Day 18 of the #sealeychallenge August 18th- What was eaten was given, Billie Sainwood @kithbooks.bsky.social makes beautiful books, and the poems inside this collection are funny and well-crafted

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My magpie moon still shining

"I take my buckets to whatever water is clean & drench my skin" - NDR, Transformative Bark @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/roberts eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/roberts

NEW 📗! PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social) In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil "The year's great work of literary horror." —Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

It’s October which means it’s been a year since I emailed @kithbooks.bsky.social and went “hey what do you think about a short story collection?” I for one think now is the PERFECT time of year to pick up YOU ARE NOT YOUR BONES if you like queer shit and hauntings that aren’t always literal :)

"I take my buckets to whatever water is clean & drench my skin" - NDR, Transformative Bark @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/roberts eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/roberts

I fucking love buying books.

Hello everyone! I'm excited to announce an all new anthology from the Secret Trans Writing Lair! Inspired by the month of masquerade, this seasonal bundle includes seven all-new stories of devilish disguises and macabre delights- itch.io/b/3327/stwl-...

"There is a grittiness in the words raum presents—an earthiness that lingers in the mind" - Saturn Browne, author of BLOODPATHS salt box nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/saltbox eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/saltbox

*Submission reminder* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info below🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

"There is a grittiness in the words raum presents—an earthiness that lingers in the mind" - Saturn Browne, author of BLOODPATHS salt box nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/saltbox eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/saltbox

"Sobriety becomes an incantation, a summoning spell. I gather bird feathers and selenite. I keep my pocketknife close." - Christy Tending, Sobriety Through the Major Arcana @christytending.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/sobriety eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/sobriety

"Sobriety becomes an incantation, a summoning spell. I gather bird feathers and selenite. I keep my pocketknife close." - Christy Tending, Sobriety Through the Major Arcana @christytending.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/sobriety eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/sobriety

"in turns demanding, interrogatory, and at times self-soothing, these poems dis/construct entire worlds, manipulate media into fractions of self" - BEE LB @tommywyattblake.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/disasterfire eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/disasterfire

"in turns demanding, interrogatory, and at times self-soothing, these poems dis/construct entire worlds, manipulate media into fractions of self" - BEE LB @tommywyattblake.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/disasterfire eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/disasterfire

"The end comes slowly. Takes hours and every ounce of strength. As she sits by his bed Alice’s lungs grasp at the last remaining atoms of hot and fetid air. And still the magpie stays." - Magpie Moon, Rachel Canwell @bookbound2019.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/magpiemoon

Green Latitudes Rick Magee "Green latitudes plums the depths of memory, the legacy of experiences that are felt and kept long after they're lived." - Sandy Carlson Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/magee eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/magee

"The end comes slowly. Takes hours and every ounce of strength. As she sits by his bed Alice’s lungs grasp at the last remaining atoms of hot and fetid air. And still the magpie stays." - Magpie Moon, Rachel Canwell @bookbound2019.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/magpiemoon

Green Latitudes Rick Magee "Green latitudes plums the depths of memory, the legacy of experiences that are felt and kept long after they're lived." - Sandy Carlson Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/magee eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/magee

"I didn't realize that all these little rituals we're only letting the mourning swallow me while." - Odette Augustine, For Spite and Rosemary @brigibee.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/forspiteandrosemary eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/forspiteandrosemary

cosign. our dependence on distro monoliths has been, and will be, disastrous for books.

Holds Up When Shattered Merri Andrew @merriandrew.bsky.social "This is a voice to listen to, a collection to re-read and re-read." - Sarah St Vincent Welch, author of chalk borders Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/shattered eBook: kithbooks.com/shop/p/shattered

"Jannotti's poems know well how excruciating is waiting—waiting to be seen, to be held, to be loved." - Lilia Marie Ellis Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings Amy Jannotti @cursetheground.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/jannotti eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/jannotti

buy my book it's really good paper: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/chain... digital: www.kithbooks.com/digital/p/ch... can't afford it? contact @kithbooks.bsky.social through the website tell your library tell your friends perfect for Halloween more poems at popelizbet.com

"Beast Country redefines what it means to use language as reckoning, to speak in tongues of truth and grit." - Courtney Faye Taylor, author of Concentrate Beast Country K. Christopherson Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/beastcountry eBooks: kithbooks.com/digital/p/beastcountry

