Letter from the Editors

Our world is filled with erotic energy.

The word erotic is loaded and, at best, ambiguous; yet, for most of us, it’s also excitatory. It elicits sensations, memories, fantasies, an entire world that is most often submerged below the surface of our everyday selves. But what, exactly, is erotic and what does it mean to publish a magazine dedicated to the erotic in arts and literature?

Perhaps in contemplating the erotic, we should gaze backwards toward ancient Greece where the concept was borne from the flutter of Eros’s wings. The word erotic comes from the Greek myth of Eros. Eros, once a primordial force within the universe and then, in later myths, the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares, Eros came to represent those forces of love and fertility. In part, the early myths have endured and even transmutated from culture to culture because they capture the complexity of the human experience and distill it into simple archetypes and stories. Eros is no different. Though Eros’s origins evolved over time, he has remained a force active in the lives of all of us, igniting within us our own carnality and desire.

With this in mind, I like to think of Eros as the seat of our soul from which the most primal and sexual parts of our natures emerge. The erotic, then, is the form in which our carnality takes shape. 

When contemplating the themes of Pink Disco, I thought hard about what it means to feel that energy. On the one hand, we could easily look at what has become commodified as sex in our society and point to that as erotic. To some extent, this works. But I also firmly believe some of the most potent sex we encounter is founcd in the sublime and secret whispers of our everyday lives.

Don’t get me wrong. Pink Disco welcomes latex, leather, nipple clamps, and feathers. We want to see your O face. But we also believe the most explicit sex is not an isolated act but the apex of the totality of our experience; it is a celebration of what it means to be human, to have a body, and to experience sensation.

Pink Disco, then, is a celebration of the erotic, our carnality, our bodies, and ultimately our humanness.

Come play with us.

Pink

What It Is

Pink Disco is a quarterly magazine that celebrates sex, sexuality, and the body in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We welcome the taboo, the weird, the kinky, and the unexpected and strongly encourage nontraditional and underrepresented voices to contribute.

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Who We Are

Now accepting submissions for issue 2. The theme will be HEAT.

Imminent Dates
MAY 21, 2023
Issue 2 - Submissions CLOSE

MAY 22, 2023
Issue 3 - Submissions OPEN

JUN 21, 2023
Issue 2 - AVAILABLE

What We Are Looking For
We welcome submissions of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art that is erotically focused and speaks to the human condition. We are especially interested in works that feature any and all consensual relationship styles, sexual identities, and body types. We love to defy convention and are open to the weird, the kinky, and the transgressive.

What We Will Not Condone
We will not accept submissions that glorify non-consensual sex and / or nudity, especially that of children and / or non-human animals. We will not accept work created by artificial intelligence.

No AI generated text will be accepted.

Does My Submission Have to Feature Sex or Nudity?
The short answer is no. The nuanced answer is that sex can be defined any way you see fit. Sometimes even the most everyday objects drip with erotic energy. As long as your submission is compelling and original, it will be considered for publication.

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Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction
We are open to accepting short story, nonfiction, flash fiction, and poetry. For fiction and nonfiction, we ask that you limit your word count to 3,000 words or fewer.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that if your piece(s) is accepted elsewhere, you let us know as soon as possible.

Further, we will only accept original works that have not yet been published. Upon publication, Pink Disco Magazine reserves the rights of all materials, but will return the rights to the original author following the publication period.

For longer pieces of fiction and nonfiction, please limit submissions to one piece per submission cycle.

For poetry and flash fiction, you may submit up to six pieces per submission cycle.

To submit
You may attach your submission(s) as a Word document and send to pinkdiscomagazine@gmail.com. Let us know in the header whether or not it is a fiction, nonfiction, or poetry submission. In your email, we also ask that you provide a brief bio, as well as an introduction to your work.

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Visual Art
We will accept up to six pieces per submission period. If including images of identifiable people, we request that you also submit a model release form for each featured model, as well as verification that the model(s) is of legal consenting age. Submissions without these forms will not be accepted.

No AI generated art will be accepted.

To submit
Send all submissions to pinkdiscomagazine@gmail.com with a subject line of “Art Submission.” In your email, we ask that you also provide a brief biography, as well as an artist statement about your work. Art should be submitted as an attachment in jpg or png format or as a url where the work can be viewed individually. Low resolution images are fine for initial selection but if work is selected, it will be required to be at least 1200 pixels in width or height.