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Issue 20: the past is as fluid as the future
Issue 19: to remember is to reconstruct
Issue 18: The Antidote to Rage is Nuance
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RECENT ISSUES

Issue 20: the past is as fluid as the future

Issue 19: to remember is to reconstruct

Issue 18: The Antidote to Rage is Nuance

Issue 17: You Never Know Who’s Watching

Issue 16: MORE

Issue 15: resistance

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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’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

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 started writing when I was young, maybe around 9. I was curious and wanted to be self-sufficient; writing became a way for me to learn about the world through my own devices—in a sense.

Cass Lintz
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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

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 started writing when I was young, maybe around 9. I was curious and wanted to be self-sufficient; writing became a way for me to learn about the world through my own devices—in a sense.

Cass Lintz

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