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Call for Submissions: Distanced 3.0

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Call for Submissions: Distanced 3.0

The Distanced Project hopes to capture a range of experiences and responses to the self or otherwise imposed isolation due to Covid-19. How does this isolation affect our bodies? How do the intersections of our identities and physicalities affect our access to amenities and our experiences with social distancing?

Distanced 3.0 will explore the far-reaching effects of Covid-19: from the hyper-personal to the sociopolitical, from current fears to future imaginations. Zoom out and show us the bigger picture. Or give us sneak peeks of your everyday life right now: organizing your junk drawer for the first time ever or falling apart to C movies on Netflix. Capture your zany, poignant, or heartbreaking moments. Or tell us what the future might look like.

We will be publishing short fiction, non-fiction, poetry, visual art and hybrid pieces throughout the month of August. As always, we want work that showcases intersectional experiences and identities, especially writing and art that intersects with class, race, mental health, physical well-being, and the environment.

Please submit a single piece of your work by filling out our form.

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FAQs

1. When will I get published?

We are running this project through August. We will be reading submissions regularly and publishing selected work within a week.

2. Do you accept simultaneous submissions?

Yes!

3. I want to submit poetry AND visual art. Do you accept multiple submissions?

We accept submissions in multiple formats. So you can submit one poem, one visual art and one prose piece. Please fill out one form per format.

4. I was published in Distanced or Distanced 2.0. Can I submit again?

We would like to open 3.0 to new writers and artists. If you have been published in Distanced or Distanced 2.0, please sit this one out. But you are more than welcome to submit for our HAIR issue.

5. Can I just email you my work?

We are using the form to manage our submissions effectively for a quicker turnaround. We will not be considering email submissions for this project.

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Best of the Net 2020 Nominations

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We are thrilled to announce our nominations for the Best of the Net 2020 anthology. We have been lucky to publish a lot of exemplary work this year, but these pieces really stood out to us for their talent, power, intention and control. Congratulations to these wonderful poets and writers. We wish them the best in being selected for this anthology.

Poetry:

Fiction:

Creative Nonfiction:

team announcements

Call for Editor

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Call for Editor

We are looking for a new addition to our team: someone who has editorial experience, is comfortable weighing in on submissions, and can provide constructive feedback to our contributors.

How to apply

Write to us at angstfzine@gmail.com.

  • We do not believe that you need an MA, MFA or any other degree to be a good writer and editor. So we don’t need your CV. But we would love to get to know you in the application. What themes, formats and genres do you dabble in? What excites you about writing?
  • Let us know if you have any experience working with literary magazines or with editing in general.
  • What are your feminism values and how does ang(st) fit into them? What is your vision for ang(st)?
  • Tell us why you’d be a good fit for our team.

This is a voluntary position. We will prioritize editors from LGBTQ, BIPOC, disabled, and other marginalized communities.

Applications open until 25th July, 2020.

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Call for submissions: Issue 4

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Call for submissions: Issue 4

Our next issue focuses on the theme of HAIR.

Everyone has an opinion on hair: family, lovers, partners, friends, religion, culture, society. It has been a tool of oppression, a form of control, or an impossible beauty ideal that excludes most of the population. It has also become an extension of our identities— a form of protest, of self-expression, of finding our communities.

Tell us your hair stories: the color, the texture, the choices you make, how you feel about your hair. Has it always been in control? Have others’ opinions influenced how you wear it? What does your culture say about your hair? What’s a good or bad hair day for you? What makes you feel desirable? What makes you self-conscious?

We want fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art that intersect with broader issues or specific moments. Show us your stunning up-dos, your hair revelations, your hairy leg and sweaty armpit stories. Show us your fresh-haircut confidence and your bad hair hide-under-the-covers days.

Submit a single piece of your work to angstfzine@gmail.com. Add a short bio (<50 words) with your pronouns and social media handles. Don’t forget to mention the theme “HAIR” in the subject of your email. We welcome experimental and hybrid forms. Please read our general guidelines here before submitting.

Submissions will be open until 10th September.

Issue 4 will be out on 1st October, 2020.

team announcements

Call for Community Manager

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We’re looking for someone who can

  • Focus on branding, communication and promotional strategies
  • Handle our IG and Patreon
  • Create content and graphics (sometimes)

Write to us at angstfzine@gmail.com about 

  • any previous experience
  • your feminism & vision for ang(st)
  • why you’d be a good fit for our team

This is a voluntary position. We prioritize LGBTQ+, BIPOC+, disabled, and other marginalized identities.

