overjoyed and honored to have had the opportunity to edit this issue of GARLAND from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, read and gaze upon all the great work 🦷🏳️‍⚧️🐀

Happy shortlist day! First up, we’ve got seven fantastic poetry collections by transfeminine authors up for the Best Transfeminine Poetry of 2024 award 💖 The trans poetry community is mostly on Instagram (where I am not), so if folks want to go shout people out over there that would rock.

hi humans of bluesky. we are worried we were perhaps unclear: @sadeebee.bsky.social's call is seeking ERASURE POETRY. we've loved reading other interpretations of this call, but they're not quite what we're after this time around!

this poem fucks. you can download the issue thru ko-fi check it out @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is the best!

*whispers aside to you conspiratorily behind her hand*: "I'm in this one."

extremely excited and humbled to announce that my poem "Short Message Service Protocol" was published earlier today in issue 4 of GARLAND from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social !!! This whole collection is truly incredible and I am so honored to be a part of it! fifthwheelpress.com/garland

why yes, i *do* feel that this issue of GARLAND entering the world at golden hour is apt fifthwheelpress.com/garland

task paralysis is hitting me like a truck in all regards, but GARLAND contributors, expect a draft tonight!

My poem/song “& the cryptid” was recently published at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social As a song, it has just as much potential in the klezmer genre as the Irish Trad genre (or sean-nós if translated as Gaeilge). CW: Classism, anti-homeless discrimination, references to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

*ride of the valkyries starts playing* we have extended effervescent subs through 10/7! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

I have a new poem out today at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social called “#latergram” about social media, growing up on the internet, and the expectations of ~*being online*~

L’shanah Tova 5786! My poem/song “& the cryptid” is now out on @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social As a song, it has just as much potential in the klezmer genre as the Irish Trad genre (or sean-nós if translated as Gaeilge). CW: Classism, anti-homeless discrimination, ref. to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Our Fall 2025 issue, Before/After, is still open for submissions! More info: blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/submit

send a sub today (9/19, or in the next ~21 hours from right now) and get a response tomorrow (9/20) fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

nom nom (get it)

My review of @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social's "in the aftermath" is now live in @phillychapbook.bsky.social. Read about it here: phillychapbookreview.org/verses-of-mo... @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

"[Ram] presents a revealing and heartbreaking collection that asks the reader to think about what they remember the most about those they have lost." Read @carriganak.bsky.social's full review. @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/verses-of-mo...

also: FAST RESPONSE EVENT INCOMING!!!! send a submission on Friday (9/19) from 12AM to 11:59PM EST and get a response on Saturday (9/20)!

hi! friendly reminder that we are open for 'effervescent' subs through the end of the month! fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

This anthology just keeps delivering. "was that the final finger on my lips that I would get? Was that the last appeal to permanence I’d get? Is this tiny, tiny, tiny scrap of meat all that I get?" @aporianautics.bsky.social demanding I wake up with this one. fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

Announcing our nominations for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @seaheye.bsky.social, Sam Mainz, @jjpena.bsky.social, @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, and C Ray Borck

Ok, friends, we are DELIGHTED to announce our nominees for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay @awritingwall.bsky.social @odinmeadows.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social Jae Casella @lyfaulk.bsky.social Sama Bell

Congratulations to our nominees for the first ever Monarch Queer Literary Awards!!! You should 100% go give these wonderful pieces a read if you haven't already.

🎶 Butterfly in the sky.. We're thrilled to nominate for the Monarch Queer Lit Awards! @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social Darryl de Prez! @thelarkcalls.bsky.social! @meaningruiner.bsky.social! andrea lianne grabowski! Eden Chicken! Daniel Sheen! @godstained.bsky.social! @sarah-bricault.bsky.social! 👏 👏

editors, have you fed the butterfly yet? bc it hungers

Mark your calendars: submissions will open the evening of September 9 for our Fall 2025 Digital Lit issue!

if you're not nominating your contributors for the @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards, wyd?

icymi: we're open!

new poetry out at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ! fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...

THE EFFERVESCENT THREAD ✨🧵

I forgot to share in the whirlwind of starting a new job, but I have a hybrid flash thing(?) (what even is genre anyway) up on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog this week about migraines, tarot, and the way illness disiorients us from our bodies 🖤 fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...

new poem, flag poem, up the other week @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

sooooo close to the bottom of the fulfillment pile, y'all. if it hasn't been marked fulfilled yet, it will be by the end of the weekend! as an aside: if you are still waiting, thanks for your patience. life has been really unkind to me this year and your grace means more than i can say right now.

it's my birthday buy my book

fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/mak... you know you wanna buy so bad 🦉🔮👁️ @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @kenyonreview.bsky.social I'll send y'all one, hmm? 🤷‍♀️ see what all the fuss is about? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

5 days until blog subs close! we'll be reopening at the end of sept for @sadeebee.bsky.social's "Erasing You" call and then again in november for @cavar.bsky.social's "Alterhuman/Multispecies" call, but this is your last chance to send unthemed work for a while! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

LOOK AT MY BABY

Jessica Nirvana Ram’s beautiful poetry collection is available for preorder. It was an honour to do the cover art for ‘in the aftermath’ and I’m so happy it found a new home with fifth wheel press! 💛

the long-awaited 'in the aftermath' by @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social is now available for preorder, dropping in september! fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/in-...

two new poems up today! thank you @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social and @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

nat is planning to ship all remaining orders this friday or next. if you're in line stay in line!

some @selizabeth.bsky.social for your tues morning mobile users, this is best viewed horizontally! fifthwheelpress.com/blogarchive/...

didja hear? SN_33PsCoolZine.pdf by Tenacity Plys is a Lammy finalist!

in my medium-ugly graphic era. at 10:32 on a tuesday, here are our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the net nominees read 'em all: fifthwheelpress.com/nominations

#FF It’s the last Friday of Pride Month! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that are trans-led 🏳️‍⚧️: @alocasiamag.bsky.social @beestung.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @hapterapress.bsky.social @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

it's the last weekend of pride & while some of you are out being loud and incredible, others are out here 24/7/365 & are, as we are, immeasurably tired. why not curl up with a good read instead? @kithbooks.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @anmlymag.bsky.social @alocasiamag.bsky.social

Honey & Foglifter?? this is excellent company we'll pay it forward with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @newwordspress.bsky.social @traumbooks.bsky.social & @incisionpress.bsky.social who have unwittingly dressed me for pride

p.s. if you're a contributor waiting for your book to be added to our "friends" page, that's coming within the week :)

my copy of garland 3 from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social arrived! pictured here with some of my ace pin collection - grab your copy today fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/garla…