Submissions¶
Lilac Peril is excited to announce that we are accepting submissions for our second collection!
“…keep in steady rotation a certain recurring question: What within a community do its members not want to look at?”- Casey Plett, On Community
Trans people are constantly ordered to stop speaking – told that our world views, our politics, even our autonomy are conversationally out-of-bounds. For many of us, the only reprieve from the messaging of a cis world is finding community in each other.
Trans people accept one another. We see each other. We keep each other safe.
But is this always the case? We might pride ourselves on having survived our own internal criticisms and deciphered our complicated desires, believing this makes us more open to the needs of others. Yet in the backs (or perhaps fronts) of our minds, we know that some topics are still off limits. What things do we still not want to look at?
There are all the ways we reproduce the hurts of the world onto each other: racism and the dominating whiteness of trans spaces, misogyny, ableism, whore- and fatphobia, and near endless others. There’s kink and fetish and how we sanitize sex from ourselves. There are hot takes turned serious—Is there such a thing as a good chaser? Can T4T actually solve the problem of relating to others?
In other words, there are still taboos, even amongst ourselves.
For Lilac Peril’s Issue 01, we want to challenge one another. We want to hear about what we don’t want to hear.
Submit your fiction, poetry, essays, critiques, screen plays, or just your ramblings. Send us your visual art. We want to know what is still taboo in our communities, in our organizing, or in our bedrooms.
Give it to us. We can take it.
Guidelines¶
Send submissions to submissions@lilacperil.com. Please attach submissions rather than pasting them in the body of the email.
Writing: 2500 words or less, double spaced, submitted as a Word doc or PDF. We are happy to have works beyond this word limit, but please contact us to see what can fit.
Visual art: We are interested in any printable visual art, including, but not limited to, photography, drawings, collages, etc. However, we ask that you limit yourself to black and white works. Please submit as a PDF or common image format (jpg, png, tiff, svg).
Submit as many written or visual art pieces as you wish, but be aware that each will be considered a separate submission and might not appear together. If you have multiple works that should accompany one another, please get in touch.
Along with your submissions, please include your name as you would like for it to appear, as well as a bio. Or if you prefer anonymity, you got it. Pronouns are not required, but we are happy to include them.
We pay contributors $25 for published pieces, as well as a copy of the published issue.
All rights remain with the author or artist before and after publication. Please feel free to submit simultaneously, but let us know if your work appears elsewhere.
Submissions will be accepted between July 1st and September 1st.
