Join the first Asian Pacific Islander Transmasculine Anthology, featuring intercultural, intergenerational, and intersectional perspectives on navigating different currents of gender, ethnicity, and identity.
Introduction
The API Transmasculine Anthology (APITA) is a grassroots project that highlights storytelling by, for, and about our community. By cultivating our narratives through free and accessible workshops, collaborators from around the world share in a commitment to mutual care and solidarity. The healing power of art and writing amplifies underrepresented perspectives, broadens support networks, and incites social, cultural, and political change.
Fast Facts
Who? Our contributors identify along the Asian Pacific Islander transmasculine spectrum, including nonbinary and mixed-race people, and transracial adoptees of all ages and ethnicities.
What? The anthology offers intercultural, intergenerational, and intersectional perspectives on navigating different currents of gender, ethnicity, and identity within the API transmasculine experience.
When? Works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art will be accepted via our website until January 31, 2021, then published later that year.
Where? Although we're based in the US, anyone who is a part of queer, trans, and API communities around the world can contribute to this project.
Why? As the first anthology created by, for, and about API transmasculine people, we believe in the power of storytelling to inspire, build, and showcase the continuum of our community.
How? Reach out to our wonderful team of volunteers and submit your work.
Upcoming Online Writing Circle!
Now, more than ever, is a time for tapping into our creativity and transilience. After our successful Oakland LGBTQ Center workshop this past February, we will be hosting two online meetups on these dates:
Saturday July 11, 1-3pm PST (4-6pm EST)
Saturday July 25, 1-3pm PST (4-6pm EST)
Submit to the Anthology!
Anyone from first-time artists and writers to seasoned cultural workers and scholars are encouraged to submit. We can assist with recording, transcribing, and editing your work. Our primary genres include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We accept stories, personal narratives, memoirs, essays, plays, mixed media, and more!
Deadline: January 31, 2021