The Locust Arts & Letters Collective is an association of radical, critical irrealist and socialist artists that publishes Locust Review and helps organize a number of other projects. Submissions should be forwarded to editors@locustreview.com. Submission guidelines: All images should be jpegs -- at least 300 dpi and at least eight inches at their widest dimension. Images should be submitted with the full name of the artist, the title of the work, media, and date. Text files need to be submitted as either word documents or google docs. Submitted fiction should be no more than 3,500 words (per story). Submitted poetry should be no more than three pages (for each poem). Non-fiction and theory should no more than 3,500 words, and reviews should be no more than 2,500 words. Due to the volume of submissions we cannot respond to all those who submit work.
current lalc members
Alexander Billet lives in Los Angeles, and is a writer of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, a visual artist, a musician, and an aspiring underachiever. His written work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Salvage, Jacobin, In These Times, Chicago Review, Radical Art Review, Historical Materialism blog, and other outlets. He is a founding member of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, helps edit Locust Review. He screams into the void at alexanderbillet.com. He is the author of the 2022 book, Shake the City.
Anupam Roy is a multidisciplinary artist based in India. His practice spans drawing, painting, journalistic photography, posters, zines, graffiti, video, and collaborative and collective art practices. Through this diverse range of media and modes, he reflects on his experiences and observations in the hinterlands of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, where he was born; the urban landscapes of Delhi, where he currently lives and works, and Central and Northeast India, where is has engaged in regional political inquiry and propaganda praxis. His artistic investigations critically examine the limitations of contemporary representational politics in visual culture, as well as the intersections of land and labor movements, with a focus on surplus populations and their precarious conditions within the contemporary capitalist system.
You may recognize Leslie Lea as the hostess from the Country Cajun commercial, but probably not, because the joint was shit and went belly up. Today you may find her deep in the bowels of the Corpus Christi Trade Center vending her wares for coin. Or, You may catch her selling roses at dirty night clubs on the weekends . She is the mother of hens, a dumbass dog named Louie and a Venus fly trap named Baron Harkonnen (which were adopted because she cannot give natural birth to chickens, plants or dogs). Some call her a Goddess. But most call her a bottom ass witch. She spends her days creating soaps, candles, poetry and art.
Laura Fair-Schulz was born in the 1960s in central Canada, and has lived in Canada, the United States and Germany. She is an artist and an adjunct art professor in Potsdam, New York.
Adam Marks is an award-losing author, shit-poster, Bolshevik and adopted Welsh Republican, living and working in Caerdydd, Cymru.
Omnia Sol is a cartoonist, digital/analog glitch artist, and musician residing in Chicago, Illinois. They have an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Southern Illinois University. Some of Omnia Sol’s artistic influences include alchemy, left wing politics, esotericism, op art, kinetic art, visual noise, glitch art, as well as comic books and pop culture.
Tish Turl is an author and artist who writes what they call “class-revenge fanfiction.” They are a member of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective and an editor for Locust Review. Tish also works on the Born Again Labor Museum. Their work includes the serialized novella Sound, the short stories, “Space Goths,” “Memez,” and “Sewerbot,” the serialized poems of the Toilet Key Anthology and the “Stink Ape Resurrection Primer.” They have an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University.
April Miller is a purveyor of ephemera, chronic oppositionist, and ultra-radical oat-sower. She is a member of North Brooklyn DSA and a Master's Student in Labor Studies at the City University of New York. April is on the editorial board of Reform & Revolution magazine and the former editor-in-chief of the Cooper Point Journal."
Adam Turl is an artist and writer in southern Illinois, an editor at Locust Review, a member of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective. They work on an evolving art project and DIY community organizing space, the Born Again Labor Museum, with their partner, Tish Turl. They received an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art/Washington University in St. Louis, and a BFA from Southern Illinois University (SIU). Adam has had solo exhibitions at the Brett Wesley Gallery, Cube Gallery and Art Space 304. In 2016 they had a fellowship and residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Adam’s book, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth (Revol Press, 2025), was nominated for an On the Brinck book award by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture. They
also have a PhD in media arts from SIU.