Submit to Ginger Bug

Calling all queer baristas, line cooks, bartenders, dishwashers, servers, grocers, butchers, bakers, whoever else! Ginger Bug Press is publishing an anthology from queer and trans food service workers.

Somewhere along the way, working in food service became the stereotypical profession for working-class queers and we want to hear why. Tell us why you love it or hate it, moments you've felt safe or unsafe, what sort of utopian food service future you see or your fantasies of burning it all to the ground. What tiny moments of injustice, rapture, resilience, community, and heart have you witnessed entrenched in the small details of your daily systems, routines, and the folks around you that make the work possible? What's the truth you need to testify at the end of a long shift in order to feel *heard?*

Edited by Myles Taylor & Otto Vock, two non-binary poets who are constantly threatening to quit their jobs. (Addendum, one did! But probably won’t be away from the industry for long, you know how it goes.)

Submission guidelines:

• Submit all work through this Google Form.

• Work can be but does not have to explicitly be about being queer -- we are looking for work about food service, by queer people.

• No previously published work! (Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere)  

• Poetry: send 1-3 poems in a single document.

• Prose: send one essay or piece of short fiction under 1,000 words.

• Art/multimedia: 1-3 pieces in a high quality image format (.png preferred); please note all work will be printed in B&W/grayscale and final print size will be 8.5x5.5. (If your file size is too large for the Google Form, please email it to gingerbugpress@gmail.com with the subject line SERVICE WORK SUBMISSION - [YOUR NAME])

• If you're not sure that your work 100% fits our theme -- whatever, send it anyway! We'll decide.

All contributors will receive a $15 honorarium and a contributors copy of the final zine.