HVNGRY for more by Valerie Reding | Call for Submissions: FLASH

• HVNGRY for more by Valerie Reding

• Issue 52 Pride Issue Highlights 🏳️‍🌈

• Call for Submissions | Special Summer Editions: FLASH ⚡

Valerie Reding, Bruna, digital photograph, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

“Welcome to our pantheon of queer icons, where otherness, diversity and vulnerability are nurtured, shared and celebrated. We are HVNGRY for more — hungry for more tolerance, more respect, more freedom, more visibility, more protection, more rights, more solidarity and more love!”

HVNGRY for more is a series of portraits that I created in 2021, celebrating queer people with diverse bodies, cultural and social backgrounds, sexualities, gender identities and their various expressions. Strongly inspired by the aesthetics “camp”, pop culture and video game, I created their heroine-alter-egos, exploring alternative representations of QTBIPoC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Color) — far beyond gender binaries or other alienating social categorisations….

Continue HVNGRY for more.

Valerie Reding is a choreographer, performer and transdisciplinary artist based in Luxembourg and Switzerland. After their training in classical ballet and modern dance in Luxembourg, they studied Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and Media Arts at the Universities of the Arts in Zurich (ZHdK) and Vienna (Angewandte). Besides their academic studies, they worked internationally as a makeup artist in fashion, and explored the art of drag in San Francisco’s and Zurich’s nightlife.

Today, they incorporate all these experiences into their eclectic artistic practice combining and oscillating between movement, performance, photography, video, text and installation. They work independently as well as collaboratively in varying contexts ranging from alternative and underground spaces to theaters, galleries and other cultural institutions.

Intrigued by the complex entanglements of the body, human psychology, interpersonal relationships and the systems of oppression that permeate our societies and identities, Valerie Reding explores the potential of vulnerability, auto-fiction, togetherness, transformation and camp to work on questions around subjectivity and relationality with an intersectional approach.

They have performed at festivals like La Bâtie (Geneva), zürich moves!, Zürich Tanzt, World Expo 2020 (Dubaï), The Queer Biennial II (Los Angeles), FdS - Festival artistique des affects, des genres et des sexualités (Lausanne), Superball (Amsterdam) and Queer Little Lies (Luxembourg) as well as at theaters like Rote Fabrik (Zurich), Tanzhaus Zürich, Dampfzentrale (Bern), Arsenic (Lausanne), Théâtre St. Gervais (Geneva), Counterpulse (San Francisco), Le 140 (Brussels) and Escher Theater (Luxembourg). Their works have been shown in galleries such as Istituto Svizzero (Milan), Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles), Casino - Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Last Tango (Zurich), Kulturfolger (Zurich), FORMA Art Contemporain (Lausanne) and LAC (Vevey).

• Orion by LJ Jensen

• HVNGRY for more by Valerie Reding

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This summer, we’re returning to a favorite seasonal series: three themed Summer Special Editions, each shaped around a single word. There is one remaining call:

Send us your shortest writing—fiction, micro-essays, poetry, fragments, dispatches. We’re talking itty-bitty, under 500 words. This is open to writers only, but we do encourage you to include links to your own artwork if you’re multi-talented like that.

Deadline: Friday, July 10, 2026

Writers, send us your words

Artists, send us your links

• Submissions for FLASH are open now and close July 10, 2026.

• We welcome emerging and established voices—poetry, short prose (maximum 2K), hybrid forms, visual art, and unclassifiable experiments.

• Submit up to 3 pieces per theme.

• In your note, please mention the name of the issue the work is intended for: Pride, Heat, Flash.

• Maximum 500 words for Flash.

• Previously unpublished work only, please. Simultaneous submissions are fine—just keep us in the loop if your piece has been accepted by another publication when we reach out.

• We have a strict no-AI policy for all submissions.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride!

Leigh

Leigh Hopkins
Editor and Curator, KHÔRA