Redbone Press Submissions

Redbone Press

Fiction, Non-fiction, African-American, Feminist, LGBTQ+, Poetry
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About Redbone Press

RedBone Press publishes work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promoted understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream.

Founded in 1997 by Lisa C. Moore, RedBone Press was created to address a dearth of black lesbian voices in lesbian feminist publishing. Moore began researching the histories of feminist presses in 1995 while collecting and editing material for RedBone Press’ first book, does your mama know?

An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (1997). does your mama know? won two 1997 Lambda Literary Awards, for Small Press and Lesbian Studies. RedBone Press’ second title, the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth, won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Small Press.

Redbone Press Submissions

Unfortunately, Redbone does not leave the welcome mat out for unsolicited mss. We included them in our listings because they are badass, plain and simple. You can always query.

Meet some Redbone authors

Alexis De Veaux – Alex’s work is defined by two critical concerns: making the racial and sexual experiences of black female characters central, and disrupting boundaries between forms. She is the author of two award-winning biographies: Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde.

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene – Yvonne is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, educator, actress and mixed-media visual artist. Etaghene has performed internationally, produced four solo visual art exhibitions and is the founder of Sugarcane, an LGBTQ of color writing workshop series.

G. Winston James – G. Winston is a Jamaican-born poet, author, essayist and editor. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. James is the author of the Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist collection Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories. He recently wrote the introduction to American photographer Thomas Roma’s book of portraits, In the Vale of Cashmere (powerHouse, 2015).

What they’re saying about Redbone Press

“It’s easy to be depressed about the publishing options for queer writers of color. Both Sister Vision and Kitchen Table, the two big-mama queer-of-color presses, died in the ’90s. But it’s also important to look at what’s working. Aunt Lute Books is still alive, though its output is slow. RedBone Press just celebrated its eleventh year publishing award-winning Black lesbian and gay literature—including poetry.

“Lisa C. Moore founded RedBone after white feminist publishers told her that there was ‘no market’ for her anthology of Black lesbian coming-out stories, does your mama know?—which is now in its fourth printing. In the face of white feminist presses who say they don’t know how to sell work by women of color, Moore goes to where Black queers are, selling books at Black lesbian conferences and Black queer prides across the country.”

— from “To Hell with ‘There’s No Market for You’: Queer Writers of Color and Independent Publishing,” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha, make/shift, Fall/Winter 2008/2009

RedBone Press
P.O. Box 15815
New Orleans, LA 70175

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