestry, the 2026 edition of the Gallery’s Migration Literary Award, is an international recognition and publication initiative honouring personal and ancestral stories. Every selected voice is honoured equally. No rankings, no podium. Submissions open March 31 and close August 31, 2026.
