support our work
You can support our work financially through a number of ways and help ensure Foglifter remains a home for 2SLGBTQIA+ literary artists now and always:
Purchase a copy of the journal
Purchase an auto-renew subscription and become a friend of Foglifter
Make a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal Giving Fund
Help Support the Next generation of Queer and Trans literary artists
There are many ways to support our work at no cost:
Subscribe to our newsletter and share your good literary news with our growing 2SLGBTQIA+ community
Follow us where we live on social media (Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and YouTube)
Request our publications at your local or university library or bookstore
Attend our events in-person and/or online
Submit a testimonial about Foglifter’s impact on your writing life
other ways to lift up our community
our work
Foglifter Press is a San Francisco-based platform dedicated to supporting, publishing, and amplifying the voices of 2SLGBTQIA+ writers, with a particular focus on centering BIPOC, disabled, youth, and elder artists within queer and trans communities.
Twice a year, we publish groundbreaking queer and trans literary work in our biannual journal.
Once a year, we publish and support an emerging BIPOC Bay Area writer through our Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize.
Working with our community partners like Still Here San Francisco, we offer BIPOC San Francisco based literary artists well-paid opportunities to teach community based literary arts courses.
Throughout the year, we host in-person and online readings uplifting the 2SLGBTQIA+ literary community.
For 10 years, Foglifter has been a home for queer and trans literature, and in that time, we’ve published over 850 writers and 30 visual artists from across the world—offering space to celebrate, mourn, rage, resist, and imagine otherwise. By putting extraordinary queer and trans writers into conversation, we uplift a growing community of LGBTQ+ readers and writers and carve out space in the larger literary community for voices that have historically been silenced.
our values
We serve a broad kaleidoscope of literary and non-literary communities across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum.
We provide a path to representation for a broad selection of 2SLGBTQIA+ voices, centering queer and trans literary artists of color, youth, elders, and those beyond traditional 2SLGBTQIA+ cultural centers so that our readers and audiences can see their own experiences represented through queer and trans literary arts.
We learn from both established and emerging literary artists and scholars who are actively contributing to a global discourse on queer and trans cultures.
We believe that queer and trans people must curate our own artistic discourses and we curate with a commitment to not perpetuate harm in our communities and recognize our responsibilities as editors to uplift the voices of queer and trans people while not punching down on those of us who live at the intersection of multiple oppressed identities.
We operate with an expansive view of queer and trans literary arts that includes a sense of multiplicity and generosity—there is no one type of queer or trans literary artist. Rather we demand room for change, growth, and new voices.
We believe that queer is not only an adjective, it is an intersectional verb that challenges homophobic, transphobic, and other oppressive ideas.
We value collaborations and partnerships with queer and trans literary artists, queer and trans literary arts organizations, and mainstream literary arts organizations. We must all work together to create a more just, equitable, and inclusive literary arts community.
