Scott Broker talks grief, lust, and loss in his debut novel THE DISAPPOINTMENT with Milo Todd. Read the full interview on our website: www.foglifterjournal.com/the-disappoi...

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Congratulations to @foglifterpress.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! www.foglifterjournal.com

thankful for @foglifterpress.bsky.social for giving this poem a home in Issue 11.1!

idk how to promote my work anymore because I’ve been cursed this year with Circumstances (&such curses) but v thankful for @foglifterpress.bsky.social for giving this poem a home in Issue 11.1 :)

Are you passionate about accessibility and bringing queer literary arts to wider audiences? We're on the search for a captioner to provide closed captioning for past and upcoming recorded events. This is a volunteer position with an honorarium. 👉 Apply by June 1 at foglifter.submittable.com

🌊 The Wilder Constellation of Aliveness: Rob Colgate interview heidi Andrea restrepo rhodes for @foglifterpress.bsky.social | 🌊https://www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-interviews-heidi

🌸 11.1 POETRY sneak peeks from contributors T Bambrick, Lily Daly, Blue Fay, and Eli V. Rahm 🔗 Print issue now available in our shop, while supplies last. www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-11-1

“I have never felt quite Human, and this has taken me down very rich and meaningful paths of reading and kinning with the strange, the creaturely, and the more-than-human..." Read more on our blog: www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-intervie...

The Softest Technology by Azad Namazie: www.foglifterjournal.com/oe-issue-11#... This desktop film weaves together political and spiritual narratives about the trans body as a form of technology that extends the human condition and injects softness into our movements

NOW AVAILABLE in our shop: Foglifter 11.1! www.foglifterjournal.com/home/now-ava... Featuring vital contemporary queer & trans voices in poetry, fiction, & nonfiction. A big thank you to Tai Ericson for our cover art "Ra’Lasia Wright."

🔥 COMING JUNE 2026: ECOLOGY OF THE HOOD by by Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez winner of the 2025 Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize.

We've reached our submission cap for poetry and fiction for print issue 11.2! So no more poetry and fiction submissions for now! If you want to send in creative non-fiction, hybrid, or drama, you have until April 1 when the our call for Issue 11.2 officially closes!

New on the Foglifter blog: Noah Ross in conversation with Evan Kennedy about Evan's novel STALLED DEATH TRAIN 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/noah-ross-in...

Yesterday, @lambdaliterary.org announced the finalists for the 2026 Lammys, and we were OVERJOYED to see some familiar names from our archives! 7 of this year's finalists have had work previously published by Foglifter.

Pleased to have two pieces accepted for this first online issue of @foglifterpress.bsky.social, a queer literary magazine. These pieces explore aspects of identity and embodiment. Radiculopathy Allerleirauh mixed media collage found papers, wax, acrylic #art #artist #artwork #collageart #artsky

We've reached our submission cap for fiction! Thanks to everyone who submitted. If you missed this call, keep an eye out for our next print issue call in the fall. We're accepting works of poetry, CNF, and hybrid & drama up until April 1 so keep on sending us your work at foglifter.submittable.com.

We’re excited to share that Nomadic Press founder J.K. Fowler was appointed president of Foglifter’s board of directors. [image description: a person smiling at the camera with their arms crossed.]

it's yearning time ✨️ Join us on Thursday, April 16 from 6-8:30pm at Blackbird Bookstore (4541 Irving Street, San Francisco, CA) for a closing celebration and reading showcasing new work by emerging writers exploring yearning as a queer and creative necessity.

Erin Noehre reviews Hound Triptych by Dani Janae for the Foglifter blog 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/review-hound...

The wait is over. ✨ Our first ever online exclusives issue is now available on our website. We wanted to showcase queer art that punts the constraints imposed on queer bodies out into the stratosphere and plays with the rules of print media like a jump rope. 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/oe-issue-11

Now available on our site: the ebook for Issue 10.2! We sold out of this issue so quickly that we're upping our print run for Issue 11.1, so thank you for subscribing to Foglifter and supporting queer and trans literature! 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-102

I have a story in this!

Catch my essay "The Moscow Rules," alongside all these incredible writers!

☀️ The ebook for Foglifter 10.1 is now available for free on our website! ☀️ 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-10-1 Thank you to all our contributors and a special thank you to our cover artist Jeffery Sun Young Park!

