Foglifter

Submitting your work

Writers should familiarize themselves with Foglifter's aesthetic, which often blends lyrical experimentation with urgent political and personal themes. For the Start A Riot! Poetry Chapbook Prize, submit a cohesive manuscript that demonstrates a distinctive voice and a compelling vision. Carefully review guidelines for length, formatting, and deadlines. Given the press's mission, work that engages with queer and trans experiences is particularly encouraged, but all submissions should exhibit high literary quality and originality.

Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful queer work, in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you’re working on now that’s keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it.