💥 ISSUE 45 is here | twenty twenty something by Featured Writer Eloghosa Osunde | 🌈 Summer Call for Submissions
the drug kept riding my / head until I slid past sane/ into the room out back with the shivery-silver hue/ we blackdanced there until I felt the heartbeat thrash onto my tongue...
twenty twenty something by Featured Writer Eloghosa Osunde
the drug kept riding my
head until I slid past sane
into the room out back with the shivery-silver hue
we blackdanced there until I felt the heartbeat thrash onto my tongue
another pill and some liquefied
shimmering later
my god,
her thighs turned hunter hills
want restless in my gums
i couldn’t decide where next to mottle…
Read twenty twenty something.
Eloghosa Osunde is an artist whose work you either have heard of or soon will.
Issue 45 Highlights
Issue 45: twenty twenty something by Featured Writer Eloghosa Osunde
Issue 45: Mal du Siècle by Raja’a Khalid | Artwork by Kate Molloy
Issue 45: The World Below the Brine by Featured Artist Neha Misra
Issue 45: Alert Circles by Ella deCastro Baron | Artwork by Vex Kaztro
Issue 45: Through the Looking Glass by Isra Hassan | Artwork by fanjoy labrenz
Issue 45: Once a Therapist by Christina Berke | Artwork by April Dauscha
Artists and Writers
In case you missed it….
This summer, we’re opening the doors to a seasonal series—three Summer Special Editions, each one shaped around a single word. This is an invitation to send us work that shimmers, lingers, glows. Art that refuses to explain itself too quickly.
Tell your friends! We’re calling on writers, artists, poets, and genre-defiers to submit work that speaks to:
🌈 JUNE — PRIDE
Queer joy. Chosen family. Hidden histories. The shimmer of becoming and quiet revolutions. We’re drawn to what pulses beneath the surface of celebration. The stories we tell and the ones we live.
🔥 JULY — HEAT
Swelter, sizzle, burn. We looking for fever-dreamed, sweat-soaked, summer-scorched work that simmers and ignites. Literal heat. Emotional heat. Climate heat. Erotic heat. Longing, pressure, combustion. Bring us the burn.
⚡ AUGUST — FLASH
Micro. Sudden. Sharp. Send us your shortest work—fiction, micro-essays, poetry, fragments, dispatches. We’re talking itty-bitty, under 500 words. We’re listening for the echo.
How it works:
Submissions open today and close on August 1. To be considered for the PRIDE Issue, please send your work no later than June 10. In your note, please mention the name of the issue the work is intended for (Pride, Heat, Flash).
Submit up to 3 pieces per theme.
Previously unpublished work only, please. Simultaneous submissions are fine—just keep us in the loop.
We welcome emerging and established voices—poetry, short prose (maximum 2K), hybrid forms, visual art, and unclassifiable experiments.
Surprise us. Seduce us. Leave something behind.
Can’t wait to see what you’ve got on the burner.
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With galactic gratitude,
Leigh Hopkins
and the Corporeal/KHÔRA squad