This #GivingTuesday, please keep beestung in mind! We're an independent and volunteer-run small magazine highlighting two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and writing. Our issues are free, we don't charge submission fees, and we pay our writers. www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

beestung is honestly a transgender literary culture landmark please send them some money to keep running!

if you've enjoyed reading beestung for free, please keep doing that, but also please consider giving us maybe $5-$640. 🐝

You can buy my silence on Giving Tuesday! We're $688 from our goal. www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

A quite large oil on canvas portrait of Lorna from 1991. This one is stored away rolled up with other canvases but I just spotted a photo of it on my camera rolll. She was a frequent and very patient sitter for portraits when she lived nearby and has several of them (more available!) #art #portrait

hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!! You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject! fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs

Do we have friends in #Indiana who have room for some very well cared-for cats in search of forever homes? #Caturday #BookstoreCats #SignalBoost #CatLovers #ForeverHomes

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

Sarah always does a beautiful job w/ beestung. Check it out!

Always honored to be published in the first lit mag I ever submitted to :)) Also a reminder to vote for beestung in best lit mag on chill subs!!

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap41

Got some lamb cubes and made Uyghur style polo, burnt the bottom a bit but I like the flavor

for the late night crowd 🌙

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years

If you wanna read my best microfiction nomination it’s here :)

Being here for the duration & doing the dishes. Altar rails & touching up mullets. Disastrous atrophy & boba tea. Setting our fields ablaze. beestung #25 is here! www.beestungmag.com

We’ve been nominated as a finalist in the 2025 Apple App Store Awards! 🎉 We’re being recognised in the Cultural Impact category for our work in building an inclusive book community. The winners will be announced in the coming weeks.

Harp is mentioned and I will repost

Michael Bazzett

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Strange Horizons is open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors! The window will close after 500 stories are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... If you submitted in April or June, you CANNOT submit. #fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi

As winter arrives and the weather grows harsh in Gaza City, my friend Sama'a needs our help more than ever. Please give what you can to help her feed her family. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

ANMLY is elated to announce our nominations for 2026's Best Small Fictions! Eirene Gentle Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador Maria Robinson Desiree Remick Steven R. Kraaijeveld Read their work at anmly.org

Honored that my story "Birdsong" was nominated for Best Microfiction 2026! Many thanks to editor Sarah Clark and everyone at ANMLY. 💜

Weird. When I was 16 I met this girl at school who chatted me up one day. She flirtatiously asked "Will I see you at the staff meeting later?" I said "No, I'm a student." She turned beet red & ran off and we spent the rest of the school year avoiding eye contact BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, CREEPO!

ALOCASIA is honored to be holding two nights of virtual readings to benefit the Western Alaska Relief Fund, to support communities impacted by the recent typhoon. There is a suggested $10-25 donation. We hope to see you there, and hope you'll spread the word! Find out more: bit.ly/linkedhearts...

Haven’t fully processed this yet but I’m incredibly honored and hope everyone reads my stuff that’s coming out in 5 days!!!

Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees! em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Yufan Lu sterling-elizabeth arcadia Read their work at beestungmag.com

Just throwing this out there for reasons apnews.com/article/2022...

reposting just bc I have the exact same pyrex

everybody read my poem in the autistic protest poetry folio!! <3

I have a tiny poem in the new print issue of @chicagoqreview.bsky.social

Stephen King saw this and went back in time and that's how he wrote the Long Walk /j

everybody read my poem in the autistic protest poetry folio!! <3

it! is! here!!!!! please check out this issue, it's so very dear to my heart! our team and our writers really made something special this autumn <3

Deadline coming up soon! Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details at link 💜

a piece "after" Barthelme's "The School" is going to at LEAST grab my attention, and then Zavi Kang Engles knocks it out from there https://www.havehashad.com/7mb5h

“Too cold. Too tongue.” A poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Adrian Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social

Harryette Mullen

The Amazing AnswerBot. www.patreon.com/posts/amazin...

*explaining to my son my idea of having a giant dog rescue where all the dogs are trained to sniff out various diseases and you can pay $100 to walk through and have a dog diagnose you by scent* my son: you could call it “plague dogters” me: I have given birth to a genius

My painting RACE POINT LIGHT

We're especially seeking more work by Indigenous queer writers outside of the US!

Deadline extended! ALOCASIA is open for creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by Indigenous queer writers from around the world. Deadline: June 25th. alocasia.org/about-send-w...

I was trying to name the Seven Deadly Sins and accidentally said Sluttony. I think we can make that a thing.

"I want to be: a good boy, your domesticated coyote." - Mary Violet voicemailpoems.org/2025/05/13/t...

happy pride! i edit an online literary magazine called beestung that's for two-spirit, non-binary, and genderqueer writers and readers. you can support me by reading us or tipping a bit of scratch if you like what we're doing. beestungmag.com