You asked, we listened: QT’s Dyke issue is back!
For the final installment of this trilogy, we are soliciting creative works and visual media that explore what it means to be Dyke in its rawest form. Take us back in time to what you scribbled in your notebook, or the words you carved onto the wood of your elementary school desk - the ones that felt too transgressive to say aloud. We want to know: when did the possibility of living against the grain snag your attention? Was it when you shrugged on a padded suit jacket for the very first time, or the moment you clipped a carabiner to the loop of your jeans? Was it something you saw in a tattered old magazine, or a person you glimpsed from across the street? Show us a finished(ish) tapestry, show us the loose threads, and show us the past, present, and future that Dyke weaves.
At its core, this issue is interested in memory, preservation, and discovery. Each page will serve as an archive – a living link between our queer histories and our queer futures. Together, let's carve out Dyke's legacy.
Submissions can be emailed to submissions@qtmag.ca with the subject line “Dyke III - QT Submission - Your Name.”
Submission Guidelines
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We accept poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, personal essays, reflections, memoirs, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, photographs, collages, and other visual media.
Poetry: max 500 words.
Prose: max 2000 words.
Visual: max 5 images.
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Here, queer literature is not limited to explicitly queer content, but rather works created by LGBTQ2SIA+ people. Individuals from underrepresented communities, especially women, trans people, and BIPOC artists and writers are encouraged to self-identify in their submission email.
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Creators based in, or content featuring Toronto will be given extra consideration, but QT welcomes all pieces and artists with a connection to Canada.
A Note on Content
Spaces for queer expression often serve a double function for healing. With this in mind, QT operates on the ethos that none of our material features superfluous overtly traumatic material. For instance, please do not submit content that features sexual/any violence against women as a stand-in plot point to push forward a man’s story, without regard for how it affects her narrative.
No dick pics. As a team of volunteers we are tired of receiving unsolicited close ups of people's varying genitalia. If it's a tasteful painting or rendering, maybe. But no more photos.
Important Deadlines
The submissions period for Issue No. 22 will close August 16th at 11:59PM.
Standout issue submissions that don’t quite fit the issue, may be offered a place in the Gallery.
How to Submit
Include the following in your email:
- Name you would like associated with the work
- Short bio (max. 50 words)
- Title
- Word count
- Medium the work best falls under - ie. poem, fiction, creative nonfiction, book review, personal essays, reflection, memoir, photography, painting etc. For pieces that have physical dimensions please include them.
You may also submit a photo of yourself to be featured with your work. Attach your work to the email directly, or include a shareable link.
Submissions must be sent to: submissions@qtmag.ca
Featured artists and authors will receive an honorarium of $50 CAD flat rate.
All submissions are assumed authorized for posting on QT’s Instagram Account, unless specified otherwise by the original author.
QT will keep works available on the website/Instagram after the initial publication, until requested otherwise by the original author.
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