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Opportunities for Trans Writers

updated May 10, 2016 Calls for Submission - Journals, Magazines, Workshops, Conferences, etc.

⭐ = new this week

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Listed in order of deadline, from soonest to latest

May 12, 2016 - THEM Lit - Issue III. Print and online publication featuring work by authors under the “trans umbrella.” Fiction, nonfiction, experimental, and poetry. Prose: under 2,000 words, Poetry: 3-7 poems

http://themlit.com/submit/

May 16, 2016 - Trans Fiction Anthology (with focus on sexuality) - Editor: Tobi Hill-Meyer, Publisher: Instar Books. Trans and cis authors sought. 2,000-5,000 words.

http://handbasketproductions.com/call-for-submissions/

⭐ May 17, 2016 - Banango Street - Issue 12. Essays/creative non-fiction only for this issue. Online literary journal. Editors especially seeking work from writers who are “frequently underrepresented in literary conversations.”

http://banangostreet.com/submit/

May 25, 2016 - Alien Mouth - Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Online (monthly) and print (quarterly). Trans editor on staff.

http://alienmouth.com/submit/

June 1, 2016 - Chelsea Station Magazine - Special issue for queer trans men and trans masculine people. Fiction, poetry, nonfiction and more. Editors: Mitch Kellaway and Aj Sass.

http://www.chelseastationmagazine.com/2016/01/special-issue-call-for-submissions.html

June 5, 2016 - HIV Here and Now Project - Poetry and prose. Online, daily lit project aiming to “advocate for a world without HIV/AIDS.” Counting down to 35 years of AIDS on June 5, 2016. All authors invited, regardless of serostatus. Content does not need to focus on HIV/AIDS.

http://www.hivhereandnow.com/

⭐ June 8, 2016 - Women Writers’ Workshop - Topside Press. Inaugural summer intensive writers’ workshop for trans women, taught by Sarah Schulman, for fiction and non-fiction. August 15-19, 2016 in NYC. Scholarships/travel stipends available. http://topsidepress.com/news/proclamation/

⭐ June 15, 2016 - Wherever I’m With You - Personal essays (approx. 2k-3k words) by women exploring the theme of home. To be published by Seal Press in 2017. Actively welcoming to trans women and GNC writers. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/writers/subs/04/18/call-for-submissions-seal-press/

June 30, 2016 - The James Franco Review - Issue 8, Fiction editor Ryka Aoki. Prose up to 8,000 words. Poetry, 3-5 poems. Themes are as follows: Poetry: Crash The Margins / Fiction: Abundance / Nonfiction: Bodies of Evidence.

https://thejamesfrancoreview.com/submission-guidelines/

June 30, 2016 - Defining Myself - Poetry by and about transmasculine individuals (FTM, including non-binary). Submit up to 10 poems within 13 provided topics. Up to 5 poems from a single author may be chosen for publication. See more info at the CFS.

http://boundlessendeavors.com/call-for-poetry-defining-myself/

⭐ July 1, 2016 - Polychrome Ink Literary Magazine Issue IV - Prose and poetry with a focus on “the multi-facets of diversity.” Trans editor(s) on staff.

http://zillion-press.com/polychrome-ink/

August 15, 2016 - Trans Homo …Gasp! - Anthology to be published by Transgress Press. Editors Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey. Nonfiction (memoir) 1,500-2,500 words, by and about gay/queer trans men and cis men on the subjects of dating, relationships, etc.

Detailed guidelines: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IH5ct5goRgx6jB5QjIbr9TjllwNRKOGdsirrkd9e82E/edit

August 31, 2016 - Jonathan - Semi-annual lit mag. History of gay-focused prose and poetry, but has published trans authors and is actively seeking trans authors of all genders. Submissions open June 1, 2016: https://siblingrivalrypress.com/jonathan/

September 6, 2016 - EOAGH Special Issue - Trans Women Across Genres. Creative writing in any genre, prose, poetry, nonfiction, experimental all accepted. Author should self-identify as a trans woman. Edited by Trace Peterson

More info: http://eoagh.com/?page_id=2177

October 30, 2016 - Heavy Feather Review - Print and online lit mag. Trans editor on staff (Non-fiction editor, Colette Arrand). Poetry: 3-6 poems, Prose: no limits

https://heavyfeatherreview.com/submit/

Rolling Deadlines

Alphabetical by outlet name

⭐ The Antioch Review - Responses, critiques, and letters to the editor regarding the publication of the Daniel Harris essay “The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate” found in the Winter 2016 issue of this publication. A selection of critiques will be published in print and/or online.