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Meet our Art Editor: Maria Picone

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Meet our Art Editor: Maria Picone

We’re thrilled to present Maria Picone as the newest addition to our team! She will join us in reading all submissions with a focus on visual art and hybrid pieces.

Maria (she/her) is a writer and artist from Korea by way of Massachusetts. Her writing explores identity, mental health, memory, and broader political and social issues. She’s interested in painting, hybrid work, and photography. In her spare time, she loves drinking tea, looking for classes to take, and playing with her cat, Minwu.

Find her on Twitter and her website.

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Call for submissions: Queer Loving (updated)

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Call for submissions: Queer Loving (updated)

This Pride month we want to celebrate queerness by creating something wholesome and positive— an escape from our crushing realities. We also want to highlight the beautiful parts of queer narratives that often get overshadowed. (Give us more queer stories with happy endings, amirite?) We know queerphobia exists. We know the queer experience is fraught with rejection and abuse. We don’t want it to define us.

We also support #BlackLivesMatter. People are fighting for their basic rights. People are starving, fighting, dying. Being queer does not excuse us from being complicit in these oppressive systems. There are queer victims, survivors, protesters, apologists, and perpetrators.

We have decided to go forward with our issue on Queer Loving while also elevating Black and queer voices and creating a space of love, courage and solidarity. So, we are creating a QTBIPOC issue. We especially want to publish Black queer experiences . We hope to provide a space of tenderness, healing and courage. Where we can find the strength to fight. Where we can examine our privilege and stand in solidarity.

Queer loving encompasses all forms of love: love for same or different genders, love for one or more people, sexual or kink-based bonds, platonic loves, friendships, relationships, love from supportive families or from the new families we create for ourselves, and finally, self-love. We’re looking for prose, poetry, hybrid and visual art. Share with us your objects of desire, your moments of connection, your stories of support and belonging. Tell us about the bodies you love and the bodies that love you.

How to Submit:

  • Send a single piece of your work to angstfzine@gmail.com.
  • Add a short bio (<50 words) in your cover letter with pronouns & social media handles (this is optional).
  • Mention Pride 2020 in the subject.

Submissions will be open from 1st to 25th June.

The issue will be published on 30th June, 2020.

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Call for Submissions: Pride 2020

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Call for Submissions: Pride 2020

This Pride month we are creating a special issue to celebrate pride and showcase queer people loving queer bodies. Keeping the current global situation in mind, we want to create an issue that focuses on the positive: the beauty and wholesomeness of queer love. 

Queer loving encompasses all forms of love: love for same or different genders, love for one or more people, sexual or kink-based bonds, platonic loves, friendships, relationships, love from supportive families or from the new families we create for ourselves, and finally, self-love. Share with us your objects of desire, your moments of connection, your stories of support and belonging. Tell us about the bodies you love and the bodies that love you.

Send a single piece of your work (poetry, prose, visual art, or hybrid) to angstfzine@gmail.com. Make sure to include Pride2020 in the subject.

Submissions will be open from 1st to 25th June. The issue will be published on 30th June, 2020.

team announcements

Call for Art Editor

by Aishwarya Javalgekar
Call for Art Editor

Join the ang(st) team!

We are looking for a new addition to our team: specifically someone who is well versed with one or more visual art styles. We decide on all submissions together as a team. So the art editor will weigh in on all the submissions we receive. But we’re looking for someone to take the lead on visual art and hybrid submissions.

We understand that not all artists have the desire or the privilege of formally learning their craft. So we don’t care about that at all. What we do care about is your knowledge, your own practice, and how you are as a person.

To apply, send us an email at angstfzine@gmail.com. Tell us about:

  1. your artwork and aesthetic: We want to know about what kind of art you create and enjoy! Add links and samples as required
  2. your feminism and your vision for ang(st): Feminism and intersectionality are integral to ang(st)’s identity. We want to make sure our newest member is equally passionate and committed to the cause. Tell us about your feminist politics and your experiences with marginalization (if any). How do you interpret our focus on feminist bodies?
  3. why you think you’d be a good fit for our team: We just want to be a happy family! Do you like us as people? (Please say yes!) Do you vibe with the kinds of pieces we have published so far?

This is a voluntary position since we cannot afford to pay any of our team members at this time. We will prioritize artists/editors from marginalized and underrepresented communities. 

Send in your applications by 25th May, 2020!