Also, you must own the rights to any work you submit—it must be your own, original work. Since across South Asia, our lives as queer people are both fucked up and joyous in many different and similar ways, we seek this volume to reflect these many queer worlds that belong to us. And by a ‘poem’, we mean all its forms. Send 1-3 poems. However, we want to make a particular effort that this does not constrain the scope of everything that this volume could be. Please take this into consideration when submitting poetry. If the piece has been previously published, We accept submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, art, and photography. As is evident, we don’t have any one criteria of what ‘queer poetry’ is in terms of theme or form (as if there could be one!). We want to make a particular effort to include poets from across South Asia, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Maldives, Afghanistan, conflict regions of Kashmir, Baluchistan and within the ‘Northeast’, and their many diasporas. This queer-focused website “spans the worlds of queer culture, the feminine narrative, marginalized communities, and politics and culture.” They want nonfiction, short stories, poetry, satire, comics, illustrations, and photo essays. All forms, styles, and lengths of poetry are welcome. Please help us in making it everything that you envision such a book can be. Queer Perspectives Call for Submissions . LGBTQ love poetry by and for gay men, lesbians, and the queer community. It’s great to stay informed, but it’s also important not to let ourselves get hopelessly anxious over the latest headlines. Your poems could romanticize or demystify. We know pointedly that the two editors of this volume are Indian, Delhi-based and upper-caste, cis-gendered queer poets.
Mizna welcomes poetry, stories, creative essays, flash fiction, comics, and other literary interpretations of these topics, whether direct or indirect. Acting Up: Queer in the New Century Seeking submissions for an anthology about the way LGBT+ people have grown up, come of age, come out, acted up, and raised children in our new century. The Malahat Review: Queer Perspectives. Identifying information is hidden when we review submissions, so do not include your name on any page of your submitted work.We generally respond to all submissions within 6 to 8 weeks after the posted submission deadline.
Call for Submissions An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia Editors: Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal HarperCollins Publishers India Email for submissions and queries: queerpoetrysouthasia@gmail.com Deadline: 31 July 2018 This #PrideMonth, we are super excited to announce that we’re putting together an anthology of Queer Poetry from across South Asia. Lower quality versions can be submitted initially, but a high-quality version will be required upon acceptance.Art pieces are printed full-bleed and may be cropped upon publication to fit the page size.The winners of the Utah Contest will receive a cash prize ($75 for first place and $25 for second place) as well as publication in the following issue of -We are a lifestyle art publication that encourages deep analysis and thought, pushing for progressive change and identification. #StoriesCreateBooks Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: submissions will be opening back up January 1, 2021 fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry, art, and photography. How gender and sexuality are not the only things behind it. Please include title of work and type of work in the file name. It is whatever you want it to be and we seek submissions that will reflect your queer lives, emotions, ideas, challenges and flights of fancy.This is going to be a special volume for all of us and we want to make it ambitious and inclusive. We just want to be enraptured by what you send us.Your poems could be in any language of the subcontinent, including English. Submissions from queer and trans writers will be prioritized, as will submissions from Black trans women and Black transfeminine nonbinary writers. We do allow simultaneous submissions and previously published work. We are interested in many genres, and the subject matter does not need to be queer themed—we only ask that contributors identify as queer/LGBTQIA+. You could be a poet just starting out or someone who has been writing for years. We would love it if you would spread it widely among the poets, amateur and established, in the many queer communities and individuals that you know and love around you. Your poems could answer what we wish or militate against it. Time to take a break from reading the news (after you’ve called your senators/ the remaining undecided senators to protest the American Healthcare Act https://5calls.org).
As a volunteer staff, we all stay very busy with full-time jobs and personal lives, and because of this, we want to take a little down time from editing and producing new issues just to get the business end in tip-top shape. For those of you who would like to remain anonymous or use a pseudonym for your submissions for this book, we enthusiastically welcome your poems as well.We seek submissions both in non-English languages and in English. Although the volume will finally be printed in English, we want to make a real effort to include non-English queer voices in translation. We do allow simultaneous submissions and previously published work. We are interested in many genres, and the subject matter does not need to be queer themed—we only ask that contributors identify as queer/LGBTQIA+. Books, stories and storytelling. They want work by Canadian LGBTQ+ writers. The Malahat Review invites writers identifying as LGBTQ2S?