It’s more important than ever to highlight trans and nonbinary art, to uplift trans joy, and to share stories of healing and connection. Help us share hope through art and writing! We invite you to contribute to the new Trans Survivors digital zine.
Throughout the year, we’ll invite submissions on specific themes (see below). These can be interpreted loosely. We welcome your full range of emotions and expressions. We encourage content focused on race and anti-racism; bodies and disabilities; class, housing, survival realities; and content that focuses or encompasses our complex, intersectional lives.
For a better idea of the kind of work we publish, check out the first two issues of the Trans Survivors Zine.
Submissions are currently OPEN and will close on September 8th. Submit your work here.
Submission windows:
- IPV/DV/Interpersonal harm: August 18th – September 8th
- Death/grief: September 22nd – October 13th
Current issue: Relationships
Relationships take many shapes across our lifetimes. Relationships with parents, friends, partners, acquaintances, all leave an impact on us. This next issue of the Trans Survivors Zine focuses on the complexity of those relationships: both those that help us to grow, and those that cause harm. We welcome submissions that address all forms of relationships, including experiences of domestic or intimate partner violence, and the ways that trauma impacts our connections with others.
Submission guidelines:
We welcome a variety of artforms, including visual art, poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction (fiction/nonfiction under 1000 words).
You may submit multiple poems or fiction/nonfiction under 1000 words, but please include them in the same document (Word document or PDF preferred).
Simultaneous submissions are welcome (meaning you can submit to the Trans Survivors zine while having a piece also considered by another publisher). Please let us know right away if your work is accepted elsewhere!
We welcome your expressions of rage and grief, humor and silliness, beauty and curiosity. We reserve the right to refuse submissions that include racism, anti-trans attitudes, or other oppressive language. We are accepting original art/writing (not generated by AI).
If your work has been published in the Trans Survivors Zine before, you are welcome to submit again, but we will prioritize artists/writers we have not published in the most recent issue. If your work has been held for consideration from a previous issue, you are welcome to make additional submissions.
Contributors will receive $25 if their art or writing is accepted. We aim to include as many voices and experiences as possible.
FORGE requests non-exclusive rights to publish your work in the Trans Survivors zine and promote it on our social media. Your work still belongs to you. If you have any questions about submissions, please reach out to caleb@forge-forward.org.