TAKE IT OUTSIDE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUERY & TRANS DESIRE "You set the final bag on the chair and sink next to me, thighs touching. The closeness is electric." - Ryder West, The Shower kithbooks.com/shop/p/takeitoutside

we're going to be tabling for the 18+ night at the Big Gay Market in Madison, WI next month which means our most daring authors are cooking up merch. keep your eyes on this space if you feel some kind of way about...uhh...books. come out and say hi if you're in the Midwest www.thebiggaymarketllc.com

it is within us all to leave each spring (trans)formed kithbooks.com

if you're not able to join us, you'll still get access to all the cool merch. watch for shop updates as we get them ready.

May 19, 2026

Welcoming our new Folio Editors, Shon Mapp & Jie V. Cohen! ANMLY's folios are themed sections included in our issues. From Autistic Protest Poetry to Queering the Nigerian Divine to Outside Roe, and more! We're open for Folio pitches for future issues: anmly.org/calls

lighting a candle for all trans people to live fucking long lives and get old as fuck and happy and comfortable and satisfied

take a walk through the house of memory with heat death of the universe by leela raj-sankar -sadee

if you're not able to join us, you'll still get access to all the cool merch. watch for shop updates as we get them ready.

it is within us all to leave each spring (trans)formed kithbooks.com

we're going to be tabling for the 18+ night at the Big Gay Market in Madison, WI next month which means our most daring authors are cooking up merch. keep your eyes on this space if you feel some kind of way about...uhh...books. come out and say hi if you're in the Midwest www.thebiggaymarketllc.com

May 18, 1026

Author copies of “Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance” arrived today, and they look BEAUTIFUL. Grab your copy before the first printing runs out: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @stanchion.bsky.social

whenever someone tells me what a chatbot said i feel myself die a little bit on a number of levels all at once

thanks!!! 😊 on my best days I aspire to 'STATUESQUE successful angel' but lately it's honestly mostly 'hold me you goddamn idiots'

all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:

We want you(r soilpunk visions)! ✍️💭📚 Tractor Beam is now open for submissions. For our sixth issue, we’re looking for stories about the role of water in soil, growth, land, and ecosystems large and small. We pay $1,000 for all accepted stories. Learn more below👇 #opencall #scifi #climatefiction

I understand that this author is celebrating her birthday today. If you're into dystopian urban magick fiction, you might consider both "Cascade" and "Blight" as your next reads...

"rain fills the footprints that march down the broad avenue / a trail of reflecting pools in which pigeons duck and drink / and the nightwoke racoons wash their meals" 🫀The brilliant Frances Klein (@fklein907.bsky.social) has three new poems in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...

While we aren't open for submissions, we are looking for strange/surreal manuscripts in translation. Anything under 200 pages. The weirder, the better. DM us.

May 16, 2026

After inventing and then co-producing Fidonet, Tom Jennings went off to the natural next step - founding a queer punk skater zine called HOMOCORE. He has gathered up all his memories and most of the printed material into a book you can buy now: fluke.bigcartel.com/product/homo...

We have received 156 manuscript submissions so far 📚💙 We read every one! #poetry #booksky duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable offers mundane minutia stacked moment by moment till one day it tips. Becomes love. Becomes memory. Apple dolls & zucchini, snow squalls & shut roads & hard earned shared laughs. Stores laid up against winter, against debt, against death. kithbooks.com/shop/p/shelfstable

May 15, 2026

i love emailing an author to say we've sold out

Are you constructing your summer reading list for those long hot summer days ahead of us? Want some beach reading or house reading or just reading at the coffee shop? Consider a book of poems! Specifically the book of poetry I wrote! Check it out today!

NDR's SWARM seeks divinity amid the violence of gendered society, a reward for those among us who walk their own path. Gender exploration and creation as explosion, as expansion, as primal expansion of self across space. @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/swarm

this body BESPOKE kithbooks.com/merch

Douglas Stuart's John of John easily the most beautiful book I've read all year app.thestorygraph.com/books/f3911b...

May 15, 2026

new interview up with Haley Bossé! fifthwheelpress.com/blog/bosse-a...

Way Downstream: A Long-Form Prose Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ will be closing to submissions soon for Prose (4,000–10,000 words). #CallforSubmissions

beestung is now accepting new work for The Pleasure Issue, interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through all genres (and art!). We can't wait to read what you've got for us! 👄🐝✨ More information: beestungmag.com/special-call...

Douglas Stuart's John of John easily the most beautiful book I've read all year app.thestorygraph.com/books/f3911b...

"I’m not positive at all about the science but I know that we’re still testing bombs on people we’re supposed to love" - K Angel, After Ithaka coming June 21 preorder yours now kithbooks.com/shop/p/doubletext

"easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash" THE DEATH OF THE CULT CLASSIC by @kblair.bsky.social is open for preorder kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic

Bread & Roses, yes. but always also coffee. kithbooks.com/merch

Grief Is Not Shelf Stable offers mundane minutia stacked moment by moment till one day it tips. Becomes love. Becomes memory. Apple dolls & zucchini, snow squalls & shut roads & hard earned shared laughs. Stores laid up against winter, against debt, against death. kithbooks.com/shop/p/shelfstable

TFW you are taking a group program with your psychiatrist and in your 1:1 session you mention that something he explained to the group was really really helpful and he says “I added that part because of you.” See all my medical influence in Multimorbid out May 28 www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/multi...

Love the blurb for this: “This book masterfully reveals how the jammed guillotine, the derailed train, and the misfired missile truly shape our world. Elegant, essential, and profoundly disruptive: a truly innovative insight on how technology actually happens." ebbooksellers.com/item/Jt0yuxc...

check out this whole dang issue! also please do listen to this one aloud:

i don't think we're talking enough about how important it is to get yourself into a primarily (if not exclusively) trans space now and then. a concert, a reading, a house party, etc. it's life saving to see your people happy and real and alive.

Jennifer Blessing

one last ticket just opened up for the workshop due to a participant cancellation! happening this saturday at 6pm eastern!

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

it's CULT CLASSIC day!!! "easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash" ‍ ‍ - K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic

Happy Pub Day! Thank you to @kithbooks.bsky.social for helping a dream become a reality, to @theoldkyokodied.bsky.social for the amazing cover art and to everyone who has ordered a copy, it means so much to have your support 🎥

it's CULT CLASSIC day!!! "easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash" ‍ ‍ - K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic