- ISSUE 10.2 LAUNCH & SALE -

Foglifter is celebrating 10 years of groundbreaking queer and trans writing at Litquake and we hope to see you there!!

10.2 Issue Launch will be held at The Stud (1123 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103) on Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 7pm - 9pm, doors open at 6pm!

Get your free ticket here; $10 - $15 suggested donation.

In honor of Foglifter’s 10th anniversary, hear new voices from the most recent issue as well as voices from the last decade, including Wayne Bund, Janine Mogannam, Crystal Odelle, Rae Gouirand, Grayson Thompson, and more!

- start a riot! 2025/2026 -

In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities’ revolutionary history, Foglifter Press and Still Here San Francisco joined forces to create a poetry chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color. Each year, one chapbook author is awarded publication, a $3,000 prize, and $1,000 to support their book tour/promotion.

Judges:

• Grayson Thompson, author of 2024 Start A Riot! winning chapbook Sand Bodied Florida Boy

• Dani Putney

• Zara Jamshed

Eligibility:

• Submitter is a QTBIPOC+ literary artist

• AND is a current resident of the larger San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Napa, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Solano, Marin, San Mateo, Sonoma counties)

• AND does not have a previous full-length poetry book publication

Manuscript Details:

• Poetry (Literally anything that falls under the verse genre—prose poetry, hybrid, etc. We want all your wild experiments!)

• 25 pages max; 15 pages minimum

• Remove all identifying information, including acknowledgments. There should be one title page with the name of the chapbook only.

• Microsoft Word doc preferred; PDF also accepted

Important Dates:

• Submissions: September 1 to December 1, 2025

• Results Announced: January 2026

• Chapbook Release: June (Pride Month) 2026

See photos from Sand Bodied Florida Boy launch here

Order Sand Bodied Florida Boy Now

- Foglifter Online exclusive submissions open aug 15 - oct 15 -

As Foglifter revitalizes our website and digital production, we are interested in creating and holding space for works that may not fit within the constraints of our print edition. We are now accepting submissions for our new  Online Exclusive Issue dedicated to showcasing queer voices across a wide spectrum of creative forms. 

As always, we are seeking art that aligns with our mission of promoting queer, transgressive, and original work. The themes will change from issue to issue. For 1.1, our theme is Body Politics. Bodies are sites of power, protest, pleasure, oppression, transformation, and resistance. They are legislated, labeled, liberated, and loved. In a world where bodies are constantly scrutinized, marginalized, and controlled—especially queer, trans, fat, disabled, racialized, and reproductive bodies—we want to create a space for work that responds, reclaims, and reimagines.

Please submit work that engages with themes that may include gender expression and transition, reproductive justice, disability and chronic illness, surveillance and censorship, body modification culture, fat liberation and anti-ableism, queer desire and sexuality, the racialized body, and performance and protest. We invite works that grapple with the political, personal, and cultural dimensions of the queer body. 

Pieces must be original, unpublished work in genres including, but not limited to: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, comics, visual art, scripts, and multimedia (video, audio, music, interactive pieces, experimental work, etc.) that align with the current issue’s theme.

This online exclusive issue will be published as a winter issue on our website. We’re especially interested in pieces that experiment with form, push boundaries, and reflect the complexity, joy, rage, beauty, and multiplicity of the queer experience.

Why Online Exclusive?

Our print publication has limits—page counts, dimensions, ink. This digital issue is a space without borders. We want to uplift work that can’t—or won’t—fit in print: multimedia projects, audio pieces, visual art, and performance pieces  that demand to be seen and heard in digital space.

General Submission Guidelines:

• We accept only first rights to publication.

• We do accept simultaneous submissions, however please withdraw pieces that have been accepted elsewhere.

• Please include a short bio, description of your work, any past publications, and applicable trigger warnings in your cover letter.

• Visual and [multi]media work must be web-viewable—please include links or uploads through Submittable and include content warnings if applicable

Genre Specific Guidelines

• Please submit up to 5 pieces

• For video and audio submissions, please limit to 5 minutes

• We accept art created via all mediums (except AI -- no AI art submissions). This includes, but is not limited to, photography, painting, digital, ink, pencil, collage, etc.

• Acceptable file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .png, .svg, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .odt, .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .mp4, .mov, .avi, .mpg, .3gp, .wmv

• All applicable artworks submitted will be considered for cover art for the online exclusive issue

• We love experimental work, feel free to submit hybrid forms that blend genres

• For grant purposes, we cannot consider submissions that do not include a completed demographic survey with their submission