One thing’s no joke: funding for the arts across the US has taken a massive hit. That’s why we have partnered with Bay Area queer and trans comedians for a night of laughter and community, all in support of publishing bold queer and trans literature. Get your tickets now! 🔗 tinyurl.com/queer-comedy

🎉Announcing Foglifter's 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees! 🎉 Congratulations to all the nominees, and thank you for making Foglifter a home for your work!

happy pub day to TERRY DACTYL by @mbsycamore.bsky.social! 🎉(and s/o to @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 🎉) Mattilda was interviewed by @todd-milo.bsky.social for the Foglifter blog: 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/terry-dactyl...

We have reached our submission cap for POETRY for issue 11.1 ✨THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED✨ Submissions for hybrid/non-fiction remain open for one more day💐🌈🤍 🥰

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: QUEER COMEDY FUNDRAISER. Hosted by none other than @baruchporrashernandez. 📍THE STUD 🗓️ Sunday, NOVEMBER 16, from 7-9pm| Doors at 6:15pm There will be comedy, there will be queer and trans fabulousness, and you will get to support your favorite magazine.

Mark your calendars for our QUEER COMEDY FUNDRAISER. Hosted by none other than Baruch Porras Hernandez . 📍THE STUD (@studsf) 🗓️ Sunday, NOVEMBER 16, from 7-9pm| Doors at 6:15pm Tickets available on a sliding scale at www.eventbrite.com/e/foglifter-...

"What we create are the counter narratives to what they will say about this time in history. They’re already trying to rewrite and erase in real time..." — Taylor Byas interviewed by Margot Douaihy for the Foglifter blog about RESTING BITCH FACE, (Soft Skull Press, 2025) ! 💖 <3

We have reached our submission cap for FICTION for issue 11.1 ✨THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED✨ Submissions for poetry and hybrid/non-fiction remain open💐🌈🤍 🥰 submission 🔗 in the bio.

Yesterday, @lambdaliterary announced the winners of the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 🌈 🏆🎉 With eleven former Foglifter contributors nominated across seven categories, we're OVERJOYED that FOUR of those contributors have been selected as winners. Congratulations, y'all! #Lammys2025

Grayson Thompson on gators, geography, and his new release A CONGREGATION OF ALLIGATORS with @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social on the Foglifter blog 🐊 🔗 foglifterjournal.com/grayson-thompson-interview

Hey SF, come here me read some new work at The Stud on 10/16 with @foglifterpress.bsky.social

Foglifter is celebrating ten years of groundbreaking queer and trans writing at @litquake.org and we hope to see you there! 🎉🌈 📅 Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 7-9 PM | Doors open at 6 PM 📍The Stud @ 1123 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA 🎟️ Register here: buff.ly/N5t9VBE

We'll be joining our other small press friends at @litquake.org's newly revived Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens this weekend! We hope to see you there. 📅 Sunday September 28, 2025 from 11:00am - 4:00pm 📍Yerba Buena Gardens (761 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) 📍 litquake2025.sched.com

Next Friday: Writers With Drinks returns to San Francisco! It's your chance to hear some incredible queer and trans writers. Caro de Robertis Michal "MJ" Jones Frida Sierra Annalee Newitz Charlie Jane Anders Renée Swindle 7 PM at Strut, 470 Castro. FREE, donation requested. Masks required 😷😻

🍃 It's the season for submissions, and Foglifter has several opportunities open for your literary work🍃 foglifter.submittable.com/submit 📌 Foglifter Online Exclusive Issue 1.1 (Aug 15 - Oct 15) 📌 Foglifter Journal Print Issue 11.1 (Sept 1 - Nov 1) 📌 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize (Sept 1 - Dec 1)

Foglifter is officially open for submissions for Issue 11.1! Calling all #queer and #trans writers to send us their most transgressive, tender, and imaginative work. ✨⁠⁠🌈⁠ foglifter.submittable.com/submit

📣 Calling all QTBIPOC+ poets in the greater Bay Area*📣 Submissions for the Start a Riot! chapbook prize open on September 1! ⭐winner receives: publication, $3000, and $1000 for book tour⭐ more info here on Sept 1: buff.ly/OkLaUPE

"John Birdsall’s new book "What is Queer Food?" illuminates another under examined avenue that brings queer communities together: the simple art of making delicious food." A conversation with @johnbirdsall.bsky.social and @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social: www.foglifterjournal.com/john-birdsal...

"The world is so precarious right now it feels hard to want—so much of what we want isn’t allowed...And I think the lack of want is akin to our loss of intimacy. We are reliant upon desire, but it’s also terrifying to want." Nini Berndt in conversation with Jules Fitz Gerald" buff.ly/iaqmdKN

Hello friends! What are you reading this week? 👀

Are you signed up for our newsletter? 👀 You might be missing out on some good literary news! CHEERS, QUEERS! is our new roundup of the latest publications, awards, and other literary wins submitted by members of the Foglifter community. Join the party: mailchi.mp/foglifterpre...

