"Ouch! Collective is a community of queer and nonbinary creatives holding space to resist hierarchy in the art community and uplift traditionally erased voices. We believe queer is the future and we’re ready to shout that into the void. "
Introduction
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
21 days
Average acceptance rate
50%
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
Simultaneous submissions
Yes
Previously published
No
Payment
No
Fee
No
Expedited response
No
Available in print
Yes
Provide contributor copies
No
Examples online
Yes
Active on social media
Yes
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Important stuff
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Types of Submissions Accepted
Hybrid
Max pieces: 3
Poetry
Max pieces: 3
Nonfiction
Max words: 3500
Max pieces: 3
Don’t send us written work exceeding 3,500 words (1500 or less is even better).
Fiction
Max pieces: 3
Don’t send us written work exceeding 3,500 words (1500 or less is even better).
all
Photography
Max pieces: 3
Art
Max pieces: 3
Anything
We are open to all styles and forms, but we especially love non-traditional structure and art that isn’t afraid to get weird.
Magazine
Founded in 2022 | United States
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Alex Wu
Editor-in-Chief
Josephine Raye Kelly
Editor
Abigail Sotelo
Editor
James Ochs
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
4
Average acceptance rate
50%
Average response time
21 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
21/22 days
Fastest response time
18 days
Slowest response time
24 days