Indecent Magazine

This project is on indefinite hiatus. Check their site to find out whether this is a submission and/or publication hiatus. (March 2023)

About

Indecent is an online magazine for queer voices that forget their place. They get too loud and demand too much attention. They’re too risqué, too unrelatable, too much for the audiences of prominent literary journals, underground horror zines, and everything in between. We’re here for the poetry, fiction, art, and multimedia work that is simply… Indecent.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2022

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

Collapse section Fiction On Hiatus

We want gay campfire stories, trans fairy tales, literary retellings with unlikeable lesbians, gothic horror with nonbinary protagonists, and everything in between. From bisexual cryptids to polyamorous cowboys to space-faring enbies, we want your best: not necessarily your most polished, though we love to see beautiful high-literary work, but your most creative. We’re into your wildest, most off-the-wall ‘what-if’ moments and your slowest, most carefully-crafted purple prose. As long as it’s fiction, written by or about at least one Queer person, we’re chomping at the bit to read your work.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Open to all/most Genres, including:
General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 3,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Sexuality/Gender: LGBTQ issues.

Payment:

Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Pay ranges from Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word).
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Nonfiction On Hiatus

We love essays that make the personal into the aesthetic into the political, which is shorthand for saying we love high-quality nonfiction that can make us really examine the connections and disconnections in the world around us. More popular narratives surrounding the Queer experience will be a hard sell for us because they’re an easier sell everywhere else: unicorn chasing, GBFs, lesbians pure as the driven snow, and being lonely in the closet are all important stories to have and to tell, but they’re more easily published via other avenues. We’re especially here for challenging thinkpieces, funny coincidences, overly honest cringe-fests, and expressions of Queer joy and euphoria.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Essay: Up to 3,000 words.
Narrative Nonfiction: Up to 3,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Sexuality/Gender: LGBTQ issues.

Payment:

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Poetry On Hiatus

From your best impression of Sappho to your worst impression of Richard Siken, we’re all about it. Poetry is a medium to let your emotionality shine— and not just the pretty ones. We’re into sex, love, euphoria, jealousy, genderfuckery, anger, and anything else you pour into the page. We’re here for narrative poetry, prose poetry, visual poetry, particularly poetic shopping lists— whatever Queer poetry you’ve created.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Open to all/most Genres, including:
General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; Up to 5 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms, including: Narrative poetry, Prose poetry, Visual poetry.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Sexuality/Gender: LGBTQ issues.

Payment:

Token payment (under US$5 per poem) Token payment (under US$5 per poem).
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Visual Art On Hiatus

Queer art is and has always been integral to the community, drawing us together and expanding our views so we can find our strength and rally to support one another. We want to support and uplift that art. We accept images of photography, comics, digital artwork, or scanned images of traditional artwork such as paintings, drawings, or sketches.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Artwork: Up to 10 pieces.
Graphic Narrative: No page limits known; Up to 10 pieces.

Art Media:

Digital art.
Drawing.
Cartoon/Comic strip.
Painting.
Photography.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Sexuality/Gender: LGBTQ issues.

Payment:

Token payment (under US$10 per piece) Token payment (under US$10 per piece).
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Image.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026