Magazine · Oakland, California
Ouch! Collective
Ouch! Collective is a volunteer-led, not-for-profit queer and nonbinary arts collective founded in 2022 in the East Bay, California, dedicated to uplifting LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC voices. They publish a print and digital magazine featuring bold, surreal, and genre-defying poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, photography, and sound work. Submissions are free via email and open exclusively to queer, nonbinary, trans, and other LGBTQIA+ creators worldwide, with no AI-generated work permitted.
Open to poets
- General submissions. Currently closed; will reopen mid-January 2027. Fee: Free. Pays: Free PDF copy; free print copy for US contributors; $20 stipend for international contributors. Simultaneous submissions: allowed; notify if accepted elsewhere. Up to 3 poems.
Official site: ouchcollective.com. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
Checked 2026-11-12. Find more places to send your poems on Poetry Marketplace, free.
More places to send your poems
- Out-Spoken Press
- Outlook Springs
- Outrider Press and TallGrass Writers Guild
- Outskirts Literary Journal
- OVER/EXPOSED Lit
- Oversound