The Bitchin’ Kitsch

The B’K is a quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all.

“We are interested in people being able to decolonize their own stories and tell their own stories.”

Read an interview with Chris Talbot-Heindl by Clara B. Jones in PANK Magazine

Current Issue

The Summer 2022 issue is here! It’s a stunning issue featuring 23 creators. The issue features cover art from Zaynab Bobi as well as:

Fiction by: Chloe Feffer, L.C. Lupus, Lilia Anderson, and Tracey N. Hébert-Seck

Non-fiction by: Chachee Valentine

Poetry by: Auzin, Chella Courington, Cheryl Aguirre, Chisom Charles Nnanna, Gray Caston, J. Alex Huerta, Joshua Effiong, ​​Madeline Lokensgard, Marisa Silva-Dunbar, Mim Murrells, M.R. “Chibbi” Orduña, Matt Hsu, nahal g, Niina Tsuyuki Dubik, Sam Moe, Taiwo Hassan, and Tate

Check out Volume 13, Issue 3 below!

Read previous issues on our archives pages:

• 2022 Issues
• 2021 Issues
• 2020 Issues
• 2019 Issues
• 2018 Issues
• 2017 Issues
• 2016 Issues
• 2015 Issues
• 2014 Issues
• 2013 Issues
• 2012 Issues
• 2011 Issues
• 2010 Issues

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Submissions, Issues, and Subscriptions

If you would like to submit to the next issue, please follow our guidelines, which can be found on the Submissions page.

You can buy back issues of The B’K in our Ko-fi shop page. All proceeds go toward paying our BIPOC, gender variant, and disabled creatives; our website and software; the copies that are featured at our community locations in Stevens Point, Wisconsin: Tech Lounge, LLC and The Coffee Studio and Denver Zine Library in Denver, Colorado.

You can also support The B’K by purchasing a t-shirt, art print, or hoodie to show your love on our Society6 page or our RedBubble page.

We also have a Patreon where you can subscribe to issues of The B’K!

Land Back Statement

The B’K occupies the ancestral and traditional lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples. In offering this land acknowledgment, I also acknowledge the state-sanctioned acts of genocide against the original inhabitants of this area and the challenges Indigenous communities face today as a result of colonization. I affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, knowledge, and experiences. I also pledge to support the Land Back movement and reparations in any way that I can until such time that the land is ceded to its rightful stewards.