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
Tish Turl is a writer, artist, and a founding member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective. They are the author of the serialized novella, Sound, appearing in Locust Review, as well as an ongoing poetry series, The Toilet Key Anthology and the franken-prose-poetry project, Stink Ape Resurrection Primer. Tish is a co-organizer of the Born Again Labor Museum with Adam Turl. They are finishing their MFA in creative writing at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Marks is a writer and socialist living in the United Kingdom.
Adam Turl is an artist, writer, founding member of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, and co-organizer of the Born Again Labor Museum with Tish Turl. Turl was born in upstate New York sometime in the previous century, and grew up in southern Illinois. They spent portions of their adulting years in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Saint Louis. Turl’s father was a Baptist preacher and their mother was a public school teacher. One of their earliest memories was going to the union HQ while their mom was on strike. The steam and smoke from the crockpots, chain-smoking teachers, and coffee urns turned into clouds beneath a fiberboard heaven. In their youth, when the Internet was still for military officials and STEM academics, they made zines by hand at the copy shop with other artists and delinquents. When Turl became a revolutionary in the late 1990s they dropped out of art school to focus on the emancipation of the working-class. They have a BFA at Southern Illinois University (SIU) and an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art. They have exhibited at the Brett Wesley Gallery and Cube Gallery (Las Vegas), Gallery 210 (St. Louis), Project 1612 (Peoria), and Artspace 304 (Carbondale). In 2016 they received a fellowship and residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Turl published their first book, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth (Revol Press) in 2025.
Alice McIntyre is an organizer, writer, and graphic artist based in the South Puget Sound. After graduating from The Evergreen State College she did a brief tour of proletarian duty as an industrial baker, and now wages aesthetic war against the regime of alienated labor from the front lines of the dole queue. She is a member of Olympia DSA and the Revolutionary Education Distro. You can find Alex in your walls.
Omnia Sol is a cartoonist, digital/analog glitch artist, and musician residing in Chicago, Illinois. They are the host of the glitch art video podcast The Omnia Sol Art Show (also known as TOSAS) as well as the creator of the silent dream narrative comic strip ZZZZZZ. 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.
Anupam Roy writes: “I consider myself as a propagandist, whose objective is not to propagate any preconceived ideology as it is conventionally understood, but the propagation of truth that evolves from people’s movements in India and elsewhere. I consider this as an urgent political and ethical task, as the world in general and India, in particular, are taken over by authoritarian and populist forces, creating conditions for the return of fascism.” Roy received his BFA from Indiri Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, West Bengal (2008) and did post-graduate work in Visual Art at Ambedkar University in New Delhi (2016). He received a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship in 2019 to do work on a second master’s degree at De Montfort University in the UK. His work has been exhibited in India and internationally, including at the 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage at the New Museum in New York. They are the recipient of the 2018 FICA Emerging Artist Award. Their third solo exhibition, Denotified Land, was held at Project 88 in Mumbai in 2019. For the past decade and longer, Amupa Roy has been part of various social and political movements, working with the Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (CPIML)-Liberation, as a campaigner, organizer, and propagandist. He is part of the editorial team of Locust Review and a member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective. “They help me to self-reflectively approach my artistic practice and sociological location,” Roy writes, “creating a space for more discursive and collective engagements questioning the presuppositions of contemporary art and politics.”