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The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010. Check our guidelines and submit: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/link-tree
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Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Overlaid is an excerpt from Natalie.
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To unwrap a body of porcelain skin
Unlace with a gentle hand—
ever so slightly.
Find the beat, then—
pierce.
Read more of "Porcelain Doll" by Natalie Gachoka in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
Image is the cover art by Boluwatife Abiodun Emmanuel. It is a watercolor painting of a Black woman dancing. Overlaid is text with a excerpt from the piece.
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Morning/Hatching
the gods delight themselves in breaking me & dawn unfurls from its cocoon of night to reveal the scattered pieces. every piece a reminder of the scars sewn into the tapestry of my soul.
Read more by John Ebute in The B'K Magazine, Volume 17, Issue 1 via 🔗 in bio.
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Thank you!
I've seen a few of yall looking for places to write I can't remember everyone
SUBS OPEN
We are looking for memories and imaginations of relational repair done right, explanations of rituals and strategies for meaningful repair, and envisioning a future where accountability and repair are the norm.
Guidelines: www.globalmajoritypress.org/guidelines/
A paper heart is cut jaggedly into two pieces and has a bandaid spanning across the two. Text says All My Relations, Volume 10, repair. Submissions open.
Oh, no! We didn't get enough submissions for a full issue. So, we're leaving submissions open until Feb 25. Send us your work on the theme of "repair."
Open to racially and ethnically marginalized, gender variant, and disabled creatives only.
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So happy to make my first official publication of 2026 in @thebkmagazine.bsky.social, which includes my poem, "Nyctinasty" in the new issue!
I'm delighted to have my #creativenonfiction featured in the most recent issue of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social!
If you enjoy reading about #queer experiences, this features two 🏳️🌈😱🙃
Read it/purchase a copy at The B'K's website: www.globalmajoritypress.org
which has tons of other great content too
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Overlaid is an excerpt from Nadia.
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14 days I gave in return for 14 stolen years
Each of those days I dedicated to memorizing the lines on my grandfather’s face.
Lines that were not there, when I last was.
Read more by Nadia Mustefa in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Overlaid is an excerpt from Daniel.
On a quiet silvery night, you stretch a hand to touch the moon’s face—to steal, maybe a pinch of its serenity and bury it inside your chest.
Read more of "The Moon, A Country, And Litany of Boys" by Daniel Aôndona in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Overlaid is an excerpt from Gail.
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Bind your chest, but not too tight;
Find your community but you shouldn’t be too loud;
Don’t wear skirts or dresses — you said you were a boy?
Read more of "The Rules." by Gail Kaufman in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
Background image is the cover art by Boluwatife Abiodun Emmanuel. It is a watercolor painting of a Black woman dancing. Text overlaid is the list of artists, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers featured in the issue. Text at the bottom says These pieces and more launching January 1!
The B'K Magazine, Volume 17, Issue 1 launches on Jan 1! It features cover art from Boluwatife Abiodun Emmanuel, as well as art by @mccloudwrites.bsky.social and Lynn Wolfe; fiction by Delaney Kelly, Katara J. Z., and Sophia Krich-Brinton; and nonfiction by @odiwelter.bsky.social.
Illustration of an open envelope, with a piece of paper emerging. The paper says "The B'K & All My Relations nominees for the Pushcart Prize are..." and lists the pieces and authors.
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We are excited to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize! They are:
“holy anyway” by Dane Lyn
“History & Inheritance” by X.Y.
Read all these amazing pieces here: globalmajoritypress.org/nominations/
Illustration of an open envelope, with a piece of paper emerging. The paper says "The B'K & All My Relations nominees for the Pushcart Prize are..." and lists the pieces and authors.
We are excited to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize! They are:
“The Warm-Dark-Small” by Sophie Najm
“Erasure poem from NHS clinical commissioning policy on puberty blockers” by Stella Aster
“Porcelain Doll” by Natalie Gachoka
“The dead house” by Bharti
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Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Overlaid is an excerpt from Jeanette.
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“I might faint,” you say, pallid-faced, bent over in your chair. Your pajama leg is yanked up to expose the meat of your thigh, the syringe hovering in your trembly hand.
Read more of "Fear of Needles" by Jeanette Barszewski in The B'K Magazine: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
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