Year Round Queer

09/16/2025

We are now accepting submissions for Year Round Q***r’s Spring 2026 issue!!

This issue will focus on the concept of SEEDS. We cannot build a better world without planting what we want to grow. What have you been planting? Who taught you how to grow things? What must you do to create the conditions you need for growth? We want to hear and see it all.

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN UNTIL OCTOBER 15, 2025.

Submission form link is in our bio🌱

07/28/2025

📣 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🎉

Esse () grew up on Dena’ina land and is grateful to have always called Alaska home. They are a q***r, neurodivergent multi-media artist, educator, and survivor whose creative passions include collage, painting, zines, costumery, storytelling, and ceremony. Gemini sun, Scorpio moon, and Capricorn rising, Esse is drawn to contradictions, unsolvable questions, and things in transition. Their art often explores themes of human fragility and resilience, trauma and healing, griefwork and recovery. In the summer, they can be found frolicking in the flowers, harvesting medicinal teas, dreaming about blueberries, and belly laughing. Their greatest joy right now is tending to q***r friendships that are rooted in care, resistance, and creativity.

See their work in the Death issue of our zine - get your copy at the link in our bio!

07/26/2025

THANK YOU!!!!!!! Y’all turned out and turned up and we could not be more grateful for this community.

Get your copy of the Death edition of the zine at the link in our bio and stay tuned for submissions opening for the next issue: Seeds.

Love you love you love you

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07/21/2025

📣 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🎉

The new issue (launching this Friday at The Nave!!) features a collage from — here’s what she has to say about this behind the scenes moment:

“This is from a craft night that I hosted in the rec room of my housing co-op! Making art in community is pretty much the only way I actually sit down and do it, and I’m so grateful for the group of crafters that has come together to do this together over the years! All are welcome to join our WhatsApp group, just dm me !!”

07/20/2025

every time we hang with yall it’s a guaranteed good time. so obviously we are counting the minutes until FRIDAY AT THE NAVE!!! have you picked your outfit yet?

07/18/2025

📣 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🎉

M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them) is a trans disabled kinky writer and nurse. They are a recipient of a 2023 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, a Lambda Literary Fellow. Their work can be found in Fence Magazine, Year Round Q***r, & In the Future There Are No Hospitals.

See their work at and by getting your copy of the Death issue of Year Round Q***r on July 25 at The Nave!

07/17/2025

Can’t get over how much fun y’all are. Grateful for the sapphic squad in Anchorage, and everywhere. Thanks for hanging and making zines with us tonight, and thank you so much for the invite .i.ggs 💖

SEE YOU ALLL NEXT FRIDAY!!! 💖💖💖

07/15/2025

📢 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🎉

Living in Alaska has brought home to themself and taught them the importance of grieving, every day. They remember learning that shame is attached to death, but now they feel how uniting death is. How intimate it is to know another is grieving. How beautiful it is to be in community with grief. Han is a Death Doula (), a griever, a spouse, a yoga teacher, and a community resource advocate. Their heartwork is connecting community, and poetry is the connective tissue of their work. They are coming home to themself.

See Han’s work in the Death issue of Year Round Q***r - available July 25 at The Nave!

06/05/2025

hi babes. JULY 25. sorry it’s been so long, but we promise this is worth the wait. can’t wait to see you.  😘

10/04/2024

We are so excited to be teaching a workshop at the Alaska Botanical Garden later this month! Join us for a guaranteed good time:

Check out Zine Workshop by Alaska Botanical Garden!

08/01/2024

Submit to our fall issue (theme: Death) by August 15!!

FALL 2024 THEME:DEATH EVERYTHING HAS A BEGINNING, AND AN END. Death of a loved one, death of an idea, death of an ego. Death is all around us, in many forms. In this issue we encourage artists to contemplate how they interact with death and what forms of death they have experience with. We hope that...

08/01/2024

🚨🚨🚨It’s been a hectic summer!! Deadline extended!!! We hope to see your beautiful and creepy and fun and weird and esoteric art so soon!!! 🚨🚨🚨 (also if you reach out about your piece specifically please remember that we try to read the entries anonymously!! please don’t mention any specifics about your piece!)