Call for Submissions: QUEER MYTHOLOGIES: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies. 📌 foglifter.submittable.com

Call for submissions! 📢 Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and art that is cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive. 🔗 foglifter.submittable.com

Sand Bodied Florida Boy is a love song to the first moment you felt believed in, when hope wasn't a question, but an answer in every breath you chose to take. - Grayson Thompson Available in our shop: buff.ly/kGWnb41 Cover Art by Frankie Sanchez

in honor of aquarius season, creative prompts on liberation for your sign. 🌠 ♒ 🏺

This year, we’re trying something new! We’ll be moving up our submission periods by one month: so save the dates and start thinking about what work you might like to send our way! ✨ Print Issue 11.2 ✨ February 1 - April 1, 2026 ✨ Digital Issue 1.2 ✨ February 15 - April 15, 2026

✨ foggie flashback ✨ "it's easily lost, our principle magic" - Arisa White, "We've Been Shaped By Instruments" (Issue 1.1) for the rest of this poem and issue 1.1, check out ebook, available at no cost on our website. www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-11 cover art: Now We’re Strange

📣 Congratulations to our 2025 Start A Riot! Chapbook Contest winner, Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez! 📣 We're excited to publish their chapbook, ECOLOGY OF THE HOOD! 🎉

That's all folks! We're officially sold out of Issue 10.2! 🤠🌵 A very special thanks to our cover artist Anthony Hurd, our guest editors Summer Farah (Poetry), Steven Archer (Fiction), & Noam Keim (Hybrid/Nonfiction); all of our contributors; and the Foglifter team!

✨🎉 Subscribe to our newsletter & share your good literary news! We want to celebrate your work! 🌿🎉 Cheers, Queers! is a celebratory roundup of good news submitted from our Foglifter community. 🔗 buff.ly/P6aLFJG

meet our staff! ✨ Lee Baird recently joined Foglifter's team as print production manager!

"The poems within these pages are like breaths in a chest as it rises and falls: a reminder that life is happening, that within us is its fierce capacity." - Gabrielle Grace Hogan's review of BOY MAYBE by W.J. Lofton buff.ly/UKclG1u

Help lift up the next decade of queer and trans writers with an end-of-year gift or an auto-renew subscription to our journal. That, and other ways to support our work, are linked here: linktr.ee/foglifter

✨ Introducing The Yearning Hour—a poetry workshop for Bay Area LGBTQ+ writers (ages 18–26) led by poet, community birth worker, and Foglifter 7.1 contributor Briana Grogan (she/they).

Anthony Zedan reviews Aaron Shurin’s poetry collection ELIXIR for the Foglifter blog. 🔗 buff.ly/KMgoAWd

🌵 🤠 Our last Issue 10.2 poetry round-up! Including sneak peeks from contributors Joshua Zeitler, Janine Mogannam, Rayan Al-Awar, Ellie Howard, Ranudi Gunawardena, Gray Agpalo, Haley Bossé, marion eames white, and Jenny Molberg. Issue 10.2 is now available! www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-102

Are you a former contributor or guest editor? Submit a short testimonial about your experience with Foglifter and help us share the impact of our community. 🔗 tinyurl.com/foglifterstory

🌵 🤠 ISSUE 10.2 FICTION! Our first round of prose sneak peeks from contributors Molly Olguín, Luke Sutherland, Lane Michael Stanley, Kristen Arnett, and Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira. Issue 10.2 is now available in our shop! www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-102

Celebrating ten years of Foglifter and a decade of LGBTQ+ artists who’ve graced our covers. 💫🌈

#FF It’s Faux Fur Friday! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “F”! @flaremagazine.bsky.social @flashpointsf.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social @flowlitmag.bsky.social @foglifterpress.bsky.social @folklorereview.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

Happy to be on the cover of the new Foglifter!

Thrilled to have my contributor’s copies of @foglifterpress.bsky.social arrive yesterday!! Much love to Chad Koch & the editors—I couldn’t dream of a better home for these poems that are so dear to me. 💙💙

🌵 🤠 Birthday orgies, body scanners, and transition troubleshooting! We've got your cnf/hybrid sneak peeks from Issue 10.2, now available in the Foglifter store: 🔗 foglifterjournal.com/shop Issue 10.2 Cover Art by @anthonyhurd.bsky.social

Are you a student in the Bay Area interested in publishing, promotion, or communications? 💫 Foglifter is seeking a Community Intern who will gain valuable experience in social media marketing, graphic design, and digital content accessibility. More information at 🔗 foglifter.submittable.com

🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize Winner Eduardo Martínez-Leyva! 🎉 We're overjoyed that Eduardo's poem "Mordida" (Foglifter 9.2) was included in "Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses" (2026) which hits bookstores next Tuesday.

💕 Now through December 7, you can vote for up to five literary magazines for Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Literary Magazine Awards. We hope you'll include us in your favs! Link is in our bio. 💕 🔗 chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag-awards