More info: http://review.antiochcollege.org/antioch-review-editor-bob-fogarty

Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry - Self-identified gay male authors. Submit up to 10 poems.

More info: https://siblingrivalrypress.com/assaracus/

Crab Fat Magazine - Website and digital magazine. Flash (up to 1000 words) and short (up to 3,000 words) fiction, poetry (3-6 poems up to 10 pages), creative non-fiction (up to 3,000 words), and more. Editors are all trans and/or non-binary.

More info: http://crabfatmagazine.com/

EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts - Annual online journal. Poetry, prose, and more. Up to 5 pages of poetry. Prose, any length. Edited by Trace Peterson.

More info: http://eoagh.com/?page_id=24

The Fem Lit Mag - Feminist online journal esp. Seeking writers from LGBTQIA/disabled/POC or other oppressed communities. Fiction and nonfiction: up to 4,000 words. Poetry: up to 5 poems.

More info: https://thefemlitmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/

Harlot.Media - Feminist online magazine. Seeking essays, fiction, poetry, and other genres from marginalized, female-identified writers. Trans editors on staff, lots of trans content.

More info: http://harlot.media/contribute-to-us

Jellyfish Highway Press - Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry full manuscripts for publication. Trans editor on staff.

More info: http://www.jellyfishhighway.com/submissions/

⭐ Lumen Mag - Fiction/nonfiction/poetry/experimental, more. Up to approx. 500 words. Currently open for submissions to the blog. Open to cis women, trans women, non-binary writers. More info: http://www.lumenmag.net/blog/

TQ Review - Digital Literary Journal. Fiction/nonfiction up to 3,000 words. Up to 10 pages of poetry. Editors are all trans and/or non-binary.

More info: http://damagedgoodspress.com/tq-review/

About this list

This is a compilation of CFS’s that:

are specifically for trans writers or may be of special interest to trans writers (because of the editorial team, subject matter, etc)

do not charge a reading fee

are currently accepting submissions (or will be very soon)

are seeking short fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or experimental writing

Got manuscript? See our list of LGBT/Feminist publishers: http://topsidepress.com/about-topside-press/submissions/

Editors: Are you hoping transgender writers submit to your project? Email us the details at [email protected] and we’ll add you to this list. The list is published each Tuesday, so please submit your info by Monday. If you don’t see it here, we didn’t get your email.

articianne

i cannot stress this enough

if you are an eligible voter in the US this coming election and bernie sanders does not have the democratic nomination

you. have. to. vote. for. hillary.

i am not fucking messing around

i am not gonna sit here while you write in names or go on some fucking strike. hillary is not on the same level as donald trump. all of you who act like that’s a hard choice are ridiculous. you vote for hillary clinton if she gets the primary. if you don’t, you give trump the presidency. clear and simple. normally i would not advocate against writing in names, but at this point writing in names would take away from hillary’s vote if she is the nominee–EVEN IF YOU WRITE IN BERNIE SANDERS, YOU GIVE TRUMP A HIGHER CHANCE AT THE PRESIDENCY, AND YOU DON’T WANT THAT.

not even a year ago y’all were laughing about donald trump. don’t fuck this up. in no world is hillary clinton as bad as donald trump.

dollsahoy

To all the people in the notes saying no, I’ll just say: As much as prefer Sanders and am ambivalent-at-best about Clinton, I watched Gore lose to Bush because people voted for Nader and I do not want to see that happen again just because people aren’t learning from history.

sunshinygrrrl

Here’s how it works. Even if you can sustain through another right wing presidency, a lot of us cannot. And if you really like Bernie Sanders, then you have to vote for Hillary if she gets the nom. Bernie won’t be able to get anything done with trump. Hillary will at the very least, toe the party line and not veto anything he helps to pass. And if you are out there and just thinking, I’m not going to vote this year because my person didn’t win. Get out and vote for hillary and vote for all the down ticket democrats that share part of your vision. We’re not all going to agree on everything. That’s part of democracy. But Trump and the republicans, likely hold most of America ill will at this point. Go out and make sure we can get things passed and keep things from being repealed. This is not a joke or an exaggeration.

oddly-romantic

“why aren’t u talking abt this one Problematic thing involving that actor/show u like??”

listen. i am tired. im putting down my pitchfork. i’ll acknowledge that thing was bad if it was but im tired of vilifying ppl for their mistakes just bc they’re famous. i want to enjoy things. i want Peace

exfoliate

For a long time I was second guessing everything I liked because they did this or that wrong, the actors did this, the writers did that, they left out this or ignored that… It’s just too much.

