Today on Backlist Lit, I reviewed I Was the Jukebox by Sandra Beasley, one of the best books I've read so far this year: backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/r...

last day! come one come all! 🌊

last day! come one come all! 🌊

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

Two more weeks to submit to WAY DOWNSTREAM! ❤️🌊 fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream

Today on Backlist Lit, I reviewed New Poets of Native Nations, a stunning anthology of contemporary Native American poetry. backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/b...

First up, take a look at "On Tuesday, We Take a Trip to Saturn" by Eleanor Bell. This is a sci-fi poem that leans into familiar imagery to paint vivid pictures: smallwondersmag.com/... 2/6

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

Today on Backlist Lit, I reviewed New Poets of Native Nations, a stunning anthology of contemporary Native American poetry. backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/b...

Issue #2 is live! flashpointsf.com/2026/04/24/i...

last day! come one come all!

are you a GAY PERSON IN MY PHONE who writes about TECH, VIDEO GAMES, MEMES, MISSING VINE, or (most importantly) HATING AI? you have until this sunday to submit to the MOTHERBOARD anthology by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. we would love to read your work!! fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

are you a GAY PERSON IN MY PHONE who writes about TECH, VIDEO GAMES, MEMES, MISSING VINE, or (most importantly) HATING AI? you have until this sunday to submit to the MOTHERBOARD anthology by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. we would love to read your work!! fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

Today on Backlist Lit, a roundup of poetry gems from backlist issues of @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social @rattlepoetry.bsky.social @antiheroinchic.bsky.social and more! 📖❤️ backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/o...

We’ve begun reading for this and are LOVING what you’ve been submitting! Just over a month left ❤️🌊

Today on Backlist Lit, a roundup of poetry gems from backlist issues of @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social @rattlepoetry.bsky.social @antiheroinchic.bsky.social and more! 📖❤️ backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/o...

We’ve begun reading for this and are LOVING what you’ve been submitting! Just over a month left ❤️🌊

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

Read @eleanorball.bsky.social’s incredible review of @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social’s The Visible Field in Cleaver Magazine! 📚💙👇 www.cleavermagazine.com/the-visible-...

Oh so now copyright matters.

This #NationalPoetryMonth, I’m celebrating by sharing a poem I love from an indie-published poetry collection or literary magazine every day! Read on for poems ⬇️

IT’S HERE 🌈💕 the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards Anthology! Working on this last year with the rest of the @monarch.gay team was one of the most fun editorial experiences of my life. Thank you to all the editors who nommed work in our first year. Cheers to more queer art in 2026!

I recently reviewed Zoë Ryder White’s stunning debut, THE VISIBLE FIELD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social 2026), for Cleaver! “White’s poetry is something you feel in your body. Not like a heart attack, but like realizing you are breathing.” www.cleavermagazine.com/the-visible-...

Today on Backlist Lit, a bite-sized review of Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert! (aka, why I keep reading Elisa Gabbert even though I don't like reading Elisa Gabbert. and why you should read her too!) backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/n...

Thanks to Marisca and Myna for shouting out my recent poem in @havenspec.bsky.social, “If I must exist here”! Check out Marisca’s other awesome SFF poetry recs. Love seeing all the love SFF poetry is getting rn! 🔥🖤 havenspec.com/poetry/if-i-...

SUBS NOW OPEN 🌊 Do you ever struggle to place your longer essays or fiction pieces? So do we. So we decided to create an anthology all about celebrating the unique joys & opportunities of long prose. Subs open until 5/15. Come wander way downstream with us ❤️ fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream

Original flash fiction... Original short fiction... Original poetry... Plus interviews with seriously cool people! We published three issues in 2025! Give them a read! psychopomp.com/fantasy/

SUBS NOW OPEN 🌊 Do you ever struggle to place your longer essays or fiction pieces? So do we. So we decided to create an anthology all about celebrating the unique joys & opportunities of long prose. Subs open until 5/15. Come wander way downstream with us ❤️ fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream

Yes yes yes yes yes. Let's celebrate work that exists in the *huge* space between "new and buzzy" and "accepted classic." What a fantastic project @eleanorball.bsky.social!!

Today on Backlist Lit, my first Backlist Lit Mag Roundup. Featuring poetry and fiction gems from @clarkesworldmagazine.com, @heartlines-spec.com, @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social and more ✨ backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/f...

Way Downstream: A Long-Form Prose Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Prose (4,000–10,000 words). #CallforSubmissions

i LOVE this books DO NOT have expiration dates!

yessss!!! I have subscribed! more conversation about not-the-very-newest things <3

the day is HERE! finally sharing the secret project i've been working on since jan... BACKLIST LIT 📖 A blog dedicated to backlist independent literature. the first post (about Edith Wharton and ghost stories!) is up now, and I have a bonus post coming tomorrow! EEEEK! backlistlit.wordpress.com

Huge things happening this weekend! 🌊 Way Downstream opens for submissions. Finish polishing up your long stories & essays. Any genre! fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream 📚 I am launching a secret project I've been working on for MONTHS. Tune in this Saturday for all the deets!! AHHHHH

MONARCH 2026 is out now! 🦋 Buy a print copy of the anthology: fifthwheelpress.shop/products/monarch-2026 Read it online: monarch.gay/monarch-2026/

ICYMI, @havenspec.bsky.social published a new poem of mine last week! 🖤 it’s all about creating care and community in the face of apocalypse havenspec.com/poetry/if-i-...

This month, we’re diving back into the archives with help from Fiction Reader Eleanor Ball. But we didn’t stop there, as we also included a Q&A with Carolene Kurien (outgoing Poetry Editor) and Erin Malone (new Poetry Editor)! Read the full newsletter at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/a-return-t....

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I AM CO-EDITING THIS 🌊💗 Do you ever struggle to place your longer essays or fiction pieces? So do we. So we decided to create an anthology all about celebrating the unique joys & opportunities of long prose. Subs open 3/15-5/15!! Come wander way downstream with us.

motherboard Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for motherboard: all genres. #CallforSubmissions

My poem “If I must exist here” is now free to read in the new issue of Haven Spec! havenspec.com/poetry/if-i-...

Hugos, Locus, Nebs, Small Press, World Fantasy, SFPA, and more... We published three issues in 2025! If you're reading for awards, please give them a glance. Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction - all original, wonderful works! Read something *Fantastic*! psychopomp.com/fantasy/

👀February 2026 Poetry👀 "If I must exist here," is a poem by @eleanorball.bsky.social about hope and apocalypse. Read it as an act of survival in a wounded world. Available in our February issue, due to subscribers on Monday! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

I have a little poem in here about finding love and community and hope in the apocalypse 🖤

time to start vagueposting about TWO new projects …. exciting things happening in march!! (hint: not a new lit mag or a book launch …. a secret third thing 👀)

time to start vagueposting about a new project

today!! happening now!! get em in!! (reprints welcome!!)

"The freedom of floating, cradled by the sea, until I beached on the sands of Babylon. In my palms, the kisses of birds."

book mail!! 😍 @reckoningmag.bsky.social