All Accounts and Mixture

A Celebration of LGBTQ Writers & Artists

Taken from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, and the poem “Rooms,” our series title appears in the line: “Cadences, real cadences, real cadences and a quiet color. Careful and curved, cake and sober, all accounts and mixture, a guess at anything is righteous, should there be a call there would be a voice.”

UPDATE: Sadly, we didn’t have the staffing to run this contest in 2023, but we’re hoping to start it up again in 2024. If you submitted to this contest in 2022, please reach out at editor.cutbank@gmail.com for a no-fee waiver to any general submission of your choice. We apologize for this and hope to bring All Accounts & Mixture back soon!

Poetry, prose, visual art, reviews and interviews will all be considered, so get your work ready. We can't wait to see what you have for us.

Submission Guidelines:

We welcome all breeds of creative hybrid and collaboration. For this series, we seek work from writers who self-identify as “queer,” while acknowledging that this designation is subjective and highly personal. We believe the term “queer” connotes flexibility--we will not police your identity.

That said, our goal is to provide a forum for writers whose voices might be mis- or underrepresented by the literary mainstream, and we ask that contributors respectfully acknowledge this objective. Submitted content need not be LGBTQ-specific. Work must be previously unpublished. We will accept simultaneous submissions with timely notification. Allies are encouraged to contribute reviews of poetry and prose by queer authors from books contemporary to historic. We are also seeking provocative interviews with queer writers and artists.

Visit our Submittable page to send us your work!

Poetry:

Please submit up to 7 poems.

Prose:

Please submit up to 5,000 words of prose, fiction, or creative nonfiction.

Visual Art:

Please submit up to 10 pieces of visual art. For 3D pieces, you may submit multiple images to show rotational perspective.  Submit your work as JPEG or TIFF files with at least 300 dpi. Include name, year, and medium and a short artist bio. Artist statements are appreciated but not required. Feel free to include a link to your online portfolio if you would like us to consider other artworks.