Thank you to @tapintopoetry.bsky.social for giving "The Feat of Survival" A home. Check it out: tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t...

Really excited to have a new poem in The @sanantoreview.bsky.social The San Antonio Review. sanantonioreview.org/2026/03/26/u...

“Another ‘un-strange fruit’ lies at the bottom of the tree.” A stark, necessary poem on violence, memory, and what we choose to grow next. Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/03/26/u... #poetry #socialjustice #BLM #writing #art #poem

Keshed — @stuhennigan.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/18/k...

"Now you feel what we have survived. And the question is not whether you empathize. The question is what you will do next." Read the #OpEd from second-year MD-PhD student and writer Naa Asheley Ashitey at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/119906?trw=no

Thank you again to @medpagetoday.com and @gfriedman.bsky.social Friedman for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on the medical and scientific community’s reaction to the murder of Alex Pretti, and to open a broader discussion about the need for an internal reckoning within medicine

thank you to Voces for giving these three pieces a home and translating them into Spanish as well! Making my writing more accessible is always a goal of mine so I'm excited to work with a magazine that allows that goal to come to life: www.voces.org.mx/naa-asheley-...

so excited to have this piece out with @burialmagazine.bsky.social. grateful to Z to giving my work a home, especially with all the amazing work published in Burial, so I'm very grateful my work can be published alongside many others <3 burialmagazine.neocities.org/whatisitlike...

I am so excited to have a piece out with the @cincinnatireview.bsky.social . This piece means a lot to me and publishing in Cincinnati Review has been a dream come true. Thank you again to Andy and Lisa for giving this piece a home. I’m so honored

also thank you to Schuylkill Valley Journal for featuring this piece in their most recent print issue. it's a very timely love letter for Black academics who know the feeling of having to navigate "being too intelligent" and not "intelligent" enough: static1.squarespace.com/static/60ece...

I have a new piece up with @eunoiareview.bsky.social. I still can't believe I can type this out. only took 26 tries lmao. a small prose poem/prose piece I wrote when I was missing SF and reflecting on my time there one night. Thank you again to Ian!! eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/l...

oh wow, I'm so honored, thank you so much

thank you to @medpagetoday.com today and @gfriedman.bsky.social for giving me and Jared a chance to talk more about why animal research is important still in scientific research! www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

so honored to be in the 1st issue of Dodo Eraser. Check out my piece and all the amazing pieces and artists published in this 1st issue: dodoeraser.org/2026/01/14/s...

These three poems by Naa Asheley Ashitey focus on what we start to notice — or miss — as things come to an end, and what we hope will change when the end arrives: acrossthemargin.com/three-poems-... #poems #poetry

thank you to @acrossthemargin.bsky.social for giving these three poems a home. Check them out: acrossthemargin.com/three-poems-...

Thank you to Tyger Quarterly for publishing these two pieces. Really excited to have them out. tygerquarterly.com/Naa-Asheley-...

My final piece for 2025 and it’s an op-ed :). In response to the changes in professional degree classification, I wanted to write about what I felt was being lost in the discourse: that once again, minoritized students, especially low-income students....

End of 2025, aka a bunch of poetry posts finally coming home. Big thank you to @thebrusselsreview.bsky.social for giving these four pieces a home. Check them out: thebrusselsreview.com/naa-asheley-...

Poem "Work Orders" by Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey “Yesterday, I accidently tripped on that annoying part of the stairway that has now accumulated eight different work orders.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/work-...

The light is on for Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey! @foreverasheley.bsky.social💡 “I have to wash my pillowcase twice a week because I hate the smell of my tears” is a profoundly moving and urgent poem, leaping forward with a striking intention. Check out her gorgeous writing over at the site!

Check out our latest poem, Despite what Mitski said, I still think that this land is hospitable, by Naa Asheley Ashitey 👀 📖 🌎 #queerlit #poetry #lgbtqia #literaryjournal #read #write #literature

Noms for BSF 2026 @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats & good luck! * Cutie With the... by Janel Comeau * I Ran Into Your New Girlfriend... by Nora Wagner * On the bright side… by Naa Asheley Ashitey * Rotting by Jamie Vincent * The Air by Nicole Callihan The Marionette by Ivan Niccolai made 𝐁𝐒𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓!

Excited to have these three pieces out. Thank you to Michigan City Review of Books for giving g these poems a home. Check them out: mcrb.neocities.org/ThreePoems_N...

Thank you so much for giving this piece another home. Appreciate places like @bulbculture.bsky.social making sure folks can still repost their work when the original places may have gone down/gone away

today is full of announcements, I have another piece out in AUTOCORRECT. I wrote this piece on the way to my MSTP retreat and I clearly had a lot of feelings that day for some reason lol. Really honored to have it out: www.autocorrectmag.com/02/ashitey.h...