It’s just so tiring. Acknowledge where they can do better, but give yourself a break for the things you like. No one is perfect and you can like things that aren’t perfect.

oceanicpride

Ms. Bellum will not be returning to the PPG reboot @bugeyedfreaks

bugeyedfreaks

Um, NO. My worst fears are confirmed.

This is a terrible choice! Miss Bellum was smart and capable and amazing and sexy but able to do her job despite her amazing looks. Her outer appearance didn’t matter. Her BRAINS are what mattered. What, smart women don’t fit your narrative, Nick? She wasn’t some airhead who was just there to be good looking. Why didn’t they just show her face and make her the new Mayor or something? Show that she was able to move up in the world? Have the Mayor still be in the show but retired or something? How would that not be empowering to girls?

And oh my god, the way they wrote her in that clip is what they actually think of her, as just some sultry secretary trope. I want to throw up.

I really hate this reboot. They cut out a great female character that they could have made even better, they diss all but one of the veteran female voice actresses, and turn the girls into vapid tweens. This is not the Powerpuff way and this isn’t being feminist. What a bunch of morons.

raygirlramblings

‘never rose above being assistant to the mayor’???

SHE WAS THE ONE KEEPING TOWNSVILLE TOGETHER.

You really think the man who couldn’t get a damn pickle jar open could run a city constantly under threat from a neighbouring monster island and a cast of colourful villains? No, we all know who the real power was behind the throne.

She was a strong, kind woman (who also happened to be good looking BUT WE CAN’T HAVE GOOD LOOKING WOMEN ON A COMEDY ANIMATED TV SHOW THAT SETS A BAD EXAMPLE HMMM) that the girls looked to as an authority figure for the CITY. Sure they took orders from the Mayor and there was also Miss Keen, but Miss Bellum was a badass.

She gave the girls confidence and advice as a mature woman. But she also taught them humility and patience. She had to work under a useless boss but did it with respect and dedication.

SHE TOOK ON SEDUSA BARE HANDED, WITH NO SUPER POWERS, WHILE WEARING FISHNETS AND KNEE HIGH BOOTS, AND KICKED HER ARSE.

This new series. It’s a MESS.

Justice for Miss Bellum

bugeyedfreaks

Praise be to this reblog. OTL

inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac

Seems like the writers views on Miss Bellum are just as shallow on judging her by her appearance, not what she was truly capable of.

micdotcom

Justin Trudeau doesn’t want a cookie for being a male feminist. So maybe the Twitterverse should stop with these reactions.

profeminist

More Justin Trudeau posts

profeminist

VOTING MATTERS, PEOPLE! YOU CAN END UP WITH SOMEONE COOL LIKE TRUDEAU, OR SOMEONE LIKE THIS:

U.S READERS, REGISTER TO VOTE HERE

punlich

Cathy Brennan has autogothicphilia. She isn’t genuinely goth, she’s fetishized being goth into a paraphilia and she needs counseling, not dark makeup and elegant dresses

the-real-eye-to-see

An artist in Baltimore wrote names of fatal victims of the police force along the sidewalk.

She began with victims killed on May 1st of 2013 and wrote every name that was recorded until the present day.

Names stretched from Penn Station to a George Washington monument in the middle of the city, which is nearly a mile in distance.

Source

#RIP to the lost ones by police brutality.

bottomfoggy

mxbuster

I love him, this is beautiful.

sweaterkittensahoy

Suddenly wondering why more long-haired dudes don’t do awesome updos to get their hair out of their faces for red carpet suff. Oh, right. Ridiculous gender roles.

the-wordbutler-deactivated20230

Sara’s said that he also paints his nails for premieres, and I have found pictures online that confirm his nails went with this outfit. He might be one of my new favorites.

nmkerr

I love it when anyone in the public eye just cheerfully fucks gender roles right over.

cosmictuesdays

#he looks like the most dapper of hobbits

anthonybrxdgerton

HE LOOKS ADORABLE

optimysticals

I love the side part on the front that works it’s way to centered for the braids in the back.

jewishdragon

princess-bonnie-deactivated2016

This is an incredibly important lesson to learn.

micdotcom

Quick, somebody get Ted Cruz some Neosporin for those burns. Warren wasn’t even done. She goes on to tweet what he should be doing instead of complaining.

