latenight breakfast is liminal, contradictory, and scrumptious. An act of defiance that happens in the wee hours of the night; that evokes resistance and indulgence which resonates with every queer heart.
An independent literary space based in India, latenight breakfast wants to encourage writers who have always wanted to write and publish their works of resistance. Our magazine showcases writing that has no home. Writing that's too sharp for comfort & too warm to ignore.
We offer writing sessions, editing sessions, editorial feedback, and compensation for poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual art. Each issue has a theme grown from the current state of the world and global acts of resistance.
Who is trans? Before you jump to an answer, you might want to ask what is trans?, if you are careful. And let's not define that with reference to cis — a word that trans as a word preceded by a decade, and trans lives by millions. So what is trans? Is it not-not-trans? Or an orientation or a condition? Do you need biology to define it or are emotions enough? One could ask if emotions themselves are biology? That debate is never-ending. There are books, theory and careers built on this.
But you know what — it is much easier to find out who is trans, elusively simple — you ask them and let them tell you. That's it.
That's where we want to meet you, dear writer — when we invite you to write transgressions, we don't want the hypothetical or the analysis — they are great and have their place, but we are interested in the embodied — lines that are sharp enough to cut through the dominant and warm enough to wrap you in your coldest nights. We want alternate stories that thicken the plot — writing that doesn't care about moving the needle but is relentless in persecuting the dogma.
Our first issue centers trans voices in this particular moment — April 2026, after the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act passed over protest, over walkout, over the resignations of the people appointed to protect what it claimed to protect. The state decided identity must pass through medical boards and magistrate approval. That some of us don't get to say who we are.
We're writing anyway.
Writing transgressions as a practice to center the voices of those experiencing the turmoil of this moment most intimately, voices that are refusing to resolve the tension between the trauma and joy. Write transgressions, translations, transitions and everything that is trans.
We accept work in Hindi and English only. We only consider completed manuscripts — no pitches. We don't accept previously published work.
Emailed submissions will be discarded unread. The only way to submit work to us is through our online Google Form.
Writers will be consulted on any noticeable editing done on their work, and will have the opportunity to proofread galleys for typographical errors.
By submitting, if accepted, you grant us first electronic rights and non-exclusive archival rights. All submissions remain the intellectual property of the artist. Rights revert to the author upon publication.