Wet: Book Launch
(plus your last chance to submit to our open call Sucking Face)
We are incredibly excited to be announcing our new book: Wet, an anthology of queer and trans writing about water. Our contributors swim pools, lakes and oceans, visit islands, coasts and hottubs. The water they describe is soft and hard, it erodes old rocks and old gender, it is a place to fall in wet love, it hides witches.
Contributors: Arlo Kean | Clara Davis | Eliot Walloschek | Finn Brown | Isabella Redmayne | Lizzie Rose | Lucie Arnoux | So Mayer | Tadhg Haran | Tallulah Griffith
And you’re invited to our launch event at The Castle Cinema in Homerton, London on the 28th May. You’ll be able to be the first to pick up a copy of the new book, and we will be hearing from our contributors in a series of readings over the course of the evening. Plus you’ll be able to enjoy a mini exhibition of artwork by Lucie Arnoux which is featured in the book.
Last chance: Open Call - Sucking Face
Don’t miss your last chance to submit to ‘Sucking Face’, an anthology of queer and trans kisses and an accompanying exhibition.
Tell us your stories of queer and trans kisses, long and soft, remembered and forgotten. The ones that nearly happened, the ones that were only dreamt about it, the ones that changed everything.
Tell us with words, through poetry, fiction, non-fiction and hybrid works. Tell us visually, with art, painting, photography, sculpture.
Read our full submission guidelines on our website, and submit via the designated form by 31st March.
Save the Date: t’ARTopia - 14th May
Save the date for our next t’ARTopia, a queer-curated night of drag, comedy, poetry, cabaret and music from some of our most delicious t’ARTs. We’ll be releasing tickets soon so watch this space!
Creative Spotlight
In every newsletter we spotlight one of our recently published works. Today we are spotlighting ‘I am all; them and the monsters’ by Karla Diaz.
“I am the child who wants to be a boy, the teen who drew and painted feminine silhouettes, the adult who often wakes up after kissing a woman in a dream.
I am the woman that loved and falls in love with insolent men. In my dreams, I am a man too.”
Publication Spotlight
And last but not least, in each newsletter we remind you of one of our lovely publications for sale on our website.
For our ninth printed edition of t’ART Magazine we asked our contributors to tell us stories of breaking, of mending. They let us into narratives that sit across fault lines, characters who fragment, endings that mend. They sent us art in shards, art that has changed direction, reshaped itself after trauma, sewn itself new. They sent us poetry and prose that fractures on the line, pulls itself to pieces, pauses in expected places. We hope you enjoy the work you find between these pages.