We know that pleasure is an act of resistance to colonialism and systematic oppression, so tell us, what sends a shock of pleasure through your body? Who or what makes your toes curl in excitement or surrender? Is there a difference between surrendering and pleasure?Ĭrack open your heart, nightstand, and look underneath your bed– what stories, poems, hybrid, visual, and media work lies there throbbing waiting to explode with pleasure and chaos?Īddress submissions to Editor Penda Smith on Submittable, here. For those of us who have had to live in doorways, basements, and hallways, for those of who have had to create underworlds for us to express ourselves and the chaos of our strongest feelings. We know that pleasure work, sex, and kink work are complicated for those of us who live within the margins of society. We want those strong, strange, complicated feelings of desire, pleasure, longing, and chaos. Here is more information on how to write effective alt-text.Īudre Lorde once said, “The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.” If your piece is image-based and has been accepted, you will be asked to provide your own alt-text, prior to the release of the issue. Important Note: Honey is 100% accessible. Please credit Honey Literary as the first publisher if the piece appears elsewhere after publication, which includes, but isn’t limited to other journals, anthologies, chapbooks, and full-length books. We are currently not a paying market…yet. Honey Literary retains first publication rights, and upon publication, rights revert back to the author. Honey Literary accepts and encourages simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere. Please send us your work only once per submission period. docx or image files to the appropriate category on our Submittable page, linked here. This reading period will run from September 15th, 2023 12:00 AM PST to December 15th, 2023 11:59 PM PST. Honey Literary is now open for submissions! We publish two issues each year, one in winter, and one in summer.
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