"Beast Country redefines what it means to use language as reckoning, to speak in tongues of truth and grit." - Courtney Faye Taylor, author of Concentrate Beast Country K. Christopherson Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/beastcountry eBooks: kithbooks.com/digital/p/beastcountry

"Sainwood has amassed a body of lush, sensuous poems about transition and blood, sex and death, faith and becoming." - Magen Cubed, author of The Southern Gothic series @DriedMarigolds Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/whatwaseaten eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/whatwaseaten

You know what I love? The ephemerality of poetry chapbooks. On that note: paperbillpress.wordpress.com

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"Sainwood has amassed a body of lush, sensuous poems about transition and blood, sex and death, faith and becoming." - Magen Cubed, author of The Southern Gothic series @DriedMarigolds Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/whatwaseaten eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/whatwaseaten

“There is thrill in feeling the rigid shatter against the soft” - Allison Thung, MOLAR @poetrybyallison.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/molar eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/molar

exit wound (no point of entry) arushi 'aera' rege (links in reply) "exit wounds makes me want to fall in love all over again just so I can feel the emotions one more time" - Ashley Elizabeth, author of A Family Thing Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/exitwound eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/exitwound

exit wound (no point of entry) arushi 'aera' rege (links in reply) "exit wounds makes me want to fall in love all over again just so I can feel the emotions one more time" - Ashley Elizabeth, author of A Family Thing Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/exitwound eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/exitwound

i love this book

unholy fruit dre levant "[unholy fruit] is a treacle delight that lingers long after the first taste" - Elena Sichrovsky, author of Eating Out Anne Sexton @drelevant.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/unholyfruit eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/unholyfruit

Want to hear @alinaetc.bsky.social and I read from our new books? Want to listen to us chat about the similarities and differences between poetry and prose collections, and the craft/process that goes into writing and publishing them? 👀🥰 writer.org/event/grieco...

unholy fruit dre levant "[unholy fruit] is a treacle delight that lingers long after the first taste" - Elena Sichrovsky, author of Eating Out Anne Sexton @drelevant.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/unholyfruit eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/unholyfruit

Afterimages meltdown! ☢️ An emergency closure of the Afterimages nuclear slush pile. After October, it’s 10-year anniversary campaign & new projects. 🧪 Queued submissions will be transferred or may withdraw behind a lead curtain. ⚠️ Not a drill, but we still want to read your work for 2026.🚨

Nicola Andrews "embodies a fierce decolonial spirit, subversive humor, and wondrous love that their tūpuna (ancestors) would indeed be proud of." - Craig Santos Perez, author of From Unincorporated Territory Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/decolonization eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/decolonization

Nicola Andrews "embodies a fierce decolonial spirit, subversive humor, and wondrous love that their tūpuna (ancestors) would indeed be proud of." - Craig Santos Perez, author of From Unincorporated Territory Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/decolonization eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/decolonization

"I write poems to remind myself I am in love with a freedom I haven't yet experienced" - Billy-Ray Belcourt, 'Realism' from The Idea of an Entire Life

“An impressive execution of recurring motif capturing the metamorphosis of masculine and feminine, SWARM encapsulates both a sharp bite and the frenzied dance of a gossamer wing.” - Devon Webb @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/swarm eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/swarm

The Cobra and The Key, Sam Shelstad's satire of writers and writing, is readaloud funny. the call is coming from inside the house and we're, all of us, screwed. app.thestorygraph.com/books/58af20...

How long since you ordered/bought a book directly from a small press? This morning, for me 🙈💙📚✨ perugiapress.org/product/apos...

“An impressive execution of recurring motif capturing the metamorphosis of masculine and feminine, SWARM encapsulates both a sharp bite and the frenzied dance of a gossamer wing.” - Devon Webb @apocalypsepoet.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/swarm eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/swarm

"Each ... haibun captures a unique facet of this breathtaking landscape, weaving together poetry and prose to illuminate the essence of the Canadian Rockies." - A.R. Williams Abecedarian: Banff, Canada Melanie Hyo-In Han Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/banff eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/banff

"Each ... haibun captures a unique facet of this breathtaking landscape, weaving together poetry and prose to illuminate the essence of the Canadian Rockies." - A.R. Williams Abecedarian: Banff, Canada Melanie Hyo-In Han Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/banff eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/banff

"These poems will carve you, empty you, so they can fill you; will press & stick to the roof of your mouth." - Amy Jannotti, author of Angels & Insects are Creatures With Wings Fatherland, Motherland Leo Rose Rodriguez Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/rodriguez eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/rodriguez