Update update update: just recommended that the 14th street location of @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social (shout out to them they are awesome) stock Plastic, Prism, Void because SELF-QUOTE “it is changing my life.”

Are you a queer writer in the DC area looking to be part of a new small reading series? Go to onfirereadingseries.neocities.org and let my friend @ktonbsky.bsky.social know you’re interested!!

I am creating a queer reading series in DC and you are all invited: onfirereadingseries on Instagram and onfirereadingseries.neocities.org First event TBA. Please share!

So excited to have two collaborative poems with my friend Nisha out today!!! Check out this whole issue 🔥🔥

How am I reacclimating after @barrelhouse.bsky.social writers camp? I’m not. Thanks for asking.

Camp has occurred

Battlestar Ataxia: Vanessa Wolosz reviews Violet Allen's PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID (@littlepuss.net)

WE ARE STILL BASKING IN THE JOY OF SATURDAY NIGHT Thank you so much to our readers Gwen Aube @astoehr.bsky.social and @blipstress.bsky.social for LIGHTING UP the stage and thank YOU to everyone who came out to share the joy of transsexual books!

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

Hey fellow trans friends, I can't wait to get fucked up with some weird ass trans horror ❤️give me the stories you finished and were like "nah, I love this..but it's fucking weird and unsellable." And you leave it in a doc for 3 years. Please surprise me & make me feel gross & cry. I want it bad

Update update: the way I SEE myself in this book is scary. I am also forcing it on everyone I know. Read this book. @littlepuss.net

“A Brother’s Gotta Tell Me Goodbye” by Ryan McCarty (Flame) and Dylan Night (Spark) made me cry when I read it. “I squeezed all my hope into a stone and prayed it / toward the lake,...” Check it out, page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #poetry #litmag #writingcommunity

issue 6 of GARLAND will be guest-edited by @sadeebee.bsky.social fifthwheelpress.com/garlandsubs

The trick is you just say fuck it, whatever, in any situation

danez smith SAY IT WITH YOUR WHOLE BLACK MOUTH

Oh this shit, again??? Read some autistic poems, they're really good.

Fuck

Update: this book is making me feel so much / takes my breath away, to the point where I have to start-stop-start-stop reading it. Because if I read too much at once I may combust.

Issue Seven of S2F is published! www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... In this issue, we have two co-authored poems and eleven poems created through our "spark-to-flame" process. Thank you to the cover artist, Adam (see more of his work on Instagram at @digitallycomposed)

happy s2f publication eve to all who celebrate (me) !!!!

I’m seated 🔥 Picked up “Embodied Exegesis” edited by @robotleblanc.bsky.social a while ago from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and am just now getting into it. Holy shit I love this, is my main reaction right now.

🐑The Lammy's are right around the corner and GENDERTRASH FROM HELL is a finalist for the Transgender Nonfiction Award! We are so proud to have this work up for a Lammy among the other HEAVY HITTING nominees! @lambdaliterary.org #lammys2026

Peter Hamm, tr. Helmut Bonheim

Oh hello is this now my favorite love poem 👀

If you enjoy the excerpts I have posted, please consider buying my book, which is filled to bursting with thrilling bons mots, daring executions of the various schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric, clever glosses of ancient texts, and some stuff about love or magic powers or whatever.

The way I’m already obsessed with this two pages in my goodness 🔥 @littlepuss.net @blipstress.bsky.social

Humid nights & caring madly. Ghost tails & Zoom sex. Broskis & deleted archives. Smoking in the sun. beestung #27 is here! w/ Sora Anindya, Birch Wiley, Christian M. Ivey, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Lavanya Arora, KB Brookins, & Stevie Subrizi www.beestungmag.com

😱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.