paper teeth press
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a goofy lil press for goofy lil guys
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about the press
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✦ a queer lit press for weird poems, goofy prose, beautifully queer and queerly beautiful works
✦ founded by dre levant and Loki Diakiw.
✦ est. december 2022
✦ follow us on social media for the latest submission calls and updates on the mag!
twitter: @paperteethpress
instagram: @paperteeth.press
email: [email protected]
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submission guidelines
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SUBS CLOSED✾ please email all submissions to [email protected] ✾general submissions guidelines
✦ we only accept submissions from writers in the queer community
✦ submissions are free; however, if you have requested feedback with your piece, consider sending us a few doll hairs on ko-fi <3 NOT required though!
✦if you'd like feedback, please indicate in your email with your submission and we will be sure include it with our decision
✦ we do not tolerate any hate-speech or hateful content
✦ you maintain all rights to your work; if it is published elsewhere or in a collection, we simply ask that you give us credit for first publication.
✦ while we are not a paying market atm, we hope to be as soon as possible. what we can give you is tons of celebration of you and as much promotion as we can on social media <3poetry subs
✦ please submit as many poems as you'd like
✦ pdf or word doc
✦ 12pts times new roman or garamond preferable (but we're open to any font as long as it's legible)
✦ please include a cover letter OR include in the body of your email your name, pronouns, socials, and a brief third person bio (50 words max please!!)prose subs
✦ please submit short stories, flash fiction, hybrid pieces, no minimum word count, max 7,500
✦ pdf or word doc
✦ 12pts times new roman or garamond preferable (but we're open to any font as long as it's legible)
✦ please include a cover letter OR include in the body of your email your name, pronouns, socials, and a brief third person bio (50 words max please!!)art subs
✦ up to five images
✦ pdf or word doc
✦ please include a cover letter OR include in the body of your email your name, pronouns, socials, and a brief third person bio (50 words max please!!)
paper teeth shop
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issue two: A SHAKESPEAREAN ROMP
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issue one: FRUITCAKE
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our lil atrocities
a micro poem collection by dre levant
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blog post: november 17th, 2023
Monologue over Coffee (Perfect for Auditions!)
by Clem Flowers
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left in this light known as “the joy” --- feeling wonderful like David swinging his slingshot like Atalanta squaring up to the bear a righteous fury surmounted all the venom surrendered all the weights gone off your throat joy & it's joy & it's joy &yetyou never reallyfeel the jaw or the shouldersrelaxalways so hard to find sleepsmiles seem more forced every dayhappiness most would kill for &yetdo you really feel like you deserve it?✦
about the author
Clem Flowers (They/Them) is a poet, gorgeous monstrosity, and generally queer as hell cryptid, with 10 chapbooks & a full length book of poetry to their name. Lives in a cozy apartment with their wonderful spouse & sweet calico kitty in the desert. Found on twitter @clem_flowers & on Bluesky at clemflowers.bsky.social.
masthead
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founder & prose editor
Loki Diakiw (they/he)
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Loki Diakiw is a long-time obsessive of fantasy and grimdark genres, and will never turn away from reading anything dragon-related. They are working towards a BA in English and Philosophy, and have attended several years at the SIWC. Specializing in prose, short stories and hopeful for the commitment to finish a novel, you can find Loki @lokidiakiw on Instagram.
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founder & poetry editor
dre levant (he/they)
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dre levant is a genderqueer artist & writer. dre loves wearing as much glitter eyeshadow as possible, making art that is macably vibrant, & building wine cellars in minecraft. they are the author of several poetry chapbooks, including icarus rising (kith books '23) and jack invites werewolves to the tea party (alien buddha press '23). for snippets of poetry & cat pics, follow @drethepiper on instagram, twitter, & tumblr.