Six volumes of Anodyne at a holiday price! 🩵 Poems, essays, art, and more that explore the reality of FLINTA* health.
 All six print issues for €74 (normally €110). Support a small feminist + queer press, and the contributors who make it what it is. 🔗 anodynemag.com/product/anod...

More big news from Anodyne: our nominees for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards are here 🩷 @monarch.gay 🫀 “Animal Baby Mania” by Frances Cannon 💫 "Insides" by Alana Rosenbloom 🔗 Read their work through purchasing Vol.4: anodynemag.com/vol4 #AnodyneMagazine #FLINTA #MonarchAwards

🚨 Apps open! We’re looking for our 2026 Creator in Residence — a year-long fellowship for one emerging writer or artist to grow. Get mentorship & join a queer, feminist community centering FLINTA* voices! 🖋 Apply by Nov 15: anodynemag.submittable.com #AnodyneMagazine #FLINTA #LiteraryFellowship

Here is an excerpt of one of our Pushcart Prize nominees. We love this one becuase its unabashed about female aging. open.substack.com/pub/anodynem...

🩸Blood🩸 Originally published by @anodynemag.bsky.social in vol. 6 along with other #flinta authors with #body related work, available at anodynemag.com #PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

This Halloween, we’re reclaiming the “monster." Who gets called monstrous, and why? Draw or write your own creature, one that reveals the truth about survival, adaptation, and power. 
Our FLINTA* bodies were never the horror story. #FLINTA #LitMag #Prompt #Halloween

The final two brilliant Vol.6 pieces explore what it means to survive inside a FLINTA* body: to ache, to endure, and find tenderness in between it all. Read more: anodynemag.com/vol6 #flinta #queer #writing #poetry #litmag

This week's creative prompt: Redraw the Human Anatomy Chart. 🫀 Add the details they didn’t include: the euphoric hormone patch, the nerve that flares up, the scar that embodies strength. Make it queer. Make it FLINTA*. Make it real! #AnodynePrompt #QueerHealth #FLINTA #DisabilityJustice

🪄 Vol.6 Featured Writer: Brittany Micka-Foos Her essay “The Hoax Underneath My Scars” entwines scars, music, and the failures of medical care — with Taylor Swift’s “Hoax” as a lens for pain and resilience. Purchase Vol.6 here: anodynemag.com/read/vol-6/ #FLINTA #TaylorSwift #LitMag #Writing #Art

Anodyne's nominations for the 2026 #Pushcart Prize! 🩵 (1/2) Congrats to our nominees: 🩺 Kresha Richman Warnock (“My Pessary”) ⭐️ Kelsey Britt (“revelation 31:2”) 💉 Katherine DeCoste (“View Lab Report Here”)
 🔗 Find their work: anodynemag.com #PushcartPrize #flinta #litmag

FLINTA* healthcare doesn’t have to be abstract. Through our Vol.6 contributors, it’s lived and real through the lenses of stigma, love, and the body’s persistence. 🩵 Purchase Vol.6: anodynemag.com/vol6 #flinta #queer #writing #poetry #litmag

"The Cripple Punk" is looking for writers with disabilities to speak the loud, loud truth. They are a paying market. cripplepunkmag.substack.com/about

We think our followers will want to pitch @latinxprojnyu.bsky.social — info here: www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/submission-g...

The best part of our job... sending out award nominations. Keep an eye on your inboxes. 💙

We want to take a moment to reaffirm our values and make our stance clear. In light of ongoing attacks on DEI, we’re using this space to say: we’re not backing down. Anodyne exists to provide a safe, cathartic space for FLINTA* creators. We’ve also included resources and ways to support each other.

Got something spooky to write? These publishers want it. 🎃 open.substack.com/pub/anodynem...

The #Disabled Writers database is an incredible resource to editors and a fantastic opportunity to writers. Have a look. 👀 www.disabledwriters.com?page_id=140

Our bodies aren’t machines; they’re rivers, sunsets, and succulents. 🌊☀️🌱 Anodyne’s Vol.6 contributors remind us: nature lives under our skin. Shop the full issue here: anodynemag.com/vol6

Award season’s here! 🌟 Anodyne is nominating our contributors for the big ones: CLMP prizes + the new Monarch Awards for queer short-form work. Visibility is critical to our mission of advocating for health equity. Which awards do you think should be on our radar this year?  #flinta #queer #litmag

Vol.6 is full of unique bodies: 🌋 A brain that’s volcanic 🪩 A self that multiplies on a disco floor ✒️ A gut that strings itself into a ceremony Shop the whole issue here: anodynemag.com/vol6 #poetry #litmag #queerart

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day! 💜💖💙 Bi folks aren’t “half-and-half,” and no, we don’t have to pick a side. To all the bisexual FLINTA* friends — we see you and we celebrate you. #BiPride #BisexualVisibilityDay #FLINTA

ANODYNE means many things, but never just one. 📖🩵 Traditionally: to soothe, to numb, to be “harmless.” Our "anodyne" is LOUD, bright, unapologetic. We are a literary magazine for FLINTA* health, creativity, and resistance. 🌟 #AnodyneMagazine #FLINTA #HealthWriting #QueerArt #LitMag

Surreal hybrids, bathroom odysseys, lipstick-stained matriarchs: Vol.6 never plays it safe. 🐙 Serge Lecomte, "Sharing" 🎾 Titi Kusumandari, "Five Meters Away" 💄 Brandice Askin, "Fragmented Matriarch" Full pieces → anodynemag.com/vol6 #litmag #flinta #poetry #prose #queerart

