With issue #4, WTJ experimented with adding images to our virtual pages, black and white photos of New York, and we loved the results so much that we decided to try something similar every issue! To that end, we have opened up our Submittable portal to image submissions: photographs, paintings, collages, drawings, etchings, scrimshaw, spinart, color-by-numbers, etc.
What we want:
Each issue will feature the work of a single visual artist. So, we are looking for around 20 hi-res images from each artist, along with a short bio and (optional) artist’s statement. The images will be threaded through the issue, one on every page, but readers should be able to see clearly that all the images are stylistically and/or thematically linked.
To submit, combine all images into a single PDF, and upload the PDF.
The same aesthetic guidelines apply visually as they do to the writing we crave: weird, devious, melancholy, smart, experimental, and playful are all good. To which we might add, terrifying or dystopian or breathtaking or subversive, in response to the unrelenting insanity that swirls around us. (Sexy is fine, but no porn!)
- If you’re communicative and willing to do a little back-and-forth with the editors around layout time, that would be a plus.
- We love diverse voices.
- We have no time or tolerance for bigotry or monotony.
- We don’t give a fuck, flying or otherwise, about your MFA.
Whiskey Tit attempts to restore degradation and degeneracy to the literary arts. We are unwilling to sacrifice intellectual rigour, unrelenting playfulness, and visual beauty, often leading to texts that would otherwise be abandoned in a homogenised literary landscape. In a world gone mad, our refusal to make this sacrifice is an act of civil service and civil disobedience alike, and our work reflects this. We welcome like-minded readers and writers.
The people in power want you dumb. Literature helps resist that.
Please make sure you familiarize yourself with the press before submitting.