Acquired Tastes Anthology
Deadline February 2 (must be received by this date). Roxane Gay Books, a literary imprint helmed by the notable feminist author, is seeking short fiction and essays by young writers aged 15-21 for Acquired Tastes, "an anthology celebrating unlikeable characters: how we create them, how we understand them, how we love them and how they enrage us, and why they are so necessary to our stories." Accepted contributors receive $1,000. Send one prose piece up to 5,000 words.
Source: https://gay.submittable.com/submit
Published: January 5, 2026