wilwheaton

But but but being the Zodiac Killer is hard

feministwomenofcolor

Warren totally destroyed him tho

happierman

what i meant to say was “thanks for your email. unfortunately Alice Isn’t Dead hasn’t really been targeting the Entitled Solipsist demographic. good luck avoiding content warnings in your other free media consumption.”

sadkhajiit-deactivated20180417

this is hilarious this guy is going to tell his friends not to listen to this because of what it has in it. what’s it called, again, what’s the name for it, when you tell someone what a piece of media has in it so that they can avoid it if they don’t want to see that? what’s that concept called

chrstabellathornofthebriars-blog

When it comes down to it, TERFs are misogynist towards all women.

This whole time, we as feminists have fought against men who tried to define us and tell us what a woman could and couldn’t be. Now TERFs use the same weapon against trans women. We have fought for the right to ownership of our bodies and our sexuality. We have been called sluts by men who claimed we were sexualizing ourselves, when in the end, we were only guilty of owning female bodies, so that they could absolve themselves of their desire to sexualize and objectify us. Now TERFs use the same weapon against trans women. We have fought against men who wish to define women as nothing more than a walking set of genitals, a baby factory

Now TERFs use the same weapon against trans women. We have fought against men who sought to invade our safe spaces. Now TERFS seek to thrust trans women violently out of safety, and into the hands of men. Every time a TERF demands an explanation of what makes a trans woman a “real” woman, she indirectly demands the same of every cis woman. Every time a TERF accuses a trans woman of sexualizing the female body by owning one, and dressing it, and even altering it to achieve happiness and self-expression and ownership, she indirectly slut shames every cis woman. Every time a TERF defines a woman as a vagina owner, she implies that women are nothing but bodies for men to use. Every time a TERF ejects a trans woman from one of our safe spaces, she bathes her hands in women’s blood. Feminist may be a title you claim But misogyny lives in everything you do. And feminist is the last thing you’ll ever be.

rembrandtswife

John Rogers is the Anti-Moffat

Or, things you can learn while watching Leverage with commentary.

John Rogers and Nate Ford have a lot in common, especially when it comes to alcohol. Not only does Rogers usually tell the listener what he’s drinking, you can often hear the ice clinking in the glass when other people are talking.

Take away Eliot’s disastrous military career and stint as assassin for hire and you basically have Christian Kane: musician, chef, brawler, actor. The man does all of his own fights, I swear.

Sterling never loses, but he sometimes admits Nate is right.

At the beginning of each episode, the commentators introduce themselves. At the beginning of “The Frame-up Job”, in which Sterling thinks Sophie has stolen a famous painting, every commentator impersonates Mark Sheppard as Sterling during his introduction.

Portland is full of good actors.

Every instance of fraud on the show has real-life counterparts, most of which are far worse than what the show portrayed.

The heartbreaking detail of Hardison, Parker, and Eliot holding hands in death was *not* in the script, but came from the actors.

Pretty much everybody cried on set during the filming of the final episode.

Gina Bellman decided on Sophie’s real name.

John Rogers subscribes to the Smithers Hypothesis, which is that shows are more interesting if you assume the bad guy’s sidekick is secretly in love with him. (This applies regardless of the genders of the bad guy and the sidekick.)

Rogers also subscribes to the theory that the characters’ sex lives are “whatever makes you want to watch the show”.

Rogers really is the Anti-Moffat. I came to this conclusion after noticing how often he compliments Gina Bellman, Beth Riesgraf, and Jeri Ryan on their appearance, then listening to how he does it and what he says about the men on the show. The right pair of boots on an actress will make him fervently exclaim, “Jesus Murphy!” He seems to think Beth Riesgraf has the best smile in the world. But he’s full of praise for the skill of Nadine Haders, their chief costumer, and he lavishes much more praise on the actresses’ work than on their legs. He also repeatedly calls Christian Kane “charming” and acknowledges that women go for him. He openly admires how Aldis Hodge looks in a suit. And he’s lavish in praise for the men’s acting as for the women’s.

I have actually not once heard John Rogers say anything skeevy about women, in four seasons’ worth of commentaries. (I don’t have season one yet.) All of his female characters have depth and agency. None of them is ever merely a damsel in distress, not even a 12-year-old girl. Nobody, male or female, ever gets shamed for having sex. Set the number of times he admires an actress in boots or remarks on her charisma next to the number of times he praises her ability and craft as an actress, and his praise for ability and craft weighs far more.

