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PFN – Snowflake Magazine Seeking Submission for the Sapphic/Achillian Issue

August 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Sapphic/Achillian Issue

Snowflake magazine is looking for submissions of poetry, essays and flash fiction from self-identifying queer creators. Being queer already often sits outside the norm, so we encourage your pieces to do the same – really think outside the box!

For the safety of our editors, submissions without detailed trigger warnings will be rejected outright.

The submission itself should either be made by or involve an artist who identifies as LGBTQ+ (or both!).

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Often it is easy to assume that the majority of the LGBTQ+ community is mostly just the Ls and Gs, but that isn’t the case, and is not the primary focus of this issue. 

Sapphic, and its MLM equivalent Achillian, seeks to understand and explore the idea of same-sex/gender relationships among cis and trans people. We want to hear from the gay transmascs or the cishet couple that became a lesbian relationship. We want to hear from the polyamorous bisexual with a same-sex partner, or non-binary people vibing hard together in their puddle of genderfluid. We want to hear from the girls, the guuurls, the butches, the fags, femmes, twinks, DINKs, dykes and bears. The aros, aces and the greys.

Whatever your gender identity or sexual preferences, put the ‘same’ in same sex/gender and show us in writing and poetry how you homo your sexuality.

  • Have you read the Illiad and stories of Achilles? What are your thoughts on the different historic interpretations of Achilles and Patroclus’ relationship? 

  • How do you feel about the famous fragments of Sappho’s writing “someone will remember us I say even in another time”?

  • What is your first experience of finding someone the same sex or gender as you attractive?

  • What are some quintessential examples of gay/lesbian culture? Including specifically gay transmasc or lesbian transfemme culture?

  • Do you identify as ‘T4T’? Why do you think many transpeople do?

  • Have you ever been in an opposite gender relationship, and how did it compare to a same gender one?

  • What stereotypes of queer culture do you personally identify with or find hilarious? i.e Transfemme tech geeks, transmascs with pet rats and septum rings, bisexuals with cuffed jeans and rolled up sleeves, lesbians moving in together after a week of dating and adopting 100 rescue dogs etc

  • Have you ever been in love with your best friend and realized you were gay/lesbian because of it?

  • What movie or fictional character was your “queer awakening”?

  • What makes a man/woman/person beautiful to you?

  • What does gay/lesbian domesticity look like to you?

  • How does it feel as someone who is outside the gender binary to have a self described gay/lesbian person fall for/ be attracted to you?

  • Flagging: what rituals, secret languages and social queues have we evolved over the years to flirt and signal to each other discreetly.

  • “When I’m with a woman it’s lesbian, when I’m with a man it’s gay” how does this description of non-binary attraction feel to you? Does it resonate with your own experiences?

  • What examples of gay and lesbian solidarity do you love throughout history? Eg “cocksuckers for muffdivers”, LGSM, and lesbians caring for aids victims.

  • How does it feel to grow up having to “translate ” the romances we see in popular media to suit us.

  • The Bechdel-Wallace test was originally a comic about being able to imagine female characters as lesbians. Why has this meaning often been overlooked? How does this change your views on it if you didn’t know this before? Do you have a personal equivalent for creating your own queer headcanons?

  • Describe your perfect day with your significant other.

  • Have you ever had a waiter choose which of you to assign as “the man” in the relationship by giving them the bill when out on a date? How did it feel?

  • What historical examples do you know of gay and lesbian couples teaming up for security and fake heterosexuality, beards and frocks?

  • What are your thoughts or experiences of gay and lesbian couples teaming up for sperm donations/ surrogacy?

  • As a trans person do you feel welcome in gendered gay/lesbian spaces such as bars, saunas, support and social groups? What are your experiences of this?

  • The experience of a “straight” couple having to redefine their relationship with their own sexuality when one transitions is not so rare. Have you experienced this?

Details

Date:
August 1, 2024
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Website:
https://www.snowflakeculture.com/submit

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Snowflake Magazine

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