Love Me, Love My Belly (LMLMB) is a print zine dedicated to the acceptance of self and imperfection as beauty. It’s about the space between us, our differences, our scars, our wobbly bits, and our power as it relates to the bodies we live in. We publish as our issues fill, about every year to year and a half.
Our zine reading period fluctuates. We consider electronic submissions only.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
April 10 – May 10
LMLMB considers a variety of works ranging from photographs or other artworks to poetry and essay in which size or body image is a central theme. We’re looking for work that ultimately comes to a positive message or close, work that revolves around self acceptance, or work that seeks to accept perceived-imperfection as beautiful.
Please do not submit work that apologizes for itself.
About the Press
Porkbelly Press is an independent chapbook press based in Cincinnati, Ohio (where pigs fly). We print chapbooks, micro chapbooks, anthologies, zines (such as the body image zine Love Me, Love My Belly), and literary magazine Sugared Water.
We welcome works from writers all along the identity spectrum; we’re queer-friendly & feminist. No hate speech.
Our catalog favors lit & poetry leaning heavily toward fabulism, folklore, & magic—often confessional or intimate poems or personal lyric essay. All work should be tightly linked.
love me, love my belly : April 10 – May 10