Transitive
Rag
a journal of the best and trashiest trans creativity
Submit your work
Submissions are open for
transitive rag #1: October 2025We publish poetry, personal writing, art, and digital projects.Submissions close 15 August 2025
You will hear back from us by 1 OctoberWhat are we looking for?
Works that defy the expectations of form, function, and content. Art and artists that are transitive: that do something to an audience. Creativity that makes people say, 'wow I could never have thought of that.' Submissions that baffle the general public and speak directly to trans and gender-diverse people. We want the subversive, the maligned, the ignored, the too-complicated; works that are ugly in their prettiness or pretty in their ugliness.
Guidelines
You must be a trans or gender-diverse person. We have an inclusive and broad view of transness.
Anything created with input from any form of AI model (e.g. an LLM) is not eligible.
Your work must be publishable on this website: text, images, HTML-format digital projects, etc. If you can attach it to an email, you can probably submit it.
We accept simultaneous submissions and previously-published work but let us know the details in your email. We encourage you to submit things that have been rejected by other publications.
Poetry: up to five poems. Send one PDF or Word Doc.
Personal Writing: one or two pieces of opinion, personal essay or memoir, 400–600 words each. Send one PDF or Word Doc.
Art: up to three art pieces. Send as JPEG, PNG, or PDF.
Digital projects: must be playable in-browser and take no longer than 20 minutes to read/play/complete. Interactive fiction and games are welcome. Send us a link to your work on cloud storage or web hosting — for security we won't open ZIP files or other compressed archives.
Every published submission will receive a AU$20 honorarium.
If you're unsure about anything, get in touch with us.
How to Submit
Send us an email and include:
your name (and pen name if you use one),
your pronouns,
a short bio about you,
where you live (please include the names of traditional owners of colonised lands),
the title of your submission,
content warnings for the submission,
anything else you want us to know, and
your work attached or linked.
Email us securely at
[email protected]
transitive rag
is published by Celestial Fool PressManaging editor: Ori Diskett
Social media: Rae WhiteWe operate on the unceded sovereign lands of the Jagera and Turrbul people.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
About The Editor
Ori Diskett (he/she) is a writer, editor, sex worker, and law student. He writes and works in Meanjin/Brisbane on the unceded sovereign lands of the Jagera and Turrbul people. Ori writes about things that are important to her like loving monsters and being trans; her poetry appears in print and online, and she was recently shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2025. You won't find him on social media, but head to oridiskett.com for more info.
Works © Respective Authors
Site © Ori Diskett and Celestial Fool Press 2025
