Congrats to the JAKE BOTN noms, esp @gavinopoet.bsky.social who submitted to DONT TXT UR EX last year xxx itβs a big hitter
Congrats to the JAKE BOTN noms, esp @gavinopoet.bsky.social who submitted to DONT TXT UR EX last year xxx itβs a big hitter
We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.
Btw everyone is gorgeous and talented and you should go download all their books.
Comin over here to to say if you have been wondering whether the birds in your backyard might be a little fruity, I have the answer for you:
All the Birds are Gay!!
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whew all the gay mags sending their rejections on the same day after lgbtq+ history month ππ
A little over a week ago we got together to celebrate the launch of my debut poetry collection, Another Life!
If you missed the reading, you can catch it here on my website: www.frances-klein.com
You'll see readings by @toddedillard.bsky.social , @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and myself
Queer community is regularly trading with another woman on Vinted.
iβm going to live freely and feel deeply and flood my community with kindness and connection. we must fight in many ways, but
we cannot forget the soft ones.
Did u know that @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is open for flash fiction submissions until Saturday, February 15 at 11pm? And that if you send in a story under 1500 words, I will read it?
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/
I mean Iβm also in the market for a wife? π
As we continue receiving subs for our REPRINTS issue, a reminder of what's coming next.
We open our charity print anthology submissions on 1st March and keep the lid up until 30th June π¦
Stories 300 - 2500 words to the theme. Any genre.
More here: trashcatlit.com/the-bin-coll...
Omg my favourite genre - GAY LETTERS!!
Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
Deadline: March 15, 2025
"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as weβve existedβto practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."
medium.com/anomalyblog/...
The Creative Future Writersβ Award for underrepresented writers is open!
Theme: Wild
Deadline: 18 May
Prizes: cash, print antholgy, development support from Creative Future & read at the winners' showcase as part of the London Literature Festival 2025
www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...
I donβt know why I had this thought today but βreverse griffinβ is so pointlessly funny. Look at him! Just a little bird butt stuck to a lion head.
JURASSIC PARK x AMMONITE
Shunned by Geological Society, Mary Anning stumbles on a portal to the pastβlive & v v toothy dinosaurs! But is human ambition the deadliest foe of all?
Queer love, fun banter.
#2025pit
Editors, contact my agent Laura Zats!
(If you enjoy this idea, boost with a repost!)
On days I have a hard time keeping warm in my own weather, I imagine what the flower wanted to say to the first human trying to name half of its petals love-me-nots: No, that is not how anything grows.
that is not how anything grows
- Andrea Gibson
Feelin a lot of big feels this week. Wishing I could write through it but the words drip out these days. Not enough for a puddle or a paragraph
Just checking in to say I made it to 36 and fuck if it hasnβt been a strange year
never not surprised at how hard moby dick slaps
Oh snap. I mean. Yeah I live in London, so it wonβt be posted very far at that rate π
This is the kind of thing I see and go βoh I really should have used my PhD for thisβ π
(will be picking up a copy!)
Let there be a patron saint of making impossible birds very annoyed.
a new favourite line from Chen Chen
as I mean to go on:
more writing
more reading
more self time that isnβt screen time or me time that isnβt scream time
more baths? (I donβt know if I like baths)
more movement: any kind, all the kinds
more kind words floating through my brain
more vegetables for good measure.
back with a quickie call: send us your proposals for GARLAND 4 by dec 31
forms.gle/jy3LxHiCgfxx...
Christmas Eve rewatch of Rent as tradition demands
A blessed solstice friends π
1000-horse poem I read once that there are no photographs of miracles. But spring returns, Each year we count: the possibility of the whole herd in one shot
btw: I have a teeny π€πΌ poem in @miniskirtmag.bsky.social today π΄π΄π΄π΄π΄