INTRODUCTIONS
Writing Magazine presents a selection of current LGBTQ+ submission calls. We strongly recommend that you read back issues, familiarise yourself with their guidelines before submitting and check websites for submission details.
Fourteen Poems is a London-based print poetry journal that publishes work by LGBTQ+ poets three times a year. The next submissions deadline is 15 September. Send up to five poems and a brief paragraph about yourself by email. Each accepted poem is paid £25. Fourteen Poems also publishes solo pamphlets of queer poetry. Send up to forty pages of poetry and an introductory paragraph about you, your work and how you identify in the LGBTQ+ community.
Website: www.fourteenpoems.com/ submit
Knight Errant Press is a small independent queer publisher based in Scotland that strives to represent intersectional LGBTQIA+ creators and publish a wide range of narratives featuring LGBTQIA+ characters and themes. Publisher Nathan Kunitsky’s focus is on accessible, entertaining short-form fiction, non-fiction, comics and poetry, and submissions are welcomed, particularly in the areas of trans prose, horror, climate fiction, sapphic prose, sexy LGBTQI+ stories, science fiction and fantasy. Submit short novels, novellas, graphic novels, flash fiction collections and poetry collections.
Website: www.knighterrantpress.com
Leading independent commercial publisher Joffe Books encourages LGBT submissions. Joffe Books is particularly interested in crime and mystery submissions, but also women’s fiction, historical fiction and romance. Submissions to Joffe Books can come from agents and direct from authors, and should consist of a full-length commercial manuscript, a three-paragraph submission and an paragraph introducing the author.
Website: www.joffebooks.com
Sapere Books is not currently accepting frontlist titles, but is keen to resissue backlist titles and is particularly interested to hear from under-represented writers, including LGBTQ+ authors, who have backlist titles in the genres of historcal fiction including crime and mysteries, action and adventure, crime, mysteries, thrillers and history. In the first instance contact editorial director Amy Durant with a short description of your books and writing career and if possible a link to/list of available titles.
Website: https://saperebooks.com/
Pilot Press was started in 2017 by visual artist Richard Porter as a platform for textual and visual work by artists and writers, particularly those who identify as queer, trans, nonbinary or outcast. Pilot Press currently has an open call for responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager 1 for the fifth anthology in a series looking at art made during the AIDS crisis. Send work as doc or pages files by the closing date of 31 August.
Website: www.pilotpress.co.uk/open-call
US independent Black feminist publisher BLF Press has a call out for submissions from Black diaspora writers to its Black Joy Unbound anthology and are particularly interested in receiving submissions from Black queer writers of all gender identities and sexualities. Submissions should merge literary genre to write about the themes of joy and pleasure and affirm the interconnectedness of race, gender and sexual orientation. No erotica. Submit prose between 2,000 and 5,000 words/two poems. Accepted submissions will be paid $75. The closing date is 31 December.