John Rogers is the Anti-Moffat, and this is another reason why you should watch Leverage.

wesschneider

These are just a few of the ungenerous reviews the new Baldur’s Gate expansion, Siege of Dragonspear, is getting on Steam. The game has generated this response entirely because Beamdog Entertainment included a trans character in their updated material.

All they did was INCLUDED a trans character. Baldur’s Gate occupies a place at the crossroads of video gaming, tabletop gaming, and gaming nostalgia. Obviously it’s attracted the worst elements from all of these communities. It’s also meant that a friend has faced days of harassment.

I’m not asking that you buy this game—though, that couldn’t hurt. Rather, please, lend Beamdog your support, your kind words, your appreciation for helping to make gaming more inclusive, and a reminder that adding LGBTQ content to a game wins more than public hate, harassment, and toxic reviews.

(Additionally, you should absolutely check out Kathrine Cross’s words on Virtue Signalling & Trans Characters in Baldur’s Gate.)

This company’s takeaway from this experience, in 2016, cannot be that including LGBTQ content in a video game is not worth the pain.

Your support and positivity would mean a great deal right now.

Steam page for Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear.

Beamdog’s forum for Siege of Dragonspear.

Beamdog’s Twitter account.

jessicalprice

In the crosshairs of these broken fractions of human beings is Amber Scott, author of Wrath of the Righteous–the person who created or gave more than a mere mention to our Empyreal Lords: Arshea, Ragathiel, Pulura, Eritrice, and all the others. She also created Anevia, our first really featured trans character.

Amber possesses the virtues we assume good writers have–wit, elegance, smarts, and creativity. But more than that, she’s the most extraordinarily compassionate writer I’ve read, both to her readers and to her characters. She’s done so much work to make games large-hearted and generous to everyone, and seeing her torn down by people who want to make them smaller, duller, and more exclusionary is breaking my heart.

micchy-did-nothing-wrong

So wait. Can anyone answer this? Did they simply include a trans character, or did they make it flagrantly obvious that the character was trans at every opportunity to the point where they’re nothing more than a token character? I feel I have a lack of information here and would really appreciate some clarification on that subject.

jessicalprice

She’s a very minor NPC. You meet her, and if you ask her about your quest, she doesn’t mention anything about being trans.

There’s an option to ask her about her name. If you do, she’ll tell you she changed it because her birth name didn’t fit her.

If you press her for details, she’ll mention that when she was a kid, her parents thought she was a boy.

That’s literally it.

teal-deer

Wait seriously? That’s what these chucklefucks are on about? An optional side conversation!?

/pulls at face

jessicalprice

That and the fact that she doesn’t flirt with you. They’re all “we support trans characters, we just don’t like this one because she’s poorly written, unlike THESE EXAMPLES [cite highly sexualized trans characters designed to appeal to men]!”

Which, I think it’s absolutely cool to have sexy, flirty trans women in your game. But it also has to be okay to have trans women who aren’t designed to be sexually gratifying to straight men.

sunshinygrrrl

It’s also a false flag. They don’t really care about the trans character and are just using that and the bugs to appear legitimate in their complaints. The reason she was targeted was because she mentioned in an interview that they were taking out some of the sexism because those aren’t the kind of stories they wanted to tell.

jenndolari-deactivated20160922

You climb a mountain, only to find another mountain behind it. That’s how I often see the transgender fight in this country. And I’m very tired of climbing mountains. But I know what happens if I don’t. It’s called North Carolina and Mississippi

sunshinygrrrl

To be fair, we got kicked off that mountain after climbing a third of the way up. That wasn't another mountain, it was being thrown off a cliff while the few allies we had tried to hold onto us.

crustai

Trump tweeted a video of his campaign with a voice over of The Illusive Man playing over it, and meant it seriously.

I’d still vote for TIM before I voted for Trump though, tbh

lesbianrey

no its even better than that. it’s literally the Mass Effect 2 trailer remixed to make trump into shepard

drenn

EA reported a copyright violation and got it removed.

thecheshirecass-deactivated2018

I am so weirdly proud of EA right now.

sunshinygrrrl

Does he not know that shepherd is aggressively bi and worked for real peace between factions that have been at war for centuries, and you know, a woman. Also, Shepherd, you know, served in the military, she led by example, she didn’t put people through the things she wouldn’t do herself. She was a war hero. And the Illusive man was literally the guy that she never trusted and when the chips were down, he didn’t even realize he was being corrupted the entire time he was being indoctrinated.