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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’m glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought: “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!”

I always believed that we would have a fight back. I just knew that we would fight back. I just didn’t know it would be that night.

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

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

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

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My first camera created these teeny-tiny Polaroids; I was obsessed with it. Then, one of my best friends noticed that I was really into photography. She gave me a 35-millimeter camera. I kept it on my nightstand; it was always with me.

yanina may
Red - Liam O'Mara - Rough Cut Press

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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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Yanina May - Rough Cut Press Artist

featured artist

My first camera created these teeny-tiny Polaroids; I was obsessed with it. Then, one of my best friends noticed that I was really into photography. She gave me a 35-millimeter camera. I kept it on my nightstand; it was always with me.

yanina may

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