"When you look into the past, you realize that the world has been ending for many people since the dawn of time, and that there's always been activists, organizers, people on the outskirts of society organizing who’re finding community and ways to resist." - Jonathan Parks-Ramage buff.ly/mDX3KRD

@lambdaliterary.org recently announced the finalists for the 2025 Lammys, and we were OVERJOYED to see some familiar names from our archives! 11 of this year's finalists have had work previously published by Foglifter (including 4 out of 5 finalists in the Transgender Poetry category). #Lammys2025

📣 Foglifter is adding an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ISSUE to its annual publication roster. 📣 For 1.1, our theme is Body Politics. Submissions are open until October 15, but we love early submissions. foglifter.submittable.com/submit

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A new online exclusive on our blog: "Tempering Nostalgia: A Conversation with Christopher Tradowsky" with many thanks to Paul Klein! 🎥 @ptklein.com www.foglifterjournal.com/christopher-...

📣 Foglifter is currently looking for a collaborative, deadline-driven, Adobe-savvy individual to join our team as print production manager! 📣 📅 2-4 hrs/week during non-production times and 8-10 hrs/week during production times 💸$5000 honorarium for year Apply at foglifter.submittable.com

Happy non-binary day and week! We're a small mag publishing non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers. If you'd like to help us out, we're currently working towards our goal for paying writers for this and next year. Shares are very much appreciated, too! www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

Thanks for including us! ❤️ Check out this entire thread for more friends to follow. 🌱 #FF

🗨️ INTERVIEW: Everything Is Built on Corpses, and Still We Bloom | A Conversation with Delilah McCrea by Noor Hindi 🌱 www.foglifterjournal.com/delilah-mccr... @noorhindi.bsky.social @transdelilah.bsky.social

Bay Area friends, join our friends at The Queer Ancestors Project and Still Here SF for a night of community and new work inspired by our queer and trans ancestors. ✨🌱 📅 July 1, 2025 at 6:45pm 📍Strut, 470 Castro Street

There's lots to enjoy about our latest issue, including this lovely poem by @jayekranz.bsky.social 😍🌱💜

Great opportunity for queer nature writers! 🌱🦋

"I dare you to not be absolutely delighted" @literaryhub.bsky.social did a podcast with our founding two members and they have called it ROLLICKING oh God I don't know if I can listen to this YOU CAN THOUGH lithub.com/the-lit-hub-...

@5calls.org time.

We love them too 💜🌱

Thrilled to collaborate with VIDA for custom masks for events for Hardly Creatures by Rob Macaisa Colgate — a celebration of diversity, accessibility + inclusivity where everyone felt cared for and valued!𓆈💗✨ Read more about Rob's poetry collection: bit.ly/HardlyCreatu...

This is why we march for Pride, lest our names be erased; lest our achievements be forgotten. We lift up Harvey's name, and Marsha P Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Matthew Shepard, Brandon Teena and all those unnamed and each of our queer selves. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

💯 Every day is a great day for trans fiction. Thanks for including THE LILAC PEOPLE by our co-editor-in-chief @todd-milo.bsky.social 😍

happy trans march day from San Francisco! find a dyke march, join a trans march, find a kink ride and get naked. in all the best corners pride is still a riot.

Thanks to the Scalzi Family Foundation @scalzifamily.foundation @scalzi.com, the next $1,000 pledged in our fund drive will be matched dollar for dollar, so donating right now has double the impact!

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Omigosh, hello new followers! 😍 Thanks for joining us here on Bluesky. 🦋 A favor: can you help us find the queer writers, poets, and fellow lit mags we should be following? Reply with your favs, and let's see if we can get a good resource thread going. 🌱

Support queer presses and journals! @foglifterpress.bsky.social is a great one.

Yessss!!! Thank you so much for sharing these photos! 😍 It was a great night of queer writing and queer authors! 🌈🌱 Gathering together to share in creative community is so important in times like these. 🌻

Thank you for your support! 💞 🌻 If you can, folks who wish to help can spread the word, buy copies of our issues/chapbooks, or make a gift to us and/or and the many literary mags and orgs affected by these cuts in solidarity. 🌱

from Foglifter, 'Mother-Daughter' by Lenna Mendoza

For Foglifter I got to explore old hollywood glamour, the excruciating banalities of horniness and nude author photos with Patrick Nathan.

Yes, thrilled to review RIPCORD by Nate Lippens, for Foglifter, happy pub day to this brilliant book!!🌹"RIPCORD is dotted with aphorisms and studded with boisterous insight..."💥 foglifterjournal.com/2024/10/22/r...