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Issue 1: Secrets

Issue 2: Survival

Issue 3: Spirit

Issue 4: New Old Lovers

Issue 5: Energy

Issue 6: Psychosis

Issue 7: Discipline

Issue 8: Duende

Issue 9: Machine

Issue 10: Love

Issue 11: WELL THAT ESCALATED

Issue 12: touch me STAY AWAY

Issue 13: content warning: WRATH

WHO WE ARE

Rough Cut Press publishes visual art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry up to 650 words. We release a monthly issue and seek emerging and established voices from within the international LGBTQIA community.

Specifically, we seek personal, political, precise, raw, lyrical, critical, and experimental work; the stuff only you can write. Our readers are interested in interrogating systematic inequality, sex, sexuality, gender, phobias, what it means to be an activist, and what it means to create magic.

We’re here to build a platform for a multiplicity of voices to converge, and to compensate all contributing artists from day one.

We accept submissions year-round. We don’t charge a submission fee.

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Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this, you know that, yes, it’s true, I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

Frida Kahlo

I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here.”

Sylvia Rivera

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.

Alan W. Watts

seeking artists/activists

Are you an artist? Activist? Both? We want to read, see, hear, and experience your work. Drop us a line.

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artists TALK

Every month we interview influential artists and activists who are engaged in powerful creative and political work.

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featured artist

I was four or five the first time I danced. My hair was cut short and I was wearing stockings and a pink silk dress with flowers on it. I was in New Mexico.

anabel roca
Red - Liam O'Mara - Rough Cut Press

seeking artists/activists

Are you an artist? An activist? Both? We want to read, see, hear, and experience your work. Drop us a line.

Get in Touch
Diannely - ArtistsTALK - Rough Cut Press

artists TALK

Every month we interview influential artists and activists who are engaged in powerful creative and political work.

Read the Interviews

featured artist

I was four or five the first time I danced. My hair was cut short and I was wearing stockings and a pink silk dress with flowers on it. I was in New Mexico.

anabel roca

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