happy new year! submissions to both GARLAND and our blog are open starting today

for the night crowd

new "hard pills to swallow" out today natraum.substack.com/p/hard-pills...

at last, my last piece of the year is live and i can share my @romyewing.bsky.social-style collage one line from every single piece i had published this year 😅 photo is from the @bruisermag.com outlaw mudshow

“There’s a responsible way to use AI” “There’s a responsible way to pay more for electricity, poison Black people, and encourage teens to kill themselves”

prayers up for my fantasy championship, thx

my two babies had a baby. i am a grandparent

hi hive mind, where are we sending craft essays these days? this one is about 3k and mostly discusses poetry

Happy shortlist day! Today, TFR recognizes five excellent works of poetry for our Best Transfeminine Poetry 2025 award, as voted upon by our readers. Help us celebrate transfeminine literature! Voting ends on December 26th at 11:59pm EST, so there's still plenty of time to weigh in 🩷

decided to bless your new year's eve with a new essay in my series of publishing essays, "hard pills to swallow." subscribe to get essay #2 in your inbox on 12/31! natraum.substack.com/p/hard-pills...

friendly reminder: i made a spreadsheet for 2026 poetry releases and you should add yours!

every time nat gets one of these emails, an angel gets their wings duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

❄ The Games Room ❄ 9 pieces, frosty fun, wrap up warm! Thanks to @ella-b-winters.bsky.social @amythfromassam.bsky.social Lisa Perkins @marisca.bsky.social Mark Valentine Simon Ravenscroft Johanna E. Hall @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social Ilias Tsagas www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...

friendly reminder: i made a spreadsheet for 2026 poetry releases and you should add yours!

tell me about your books, i want to read them docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

more from last night's FRUITCAKE youtube.com/shorts/De0d9...

more from last night's FRUITCAKE youtube.com/shorts/De0d9...

"i wish i had carved they into my right breast, them into my left, and worn my deepest v-neck. i wish i had found a vessel for all this wrath" - nat raum, poem from my deathbed @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline

this is my early plug: if you are in town for AWP, you MUST come to my queer reading series, FRUITCAKE, on march 5. ottobar upstairs, 6:30pm, hella gay writing. www.youtube.com/shorts/SWLS1...

Best Of 2025: News baltimorebeat.com/best-of-2025...

FRUITCAKE #7 this thursday....... first time in forever i've actually featured at this bad boy

a trans (book) for all seasons kithbooks.com @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social @nivikthejackal.bsky.social @le-transexual.bsky.social

i made a non-sarcastic "i love baltimore" sticker if anyone cares

this is a transphobe hate account btw

this is not real publishing do not agree to this

Artists from Maryland is proud to announce that we are starting our inaugural digital microchapbook series! The first collection comes from the wonderful nat raum (@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social). Check out totaled at the link in our bio!

welcome to our two newest wheels, absolute POWER HITTERS and fwp repeat contributors @whoastanderson.bsky.social and @eleanorball.bsky.social!

microdosing living in the 13th century by saying things like "i need to go up the road to my friend's shop tomorrow and get more sycamore bark"

Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k! Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects. This #Spotlight is on nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social!

you're in his dms. i see you gather before me, hungry, terrified, clutching your babes to your breast. we are not the same.

ICYMI: our Fall 2025 Digital Lit issue is now available to read! blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/fall-...

Today in Some Words: a poem by nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social somewords.boards.net/thread/17/na...

feel like i am in some sort of infinite-lap baby park situation

I think straight and cis people really have no idea what things are like out there for the rest of us. I’ve received minimum one paper Like That per year since I started teaching, if not one or more per semester, all of which contained varying degrees of blunt hate speech directed *at me* lmao

7 slots left! secure yours now!

Our 2025 Autumn anthology is out now! This volume features 56 contributors across all genres. As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so do read with care. Big thanks to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for guest editing, and everything always ✨ link in bio

if you're on the fence: the sale of these anthologies does a lot. this year, profits from 1 full-price anth sale are able to pay 3 contributors to next year's publications!

this is such a fucking steal. working with nat is a treat, so don’t miss your chance to do so on the cheap!

trying to post here more, so bringing this thread here: navigate my witcher 3 playthrough using only quest titles

friendly reminder: i have 8 more poetry chapbook consult slots open still! please hit me up; i'm trying to pay for as much of a really expensive prescription as i can while still out of work/insurance.

beestung is doing such incredible and important things for queer writers and you bet @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is about to put their money where their mouth is after hitting send

idk if i ever posted it here, but i have a new (free!) micro up with whittle micro-press whittlemicropress.com/publications...

that's my CHILD

pssssssssst our 2025 print anth is available for preorder ahead of its 12/17 release 👀 fifthwheelpress.shop/products/fwp...

wondering which of my books would make great gifts? trick question: all of them do natraum.substack.com/p/holiday-gi...

wondering which of my books would make great gifts? trick question: all of them do natraum.substack.com/p/holiday-gi...

tl;dr i am offering up to 9 people a very cut-rate manuscript consult to pay for vital prescription drugs

"If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix." - Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline