Gay flash fiction

Gay Apparel: A Queer Holiday Flash Fiction Anthology.

A queer holiday anthology project collecting stories from all over the world. Includes contemporary, historical romance, space epic, weird western, post-apocalypse, gay, lesbian, trans, ace, neurodivergent, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, New Years, and some new holidays, too.

Table of Contents:

Mistlebro, Amy Michelle

O Evening Divine, Anna Kensing

How Very Un-Persephone, Rachel Sharp

Free Wheat, Ether Nepenthes

Invite A Creature, Minerva Cerridwen

Timing, Adam P. Knave

Long Night, Kari Dru

Stealth Gifts, Mara Lynn Johnstone

(If You Want It), H.E. Grahame

The Rigs of the Time, Jeannelle M. Ferreira

A Solstice Date On Chanukah, Xan West

Legible Holiday Card, Jaz Twersky

Another Unnecessary Reimagining of A Christmas Carol, Jennifer Lee Rossman

Sunbound, Ava Kelly

Bakhor’s Good Day, Ashe Armstrong

Festive Flannel, Zoe Brook

Solstice, L.S. Reinholt

By the Chimney With Care, Rose Sinclair

Holly and Ivy, Claire Monserrat Jackson

Good Harvest, Iris Sword

As the Shadow Approaches, Nicole Field

Hoodie for

Coming Home to Myself by Bryan Okwesili

Entering the world of Bryan Okwesili’s flash piece, “Coming Home to Myself,” the reader witnesses the narrator as he struggles to coax a sock onto a stiff foot. Thus we are immediately drawn into the inner thoughts of a mortician, lost in reverie as he attends to the routine tasks of his profession. The reader follows the narrator’s stream of consciousness as his thoughts flow from musings about the body he is dressing to his own memories and finally his conflicted feelings about his identity as a gay man who has experienced rejection and dismissal at the hands of his family and friends. The portrait that emerges is a poignant and wistful mixture of dream and regret, as adv as righteous anger toward those who believed “that a man can understand to love himself, even if it means unloving a part of himself first.” The reader roots for this narrator to feel whole, but Okwesili resists an easy or tidy conclusion. The choice to set the piece in the morgue reflects the subtext that to “unlove oneself” is akin to death, and the reader is left with th

LGBTQ Flash Fiction Challenge

The LGBTQ Fiction Project on Crossin(G)enres is branching out!

Ikedi Oghenetega

inspired us all today as we sat around our Slack Channel clubhouse eating caviar and swilling champagne.

Picture this. I was popping a strawberry into my mouth while

Gloria Bates

read some Judith Butler out loud and

Fred Shirley

turned cartwheels in a corner.

Terijo

was mixing up a coffee cake, insisting on replacing the water in the recipe with our Moet Brut. She’s from Modern York, what can you do? Ikedi distracted her by asking for some help with a writing prompt for another Medium pub. Teri didn’t view him sneak a finger into the bowl while she took a red pen to his manuscript.

BFoundAPen

spotted him, though. He slapped Ikedi’s hand away from the mixing bowl and said, “Hey! Why don’t WE have writing challenges? All the stylish kids are doing it!”

And boom! The birth of an idea.

So here goes. Today is Sunday. I’m challenging all the writers in our group — and that includes

Gwen Saoirse

,

Zayn Singh

,

Ainsley L

,

Kathy Lee Tolleth

,

Amanda Roman

,

Brian P

Queer literary magazines

June is Pride month, so we thought we&#;d focus this month&#;s list on queer literary magazines and journals. Although all the publications we recommend on our site welcome LGBTQ+ writers, in this list we wanted to highlight the pick few specifically dedicated to LGBTQ+ writers and readers. If that&#;s not you, feel free to verb out our other lists.

Most of the publications on this month&#;s list are open only to writers who identify as LGBTQ+, including nonbinary/genderqueer. A several also accept writing from allies that feature LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Unless otherwise noted they undertake not charge submissions fees and do accept simultaneous submissions.

For more resources, test out Lambda Literary. They regularly post calls for submissions, residencies, and other opportunities for LGBTQ+ writers.

 

Note: We are a creative writing school and compile these lists for the boon of our students. We’re happy to answer questions about our courses but please don’t send us your publishing queries or submissions :). Instead, click on the green