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Rough Cut Press

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WHO WE ARE

Rough Cut Press publishes fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry. We release a monthly issue with works by emerging and established voices from within the LGBTQIA community.

We seek personal, lyrical, critical, and experimental work in under 650 words. We accept submissions year-round, we don’t charge a submission fee, and we offer each writer an honorarium.

WHO WE ARE

Rough Cut Press publishes fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry. We release a monthly issue with works by emerging and established voices from within the LGBTQIA community.

We seek personal, lyrical, critical, and experimental work in under 650 words. We accept submissions year-round, we don’t charge a submission fee, and we offer each writer an honorarium.

I think outrage has some kind of implicit hope in it: you’re outraged because you think something can change.

Silas House
What I hope to be is a bookmark for unconditional love and acceptance until people realize that unconditional love is actually within them and has been the whole time. I’m always pointing people toward the realization that whatever they see in me is because they have it already.
Jeffrey Marsh
This is how the gender binary works: when you erase anyone who lives beyond gender norms, then you can pretend that man and woman are the only ways to be. You can pretend that gender norms are natural and innate, not political and enforced.
ALOK
Just as the past is different from now, transpositionally, the future can be different from now. Ultimately, history bears witness to the inescapability of difference and the inevitability of change.
Susan Stryker
Every one of us is an utterly unique being. Even if reincarnation is true, the fact is that I will only be this person in this time, in this place, once, in an infinite expanse of space and time, which is pretty astonishing?
Jen Richards
Not only do I think justice is possible —I think redemption is possible. I think we are put here for a purpose. Every one of us is an utterly unique being. Even if reincarnation is true, the fact is that I will only be this person in this time, in this place, once, in an infinite expanse of space and time, which is pretty astonishing.
Jen Richards

Nuance, I’d say, means redefining the smallest of details, parts that elude our daily scrutiny of this world. It means spotting a gash from the seemingly obscure, making out a white stain from the blinding dark. Nuance tilts towards shapeshift. The slight difference between our lifestyles & all other entities.

Nnadi Samuel

Just as the past is different from now, transpositionally, the future can be different from now. Ultimately, history bears witness to the inescapability of difference and the inevitability of change.

Susan Stryker

The antidote to rage is nuance.

Adam Golub

Not only do I think justice is possible—I think redemption is possible. I think we are put here for a purpose. Every one of us is an utterly unique being. Even if reincarnation is true, the fact is that I will only be this person in this time, in this place, once, in an infinite expanse of space and time, which is pretty astonishing.

Jen Richards

what we look for

poetry, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, micro-essays, photography, and visual artwork

artists TALK

Here we have conversations with creatives whose work has a lasting impact on how we think about craft, and how we approach the world at large.

Red - Liam O'Mara - Rough Cut Press

what we look for

poetry, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, micro-essays, photography, and visual artwork

artists TALK

Here we have conversations with creatives whose work has a lasting impact on how we think about craft, and how we approach the world at large.

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