😱THE WAIT IS OVER😱 @blipstress.bsky.social's PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID is officially OUT NOW the genre-exploding, galaxy-spanning thrill ride of a lifetime is OUT NOW in luscious beautiful full-color It's time to breathe in all that glorious LITE PRINT: shorturl.at/wJGpF EBOOK: shorturl.at/pxZMc

Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word

"I am learning how to be weakness leaving the body. I am licking citric atlas critic acid off my fingers. Every day is keep doing my tasks keep reminding and head down. Nobody minds the back kept slant until straight again." —Cavar anmly.org/ap41/sarah-c...

In good news, Embodied Exegesis continues to sell well! Word of mouth has really helped this anthology of weird transfem cyberpunk reach those who need it. Thank you so much to everyone who has read it, or shared it with others!!!

Excited to have two collaborative poems written with my friend Nisha forthcoming in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social Issue Nine!

I wonder how survival happens in darkness, even as I survive.

So anyway Redundancies and Potentials by Dominique Dickey took me apart and then asked me who I am and then put me back together🔥 @neonhemlock.bsky.social

Oh Lord our publishers just do not stop talking

Hey pals, we’re getting closer to GRIEF EATER’s book birthday! Very excited for you all to read my bloody, vengeful, revenge book. 🖤✨ Boosts humbly appreciated!

Our April newsletter is out... and we are THRILLED to feature an interview with the incredible @anathemamagazine.bsky.social editorial team! We talked about their vision, their submissions wishlists, and all the best ways you can support them. Let's help them crush their Kickstarter goals! 🌈💜

For National Poetry Month, we would like to remind you that we publish all time bangers, such as Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin, from TBQ6:

We are creating a new instagram account at sparktoflamejournal - there is one post up and it has a bio. Feel free to follow us over there! #poetry #writingcommunity

Yesssss

My first ever fiction publication went live on the @havehashad.com site five years ago today! The piece got a crazy amount of likes and reshares on a certain social media website that is no longer fun! One of my favorite authors shared it! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/how...

Know I told you it was okay to leave me. Why'd you believe me? You always believed me.

Good morning and happy April! 11 days left to submit something for our seventh issue! #writingcommunity #poetry #submissionsopen

I love Diane Seuss.

What a fantastic reading tonight 🔥

So excited to share this piece 🦅🍋🐈ty @ezhang77.bsky.social and @havehashad.com!

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“How you let them make you into a monster, or a fantasy, or salvation like you weren’t an offering. Like you weren’t conjured from the people in every corner of the planet.” —Kelsey L. Smoot beestungmag.com/issue22/glor...

holy shit this is great.

The way I ordered this so fast. Cannot wait.

The Trans Rights Readathon is just around the corner, and I'm so proud of this range?! We've got: + transfemme hybrid poetry + t4t sea fantasy + t4t cult decay + transfemme absurd + t4t gambling noir + transmasc roadtrip + gendermix flash fic + genderfluid neo-Dracula + fem transmasc picaresque

this one goes out to the repeat offenders! #TransRightsReadthon starts tomorrow! pick up these, and all our other eBooks, for FREE for the duration thank an author, support a trans press, be a steward of the future of lit t4t kithbooks.com

'Tom nestles Ghost Baby in the crook of his arm and hunches over its tiny form as if he can protect it from the flying pans, cups, and cutlery...' Wonderful fractured storytelling by @ktonbsky.bsky.social @jmwwjournal.bsky.social #fiction #flashfiction jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/f...

Good morning all! Our submissions are open for Issue Seven! Less than one month to get something in. Still time, though, to call up a friend to collaborately write a poem 😎 #creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

Pre-orders for our next anthology IDOLS are open NOW!!! Cover art and contributor list TBA lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

also wait hi now that awp insanity is over, i want to plug again that i am open to freelance work in a variety of disciplines, including portraits, book design (cover or interior), and/or developmental editing!

so excited to read this 🔥 @cavar.bsky.social

"Kids have an innate sense of wrongness the same way that deer sense the moment before a hunter pulls his trigger." Read Ghost Baby by @ktonbsky.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🍼 jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/f...

So enjoyed stopping by the Grist table at AWP to pick up my contributor copy of the most recent issue! Thanks to @grrrbinsky.bsky.social and Maggie Rue Hess for including this poem! Love sharing space with some friends here, too! 💙

So excited to have my flash “Ghost Baby” published in JMWW. Thank you to the editors 🙏🏼

THANK YOU @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social for publishing my poem “There is a Termite Man At Our House and I Am Still Sick and Eating Ice Cream”!! 🐜 🪳 🍦 🍨 🐛 🪱 📚 🐸 www.wirewormmagazine.com/current-issu...

‼️BIG NEWS ‼️ Aurora Mattia (Author of The Fifth Wound and Unsex Me Here) will be joining the lineup of readers for the NYC launch of Gwen Aube's Missed Connections With Tall Girls! Join us this Tuesday at Good Judy at 8:00 PM for a beautiful night of tall girls and taller words 👁️See you there👁️

oh. yeah. 🔥 @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @lowermelody.bsky.social

Thank you to AHC for being a home to this piece 💕

@beansbaker5.bsky.social at Death to @publishedbyjake.bsky.social reading 💕 Such a great group of people. Such an epic send-off.

@aniking.bsky.social at Balancing Act: A Literary Circus! 🔥

yesssssss @chenchenwrites.bsky.social & Sam Herschel Wein’s poetry book “Love That For Us”

god i love writing community.

EIC @ktonbsky.bsky.social will be at some AWP off-sites 👀 excited to connect with the literary community, meet new people, and reconnect with others! 💕 #writingcommunity

Very excited to be reading during this! Come outtttt 💕

Zoë Ryder White, from The Visible Field Publication date: tomorrow! 📚💙🎉 riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

Friends in the D.C. area. Don't miss @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social & @edgeofsports.bsky.social in person on Wednesday Feb. 25 at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social (14th & V). Hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social & BBP. Books onsite for purchase & signing. Order from menu throughout the event.

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New call for work: THE PLEASURE ISSUE + Opens May 15 + Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20 The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic More: beestungmag.com/special-call...

Thrilled to have three micros in @wigleaf.bsky.social!!!

Aaaand we’ll be tabling at THE offsite event of the week, Baltimore’s Big Trans and Hon-Binary Readings, along with @littlepuss.net and @feministpress.bsky.social. Just look at that line-up 🤯