Also… I need to post here more. Hi miss u love u 👋🏼👋🏼

Congrats to the JAKE BOTN noms, esp @gavinopoet.bsky.social who submitted to DONT TXT UR EX last year xxx it’s a big hitter

We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.

Unsure if tattoos and a haircut will really save me but I’m gonna try and find out

Btw everyone is gorgeous and talented and you should go download all their books.

Comin over here to to say if you have been wondering whether the birds in your backyard might be a little fruity, I have the answer for you: All the Birds are Gay!! 🐦🌈🪶

whew all the gay mags sending their rejections on the same day after lgbtq+ history month 😭😂

A little over a week ago we got together to celebrate the launch of my debut poetry collection, Another Life! If you missed the reading, you can catch it here on my website: www.frances-klein.com You'll see readings by @toddedillard.bsky.social , @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and myself

Queer community is regularly trading with another woman on Vinted.

i’m going to live freely and feel deeply and flood my community with kindness and connection. we must fight in many ways, but we cannot forget the soft ones.

There’s something strange but also comforting about looking out at a bleak and rainy British neighbourhood from inside a warm tapas restaurant that smells like smoked paprika and fried potatoes

Did u know that @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is open for flash fiction submissions until Saturday, February 15 at 11pm? And that if you send in a story under 1500 words, I will read it? jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

As we continue receiving subs for our REPRINTS issue, a reminder of what's coming next. We open our charity print anthology submissions on 1st March and keep the lid up until 30th June 🦝 Stories 300 - 2500 words to the theme. Any genre. More here: trashcatlit.com/the-bin-coll...

Omg my favourite genre - GAY LETTERS!!

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries Deadline: March 15, 2025 "Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..." medium.com/anomalyblog/...

The Creative Future Writers’ Award for underrepresented writers is open! Theme: Wild Deadline: 18 May Prizes: cash, print antholgy, development support from Creative Future & read at the winners' showcase as part of the London Literature Festival 2025 www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...

I don’t know why I had this thought today but ‘reverse griffin’ is so pointlessly funny. Look at him! Just a little bird butt stuck to a lion head.

JURASSIC PARK x AMMONITE Shunned by Geological Society, Mary Anning stumbles on a portal to the past—live & v v toothy dinosaurs! But is human ambition the deadliest foe of all? Queer love, fun banter. #2025pit Editors, contact my agent Laura Zats! (If you enjoy this idea, boost with a repost!)

that is not how anything grows - Andrea Gibson

Feelin a lot of big feels this week. Wishing I could write through it but the words drip out these days. Not enough for a puddle or a paragraph

Just checking in to say I made it to 36 and fuck if it hasn’t been a strange year

never not surprised at how hard moby dick slaps

This is the kind of thing I see and go ‘oh I really should have used my PhD for this’ 😂 (will be picking up a copy!)

a new favourite line from Chen Chen

as I mean to go on: more writing more reading more self time that isn’t screen time or me time that isn’t scream time more baths? (I don’t know if I like baths) more movement: any kind, all the kinds more kind words floating through my brain more vegetables for good measure.

back with a quickie call: send us your proposals for GARLAND 4 by dec 31 forms.gle/jy3LxHiCgfxx...

Christmas Eve rewatch of Rent as tradition demands

A blessed solstice friends 💜

btw: I have a teeny 🤏🏼 poem in @miniskirtmag.bsky.social today 🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴

What a great issue! Have a teeny poem in here along side a bunch of small words that hit big. Get in.

Jen Frantz

'"It’s your dream, honey, go for gold.” God’s bangles chime as she gestures around her. I say, thank you Lesbian God, but I have to stay...as you said, the people who strongly believe in Heaven are here."' Love! @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/lesbian-god-...

Ada Limón for this dark December morning

In a little Italian place near my house where I literally just shoved this entire pizza in my face and yet it smells so good in here I’m like… what is the limit on pizza, how many breads with cheese is actually too many

This is to remind myself to go back and read all these birb words

After an incredibly long dry spell, acceptance this week for a teeny poem from @miniskirtmag.bsky.social 🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼

hey just a heads up, we have a couple avocados on the counter that somebody needs to eat before they go bad

Me, gesturing vaguely to my life:

Try to make your mental illness work with you, not against you. Become a writer.

Listen to Lesbian God (and also the amazing @pleomorphic2.bsky.social )

“She told me about God, and purity and how Barbie would definitely go to Heaven, but Skipper hmm, Skipper she didn’t know.” Amazing

…and I’m other news, my sub call for @publishedbyjake.bsky.social is now open! oleada.io/publication/...

All of the Don’t Txt Ur Ex pieces are up on @publishedbyjake.bsky.social and a great way to spend your Sunday if you didn’t get a chance to see them during the week! jakethemag.com/tag/exes/

OMLG Sumitra (see what i did there 😜) just adore this! Sweet & sexy! 👏👏👏 @publishedbyjake.bsky.social & @britomatic.bsky.social picked a winner ✔️

All of the Don’t Txt Ur Ex pieces are up on @publishedbyjake.bsky.social and a great way to spend your Sunday if you didn’t get a chance to see them during the week! jakethemag.com/tag/exes/

Last, but most certainly not least, up on @publishedbyjake.bsky.social today is @pleomorphic2.bsky.social with a piece that hooked me right away with the title. Wherever you think heaven is, Lesbian God is here to tell you that road ain’t paved with shame: jakethemag.com/lesbian-god-...

Down to the final stretch. Two poems from Matthew Merson for @publishedbyjake.bsky.social: 'Strange Sour' & 'Someone at Waffle House Reminded Me of You' I'm a sucker for a prose poem, and really dug the unsettled feeling these pieces gave me. Things you want to share with a ghost -

A little late with yesterday's Don't Txt Ur Ex piece, but this one grossed me out, made me laugh out loud, and ended with a twist - couldn't pass it up! Read Spill Your Guts by Casey Clough on @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/spill-your-g...