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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: #002: GENDER ISSUE

Submissions are open for youth (under 25) short-form writing and art, all about the theme of gender.

What does your experience of gender feel like? What makes you feel gender euphoria? Do you have a story of gender exploration to share? Do you have a question about gender you’d like answered by trans adults?

Submit your art or writing in the form below! We will be featuring a selection of submissions in our spring 2026 Gender issue. Anonymity welcome!

Submissions Due: Feb 27 2026!

ISSUE #002 GUIDELINES

Short form writing: short poems, essays, letters, lists, questions, and other pieces under 500 words-ish.

Visual art: drawings, collages, comics, paintings, and other pieces that can fit on a single or half page (our pages are 8.5x11”].

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: #003: POETRY ISSUE

Submissions are open for poems from 2SLGBTQIA+ writers of all ages! All types of poems welcome, of all themes and genres including visual poetry, and poetry comics.

We will be featuring submissions in future poetry-themed editions of the Youth Politic.

Please keep in mind we have an all-age audience centred around 2SLGBTQIA+ young people under 25!

Submissions Due May 29 2026.

ISSUE #003 GUIDELINES

For written poems, we have space for one page per submission, which can be split into two columns.

For visual poems, we have space for a half to full page per submission.

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