I AM CO-EDITING THIS 🌊💗 Do you ever struggle to place your longer essays or fiction pieces? So do we. So we decided to create an anthology all about celebrating the unique joys & opportunities of long prose.
Subs open 3/15-5/15!! Come wander way downstream with us.
we also have another SURPRISE call opening this month. more info at fifthwheelpress.com/way-downstream 👀
motherboard Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for motherboard: all genres. #CallforSubmissions
Our Jump Start Award Winner Cade Smith's nominator, the editor nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social says of his poem:
"The language in this piece goes CRAZY. I love the way the author describes such a simple thing with such adept complexity without going overboard."
I had a bunch of good stuff this year in poetry but if you have just one space on your poetry ballot, let it be "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To" from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social BRAINROT anthology fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...
hey all, we know we have a couple of outstanding orders to get shipped out. tbh, awp prep has been all-consuming, and we hope to have those shipped next week once the conference is over!
psst... rumor has it, you can find some planty goodies from ALOCASIA at these events!!! also, support fwp in general, because they rock!!!!! 🌿😈🌿😈🌿
FWP @ AWP '26 offsite events: Balancing Act: A Literary Circus. Weds 3/4 @ 7pm, The Club Car (12 W North Ave). in partnership with Mason Jar Press & JackLeg Press, hosted by The Workshop Prince. FRUITCAKE #8. Thurs 3/5 @ 6pm, Palm Room at The Belvedere (1 E Chase St). baltimore's quarterly queer reading series meets fwp. hosted by nat raum. buy our books! at the UBalt Booth (539–541), Thurs 3/5 from 12–3pm. take nat's workshop! at the UBalt Booth (539–541), Sat 3/7 from 11am–12pm (drop-in).
where to find your favorite independent publisher of queer literature and art at #AWP26
a reminder: real baltimoreans don't eat atlas or smoke curio!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DASHBOARD AWARD WINNERS! @mdbolsover.bsky.social, @sampadgett96.bsky.social, & Cade Smith!
THANK YOU TO THE PUBLICATIONS & NOMINATORS! @rangermagazine.bsky.social @davidabishop.bsky.social, Salt Hill, & @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social!
#poetry
Fruitcake venue change!!!
(this post has been UPDATED with a new location for FRUITCAKE)
the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."
FRUITCAKE: Baltimore's quarterly queer reading series, in collaboration with fifth wheel press especially for AWP 2026. The Palm Room at The Belvedere. March 5, 6:30pm (6:00 doors) Featuring Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, nat raum A caked-up pear is also featured
a reminder to all #AWP26 attendees: we have TWO offsites!!! each with absolutely stellar lineups! support local literature while u are in baltimore or i will secretly think you are uncool!!!!!
Kick off AWP in Baltimore with drag, burlesque, and literary performances! Hosted by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social and @jacklegpress.bsky.social Tips accepted at door for Trans Maryland. #awp #poetry #dragshow #burlesque @ezewriter.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social
i'm putting my whole everything into hosting these and have made absolutely zero plans for myself as an author of multiple books, if that tells you how good they are going to be
Join JackLeg writers @christophernelson.bsky.social @gendeguzman.bsky.social @ritamookerjee.bsky.social
+ friends from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social
& do some good to help Trans Maryland!! Tip donations at the door.
#AWP #poetry #dragshow #burlesque #LGBTQPlus
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Our Dashboard Award: Jumpstart WINNER is ...
Cade Smith's "Ode to the Strand of Hair That Got Stuck in My Gum," published by fifth wheel press & nominated by editor nat raum!
Bouncy & earnest, we found it irresistibly alive!
Read it here: fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...
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@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social has your Thursday on lock with a SERIOUS FREAKIN lineup
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my first interview as interviews editor with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is out now! w/ the poet L Scully about their book, Self-Romancing, published by
@michelletea.bsky.social / Dopamine Books. You can buy their book through the link in the interview!
and do NOT forget about fruitcake. a fun fact about fruitcake is that this is a REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENT!!!! it doesn't go away when awp leaves the city!!!
icymi my ace love poem for my partner that's also about Demonology @sfpoetry.bsky.social
the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."
you didn't REALLY think we were only throwing one offsite in our HOME CITY, did you??????
#AWP26 @masonjarpress.bsky.social @jacklegpress.bsky.social
this is a rare love poem from me to my long time partner, and I hope you all enjoy it.
new new from @popelizbet.bsky.social today
fifthwheelpress.com/blog/feature...
send me something to read tonight pls & ty
LEMME AT IT!
if you have:
-general work about queerness
-fun visual poetry
-a weird hermit crab essay
-a short story with characters that are gay af
-work that is *not* on theme for 'motherboard'
this is a great opportunity to submit it!
gonna be really blunt for a second and say we only opened unthemed blog submissions because we get *that many* submissions to our themed anthologies that are excellent, but have nothing to do with the anth theme.