I've wanted this piece out for so long and it was rejected so many times I almost completely gave up submitting it. So it means a lot having it out. Here is a very vulnerable but healing poem I wrote titled "When the Bell Rings for the Last Time" www.twinbirdreview.com/32---p---ash...

Also have this short micro poem piece out in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social . Didn't realize it came out awhile ago (oops), but I really love this piece. Another visceral piece but it's honest. Check it out: www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/work-...

Excited to have a new piece out in AC|DC. It is def on the "spicer" side but it became a favorite of mine and I'm happy it finally has a home: www.acdclit.com/ashitey-naa

Thank you to Discount Guillotine for giving this piece a home: www.discountguillotine.com/journal/naa-...

Thank you to MedPage Today @Genevieve Friedman for giving me a platform to share this important topic and hopefully remind physicians and healthcare staff the field that we love, is still complicit and engaging in much harm especially towards Black woman. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

thank you to Rundelania for publishing this piece. Really proud of it: rundelania.com/9325-2/

"There are already enough barriers pushing marginalized students out of medicine. Let's make sure hunger isn't one of them." In an #OpEd, second-year MD-PhD student Naa Asheley Ashitey discusses the impact of SNAP benefit cuts. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118288?trw=no

Thank you to MedPage Today for giving me a place to share this op-ed and important topic. @medpagetoday.com @gfriedman.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Canvas is down so that means I’m writing poetry instead of prepping for clinical skills lmao

Thank you Taylor and Brawl Lit for accepting this piece and giving me a chance to share a bit more about myself. Crazy to think how I wrote this back in July/august, and how much more relevant it has gotten. CW for lynching related imagery. www.brawllit.com/2025/naa-ash...

I’ve had a long love hate relationship with my skin. Still do. But I’m much better at admitting my faults and vices than I used to. Thank you to the Inflectionist Review for giving this piece I began writing a few years ago a home. www.inflectionism.com/21-naa-ashel...

Read more by @foreverasheley.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

still can't believe I have a poem out in Hobart. Thank you again to Elizabeth. Check it out: www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

I remember the night I wrote this piece, something overcame me and instead of crying, the tears I would’ve shed became these words instead. Thank you to Abstract Magazine for giving me a space to share thoughts that might not be pretty, but they’re honest abstractmagazinetv.com/2025/08/27/i...

I actually can’t believe I’m announcing this but I will have a piece coming out in Hobart!!!! This has been a dream publication of mine forever and I can’t believe it’s happening. Can’t wait to share it with you all once it’s out. Big thank you to Elizabeth for accepting this piece!!!

Do I hate the meme-ification of politics and how it continues to be a form of allowing political leaders to effectively ignore how their policies are oppressing marginalized groups, yes. is life depressing and I kinda want to see the girls drag each other online...also yes

if I've learned anything from immuno research and my 1st week of of I&D, IL-6 sucks lol

FGLI Students deserve to be in medicine. I'm really excited to officially launch this resource page to help support students right now trying to figure out pursuing medicine in light of recent federal bills. Love to my Greater FGLI Family. www.naaashitey.com/fgli-in-medi...

The B'K Vol 16, Issue 3 launches on July 1! It features poetry by Arnav Ghai, Aspen Greenwood, Ayiyi Joel, @poetloz.bsky.social, James Roach, MARIE ANNE ARREOLA, @foreverasheley.bsky.social, Nicolò Potestà, @raynealarcio.bsky.social, Rumi Sidhu Petersen, @fruitbatwoman.bsky.social, Tendai Nombulelo.

A real snappy, real snapshot from @foreverasheley.bsky.social now up with JAKE: jakethemag.com/untitled-3/

I never thought I'd ever get to say this but I have a piece in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social <3 I wrote this back in 2020 and though it feels sorta dark that it could've been written yesterday, I'm happy to have this piece out to the world in one of my dream journals <3 jakethemag.com/untitled-3/

To the white women in and not in my life, let this piece educate you, and begin to make change. Do not wait for another Supreme Court ruling or executive order to finally take action. The ball is in your court. Time for you to take the shots. www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2025/05/essa...

Thank you to Maddie from Channel 3 Madison for chatting with about the impact bills that aim to limit federal student loans has on low-income med students. Love to my FGLI family. FGLI students deserve to be in higher education, period. www.channel3000.com/news/higher-...

I have so many things on my mind thinking about my first year of med school that I’ll write out into a op-ed something later, but I’ll say this: it’s very interesting how uncomfortable my non-FGLI peers get in acknowledging their privilege and the steps that they will take to maintain it