The Bitchin' Kitsch

Open now for fiction and poetry.

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The B’K Magazine is a quarterly art and literature magazine open to all creators, prioritizing and paying traditionally marginalized writers and artists.

Response time info: typically within two weeks

Read the full guidelines at talbot-heindl.com↗

Submission calls

fictionEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 15Pays: $10 for unpublished written works, paid through PayPal or Venmo to racially and ethnically marginalized and gender-variant submitters.

Open to: Submitters must be aged 16 or older; own-voices requirements apply when writing about marginalized identities.

Accepts written submissions in English, including prose under 2,000 words; submissions are due by the 15th of the month before January, April, July, and October issues, or when an issue fills. Simultaneous and previously published work are accepted.

poetryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 15Pays: $10 for unpublished written works, paid through PayPal or Venmo to racially and ethnically marginalized and gender-variant submitters.

Open to: Submitters must be aged 16 or older; own-voices requirements apply when writing about marginalized identities.

Accepts poetry submissions of up to five pages in English; submissions are due by the 15th of the month before January, April, July, and October issues, or when an issue fills. Simultaneous and previously published work are accepted.

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