Call for Submission

Send us your playful odes to community and interdependence, and essays (or manifestos!) written out of, or into, disabled joy.

We seek work of all genres by writers from the LGBTQIA community. We do not define or gatekeep what it means to be a queer writer: if you think your work belongs here, then it belongs here.

Dog Stories We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting stories for our dog topic that is to be released in 2025. Because of the popularity of this topic, we do a new dog book approximately every eighteen months so here is another chance for you to share a story or two about […]

Do you have a character who doesn’t believe in nuance? Have all the colors been arrested and imprisoned? Make up a story, apply your interpretation, and send it in.

In this issue, we delve into the lines that shape and limit the human experience, challenging and redefining them through the lens of prose and verse.

You're already living in the future, if you see it from your perspective of ten or twenty years ago. What does the future mean to you?

Lots of things you can break … You want to make it painful, have a go. You want to make it funny and slam the crockery, sure, go ahead.

This fall season, Boudin is looking for your tastiest CNF, poetry, and hybrid work inspired by your favorite tales of friends, family, food, and festivities.

We are here anticipating your revelations of the universe. How is it speaking to you? Scaring you? Lend us your divining wisdom.

You are invited to submit your work in the theme HINTERLAND. We are especially happy to receive writing about loss, love, sex, nature and the liminal but with the singular imagery that the winged moon seeks to publish.

We’re looking for stories that explore embodiment in all its complexity.

What does it mean to want and need? Give us conflict and challenge; joy and celebration; and the spark of repair.

Show us your quagmires, confusions, and fated connections. Weave us tangled webs and puzzling paradoxes. Tie your characters into knots. We are here for it. 

This is the season when those Christmas/New Year letters start showing up. We’re sure you’ve had to read lots of bad ones.

Kindness comes in all shapes and sizes; show what happens when characters express kindness. 

Which season will you choose: Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter? We would love to see your poetry that captures your chosen season. This zine will be split into 4, with each chapter featuring a different season.

An aperture can be a point of connection, or control. It can be an opening, a gap, a portal, or chasm. An aperture can be a wound. A point of entry, or of no return.

While the theme and title of this issue is ‘Arc’ we encourage you to interpret it creatively.

Stories can be serious or humorous, or both. We can't wait to read all the heartwarming, inspirational, and hysterical stories you have about your cats.

Dream: A succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep? A reverie? A wild or vain fancy?