BIG congrats to manyworlds contribs @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @selizabeth.bsky.social, and Yufan Lu!!!! <3 we love beestung so much.

Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees! em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Yufan Lu sterling-elizabeth arcadia Read their work at beestungmag.com

nat is 100% someone you should be listening to on these topics. Lotta good advice in here!

i wrote this essay in one manic swoop. hope yall enjoy it. open.substack.com/pub/natraum/...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

for the evening crowd

i rarely tease my own substack posts, but i wrote a lengthy essay about publishing that i am pretty proud of, and i'm releasing it for free tomorrow at noon EST. natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"

baltimore, i am ISO one (1) cute cake with relatively short notice (it's for @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social's sixth bday next week). recs?

did not qualify for unemployment this week, if anyone wants to buy a workshop ticket

new workshops just dropped! if you missed the first round of the randomizer, i'm running that again, and then introducing a new workshop on writing place! natraum.com/workshops

performed one of my favorite poems last night: youtube.com/shorts/k20q4...

i'd love a few more signups for this, if anyone wants to write extremely low-stakes poems with me!

i'd love a few more signups for this, if anyone wants to write extremely low-stakes poems with me!

i wrote this poem at a really fraught, vulnerable time in my life that has only intensified in some ways since writing this. it still remains one of my favorite things i have ever written.

POEM 279: "all night i hear the noise of fire licking" by nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social) "the pulse my body so spitefully insists upon is surging and burning and twisting through every vessel and then some like sneaking out like letting go" stonecirclereview.com/all-night/ #Poem #Poetry

hello! my next workshop, THE RANDOMIZER, runs 11/6. it's a generative poetry workshop that focuses on using randomized prompts, forms, and constraints to construct a poem. you'll draft a total of 3! natraum.com/workshops

crashing out! in philadelphia

You can and should advocate for liberation for all oppressed people worldwide. There are multiple genocides and uprisings happening all around us. Anyone telling you to 'pick a struggle' is an op, full stop.

I really enjoyed this lit mag submission workshop by @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social. Lots of others available as well if people are interested. #writingcommunity

🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

Yall!! Join this workshop!! I don't want it canceled 😭

gone lawn is one of my favorite mags out there. please consider donating!

hey all, registration for this workshop tonight is pretty low and i may end up having to cancel. would love to see some more faces!

i wrote about drinking, google searches, and how every time there's a fish kill in the inner harbor my life is falling apart. it's now in @bruisermag.com for your perusal

this is the lesser-known sixth stage of grief: distraction. Three new poems from @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/raum_threepo...

it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines! natraum.com/workshops

it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines! natraum.com/workshops

nevertheless, their book was added to goodreads

🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨 💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP Appetite! Impulse! Desire! 🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️

re-sharing because workshops are the best <3 www.natraum.com/workshops

PRINTS are now on le site in bundles of 3 (they are bebé prints) www.natraum.com/shop/p/digic...

today's humble plea to help me put gas in my vehicle? unemployment dollars are in sight and i promise i won't have to beg so hard soon natraum.com/workshops

for newbies and veterans alike, this workshop breaks down the nitty gritty of how and why i submit to literary magazines. it's very helpful, according to my students who have received most of this advice already. natraum.com/workshops to sign up

huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬 genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

my poem co-authored with @lowermelody.bsky.social was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

hi does anyone in baltimore have a simple lighting setup i could use to photograph 2 books for my portfolio? the catch: i need to do so this weekend

"There is a grittiness in the words raum presents—an earthiness that lingers in the mind" - Saturn Browne, author of BLOODPATHS salt box nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/saltbox eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/saltbox

awp-goers, if you love queer literature, you best hold thursday night, because @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is planning something delicious

Evil's Soft First Touches

hi folks, i'm here to plug my workshops again. even if you have no experience doing any of these things, they will be very fun and you should sign up for one or maybe all of them.

i can't be the only person who spent time in station north from 2015–2019 who viscerally associates "running up that hill" with the club charles

took a nice little salt bath tonight and then promptly sobbed all that salt back out 🥲

made some extremely adorable, extremely tiny books tonight at a workshop and i am THRILLED ok

i have been caught up in life and didn't realize that my first week and change of selections for @sundresspub.bsky.social's The Wardrobe have gone live! thanks to Merrick Sloane for the chance to make these picks—there's some really outstanding poetry coming your way soon. sundressblog.com

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live? tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

icymi, i lost my job and am running some workshops to make money to uh, live? tickets for the first run of THE RANDOMIZER are up now at natraum.com/links. the rest are coming soon!

"The beauty of friendship (and the similarly-weighted tragedy of its dissolution) as a young adult is something I am intimately familiar with, and [Patterson's] poem captured it so beautifully," writes nat raum. Read (and listen) to their full entry on our site: www.verseofapril.com/nat-raum

LOVE IT! 🖤

me reading "okay" (originally pubbed in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social) youtu.be/ryWxJoe0wAs?...

SGP is thrilled to share our BoN nomnomnoms for 2026! This is our 1st year in the comp circuit, & though we have complex feelings about comps, we know how special these accolades are to our literary friends. We love to love and champion these flockers & ALL of our contributors!