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General theme

UPROOTED

Guidelines

"Rough Cut Press publishes fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry. We release a monthly issue with works by emerging and established voices from within the LGBTQIA community. "

Current Theme

UPROOTED

"Rough Cut Press publishes fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry. We release a monthly issue with works by emerging and established voices from within the LGBTQIA community. "

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

within thirty days / 51 days

Acceptance Rate

15.79%

  • Payment

    Yes: $25

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

No specific limitations

Flash Fiction

Max words: 650

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

No specific limitations

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 650

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Written submissions are limited to 650 words.

Art

No specific limitations

Fiction

No specific limitations

Flash Fiction

Max words: 650

Max pieces: 1

Nonfiction

No specific limitations

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 650

Max pieces: 1

Poetry

Written submissions are limited to 650 words.

Art

No specific limitations

Statistics

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Track submission

46

Total submissions tracked

51 days

Average response time

15.79%

Average acceptance rate

8 days

Fastest response time

121 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We have a form at https://roughcutpress.com/submit/

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

LGBTQ+ creators

Formatting

Please leave your name off of the submission itself and send one piece per submission, in PDF format.

Rights for published work

By submitting your visual or written work, you confirm that you own the intellectual property rights (such as trademarks and copyright), image rights, and authorial rights necessary rights to publish the work through Rough Cut Press. Once accepted, you grant us permission to publish your submission in our digital & print magazines, website, and social media platforms. You assume all damage and compensation liabilities that might result from you submitting this work without the legal rights to publish it, and you exempt Rough Cut Press and all of our associates from any liability.

Additional info

We seek experimental work of all genres by writers and allies of the LGBTQIA community. To get a sense of what we publish please read some of our former issues. We don’t know what we like until we see it. Each month we announce a different theme, but don’t worry if the work you submit doesn’t quite fit: we often build issues around work that takes us by surprise. If your work is selected for publication you can expect to hear from us within thirty days of submission.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2018 | United States

Rough Cut Press publishes fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and poetry. We release a monthly issue with works by emerging and established voices from within the LGBTQIA community. We seek personal, lyrical, critical, and experimental work in under 650 words. We accept submissions year-round, we don’t charge a submission fee, and we offer each writer an honorarium.

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 :)

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Examples

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