If you submitted to the Queer Poetry Anthology, there have been some delays in the review process. You will receive notification on whether your submissions were accepted by the end of May. The queeranth@humanities.org email is currently down, so reach out to linnea.ingalls@arts.wa.gov if you have any questions.
As part of my term as the Washington State Poet Laureate, I’m putting together an anthology of poems from queer writers of all stripes across the state. I want to hear from people trying out poetry for the first time, as well as regular writers and widely published poets. I want to include work by folks across spectrums of sexual orientation, gender, and sexuality in general (ace/aro family, I’m looking at you—send me work!), and from across the full breadth of our state.
Poems can be on any topic. This anthology takes the stance that all art made by queer artists is queer art, whether it draws explicit attention to an identity or not. Send me your love poems, the poem you wrote on the bus or in the park, poems where you wrestle with yourself, poems where you love existing, poems that take a metaphor and run with it, tribute poems, grief poems, ecstatic poems, sleepy poems, poems that barely know what they are or what they’re becoming, I want it all. Traditional and experimental work are both welcomed.
The final anthology will be published online and made available as a free resource. I’ll organize poems in a tagged and searchable format (like a database), making sure the tags are correct to the poem and its author. There is no payment available but chosen writers will appear in a publicized, widely available anthology and may get opportunities for readings and events following the anthology’s launch.
I hope to hear from you soon! And please pass this call around!
Best,
Arianne True
On Monday, November 13, 2023, Arianne True led a 75-minute queer writing workshop. Watch the recording below. The workshop handout on Hermit Crab Forms is available at this link.
You can expect to be notified about the status of your submission(s) 2-3 months after the deadline has passed.
Anyone who identifies anywhere under the queer umbrella and lives in Washington state or adjacent tribal lands is eligible and invited to submit work. This call seeks work from both adult and youth writers.
Submissions themselves are not anonymous, but if chosen for publication you can be anonymous in the final published anthology.
To submit, send the following to queeranth@humanities.org
I can only accept submissions at the email listed above. It is free to submit.
I can accept and publish poems as text, video, or audio recordings. You may submit a mix of text and audio or video submissions, but the total number of poems across all formats cannot exceed three.
Britt Madsen, Washington Poet Laureate Program Specialist, britt.madsen@arts.wa.gov
