Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer and trans writing today. It’s a space where LGBTQ+ writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.

Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you're working on now that's keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it.

Editorial Statement

We provide a path to representation for a broad selection of LGBTQ+ voices, centering queer and trans literary artists of color, youth, elders, and those beyond traditional LGBTQ+ cultural centers so that our readers and audiences can see their own experiences authentically represented through queer and trans literary arts.

We believe that queer and trans people must curate our own artistic discourses and we curate with a commitment to not perpetuate harm in our communities and recognize our responsibilities as editors to uplift the voices of queer and trans people while not punching down on those of us who live at the intersection of multiple oppressed identities.

We accept the following unpublished unsolicited submissions:

• 3 to 5 poems, one poem per page (max 5 pages)
• up to 7500 words of fiction or nonfiction (up to three flash fiction pieces)
• up to 20 pages of cross-genre work, text-image hybrids, or drama

We accept simultaneous submissions; however, please withdraw your piece immediately if it is accepted elsewhere (or, if you only need to withdraw part of a submission, send us a message in Submittable).

Only one submission per genre is permitted each reading period.

We do not accept previously published material.

We welcome translated work in all genres, provided rights have been secured before submission. (Both author and translator will receive an honorarium.)

If we've recently accepted your work, please wait two reading periods (1 year) to submit again.

Contributors receive two copies of the issue in which they appear and a $100 honorarium (via PayPal).