IN VOL.6: Bodies carry faith, culture, noise. “Altar” by Haley Olds: religion collides with desire and guilt "Ascend/Descend” by Ping Wang: staircases illustrate belonging “Aubade for ADHD” by Christie Beckwith: the relentless pulse of a neurodivergent mind anodynemag.com/vol6 🩺 #FLINTA #LitMag

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. According to The Trevor Project, 39% of LGBTQ+ youth considered suicide last year; half couldn’t access care. If you’re struggling: dial 988 (U.S.) or find global hotlines at iasp.info.
 Learn more about our health-centered stories at anodynemag.com

Ouch! is open to submissions from #lgbtq writers. www.ouchcollective.com

@pangyrus.bsky.social opens for submission in a few days. One of their categories, "In Sickness and In Health," is a perfect fit for our readers. Put it on your list. pangyrus.submittable.com/submit

Your heating pad isn’t just a heating pad. Your pill bottle isn’t just a pill bottle.
 A creative prompt for all art forms: turn an everyday health object into something else entirely—a weapon, a cathedral, or a love poem? Tag us w/ your response. Find inspo in Vol.6 → anodynemag.com/vol6 #prompt

@kwelijournal.bsky.social is open for submission for work from BIPOC writers who "sing the truth." Slay. #writingcommunity www.kwelijournal.org/submit

The Indiana Review (out of Bloomington) is open for submission for "carefully strange" work for a nominal honorarium. We fully support this mission. #writingcommunity indianareview.iu.edu/submissions/...

This anthology pays well for pieces by #trans and #intersex sex workers. #writingcommunity transactionalintercourse.carrd.co

IN VOL.6: “Misdiagnosis” by Ella Gage: gallbladder 16x normal size. “Eye Strain” by Jonah Barnett: laser surgeries turned into cyanotype art. “You definitely don’t have a learning disability” by Caitlin Thomson: words that hurt more than illness. Read the full pieces → anodynemag.com/vol6

This #OverdoseAwarenessDay (Aug 31), let’s get real: Bisexual women are over 2× more likely to misuse prescription opioids than straight women. Plus, LGBTQ+ folks face substance use rates 2–3× higher. Addiction is a public health crisis. Let’s fight stigma and demand better access to care.

The NonBinary Review by @zoeticpress.bsky.social is open for submissions. Current theme is metamorphosis. More here: www.zoeticpress.com/submit #writingcommunity

@hearthstories.bsky.social opens for submission in a few days. Will you be sending work this round? #writingcommunity hearthstories.org/submissions....

@vestalreview.bsky.social is currently open for submission! They're a paying market. 😉 Check out their guidelines and get your beautiful work in: www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

✨ New: our Super Supporter tier on Substack ($150/year). Support Anodyne’s work advocating for health equity + get editorial critique of your ongoing work. Join here: anodynemag.substack.com And don’t miss Vol.6, now in print & ebook! #LitMag #WritingCommunity

In Vol.6, our contributors write through bleeding bodies, healing botanicals, and the language of loss. ❤️‍🩹 Read their full work in Vol.6 (both print or ebook orders comes with audiobook): anodynemag.com/product/anod... #FLINTA #litmag #poetry

I am delighted that my piece was published in the latest issue of Anodyne Magazine. Winning reimagined in a patchwork of scars, blood, and medical tape.

Our guess is our followers have incredible stories to tell that advocate for underrepresented voices. This call for manuscripts is a great fit! #writingcommunity www.historythroughfiction.com/submissiongu...

Check out the beautiful essay by Brittany Micka-Foos published in our just-launched Vol.6 that engages intelligently with #taylorswift song "Hoax" as a medium for recovery. anodynemag.substack.com/p/the-hoax-u...

Special announcement on our Instagram page. 🩵 www.instagram.com/reel/DNbflRl...

Anodyne Vol.6 is here!
 21 #poems, 3 art pieces, 1 essay, 1 creative nonfiction, 1 visual animation, and 1 prose piece --- all FLINTA* voices resisting the “medical gaze” and reclaiming the self.
 Guest editor Maria McLeod calls it “a chorus of international voices” Get your copy anodynemagazine.com

Celebrate the launch of Anodyne Magazine Vol.6, hosted by guest editor Maria McLeod! Live reading and Q&A with our featured creators on 15 August at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST. Free on Zoom plus a 10% discount on the issue. anodynemagazine.com/events #litmag #writingcommunity

We're pretty sure Anodyne readers and contributors will have something befitting this prize. Theme is "secrets" and they want private thoughts ro concelaled moments. No fee for prize entry! #writingprize #writingcommunity www.valwood.co.uk/val-wood-prize

Do you want to hear from Vol.6 contributors AND get 10% off the issue? Of course you do! Join us for our launch event August 15th, hosted by guest editor Maria McLeod, and hear from some of our contributors this issue. (RSVP below) anodynemag.com/event/vol-6-...

New zine alert for Black writers and historians! #writingcommunity lnk.bio/theblackordi...

"All My Relations" is looking for submissions from marginalized, gender-variant, and disabled contributors. www.talbot-heindl.com/relations#:~....

New Worlds Press is open for submission for trans + nb work. newwordspress.submittable.com/submit

Volume 6 cover reveal!!! What do you think? Is it cozy or what!? Can't wait for you to see the full issue on August 15th.