We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.

"Two men meet in the middle of a secret, hide behind the bushes. The trees, who see no deviance, offer their trunks for cover." —Grant Chemidlin, “Cruising” alocasia.org/2023/03/20/g...

"Two men meet in the middle of a secret, hide behind the bushes. The trees, who see no deviance, offer their trunks for cover." —Grant Chemidlin, “Cruising” alocasia.org/2023/03/20/g...

"In sp[RED], poetry and Tarot intersect, inviting the reader to venture forth with curiosity. How can I look at the Hanged Man the same way after reading Jessica Doe's poems?" –Theresa Reed sundress-publications.square.site/product/-sp-...

Such a gorgeous and heartbreaking piece

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 5d ago

"At night, I whispered to the fig. I told it about the nights I crouched in the kitchen, counting the cracks in the floorboards, pretending I was invisible. I told it about the hands that could both hold and harm..." —Toya L. Walker alocasia.org/2026/08/11/t...

We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.

"At night, I whispered to the fig. I told it about the nights I crouched in the kitchen, counting the cracks in the floorboards, pretending I was invisible. I told it about the hands that could both hold and harm..." —Toya L. Walker alocasia.org/2026/08/11/t...

"At night, I whispered to the fig. I told it about the nights I crouched in the kitchen, counting the cracks in the floorboards, pretending I was invisible. I told it about the hands that could both hold and harm..." —Toya L. Walker alocasia.org/2026/08/11/t...

"Fucking isn’t like making lei / with lei can start over / take it all apart / use the same pieces / put her back together again" —Ryan Tito Gapelu :: “The pua and the plait” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/r...

"Fucking isn’t like making lei / with lei can start over / take it all apart / use the same pieces / put her back together again" —Ryan Tito Gapelu :: “The pua and the plait” alocasia.org/2025/08/15/r...

We are now accepting applications for short-term writing residencies in all genres for our summer residency period. Free submissions all of September. https://www.sundresspublications.com/safta/uncategorized/2026/09/sundress-academy-for-the-arts-now-accepting-residency-applications-for-summer-2027/

"if i did anything right, it was trusting what i remember. their desire was water—one tracing smoking rocks for direction, the other burning the direction in their head." —B.B.P. Hosmillo alocasia.org/2026/08/11/b...

This is beautifully written and devastating and so fucking important. Please, please find some time in your day to read it.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 7d ago

"if i did anything right, it was trusting what i remember. their desire was water—one tracing smoking rocks for direction, the other burning the direction in their head." —B.B.P. Hosmillo alocasia.org/2026/08/11/b...

"if i did anything right, it was trusting what i remember. their desire was water—one tracing smoking rocks for direction, the other burning the direction in their head." —B.B.P. Hosmillo alocasia.org/2026/08/11/b...

So remember how i was working on that art prpject that inspired my cute Queer, as in poems in ALOCASIA? Well i didn't finish it and then lost three of my panels 😭 Anyway, I'm finishing it with the 6 panels i still have. Why not? Here's 3!

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including Ester Cuervos and Marcy Rae Henry in ALOCASIA for this list!

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Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating by picking your next reads from our 2026 reading list: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating by picking your next reads from our 2026 reading list: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed annually from September 15 to October 15, we asked our members to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration. (Learn…

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Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including Ester Cuervos and Marcy Rae Henry in ALOCASIA for this list!

Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP)@clmporg.bsky.social · last wk.

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating by picking your next reads from our 2026 reading list: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

"Maybe you were meant to be a corpse flower, lying dormant for ten years and smelling awful when you finally wake, but still, crowds of people come from miles away to marvel at you." —Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom :: “For the Chronically Ill” alocasia.org/2025/12/15/e...

"Maybe you were meant to be a corpse flower, lying dormant for ten years and smelling awful when you finally wake, but still, crowds of people come from miles away to marvel at you." —Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom :: “For the Chronically Ill” alocasia.org/2025/12/15/e...

"At night I count the ways my stems have forgotten to reach out. How my flowers fold into themselves like little secrets. I pretend this wilt is from the weather. More salt for the soil." —Winter Doe alocasia.org/2026/08/11/w...

"At night I count the ways my stems have forgotten to reach out. How my flowers fold into themselves like little secrets. I pretend this wilt is from the weather. More salt for the soil." —Winter Doe alocasia.org/2026/08/11/w...

we reopen for new work on october 1 🌿🌿🌿

"The transverse section of a water lily ovary is delicate and ornate as a snowflake but tinged cerulean at the outer edges. Individual balls of pollen with spikes are magnified to enormous sizes and resemble translucent blowfish." —Kim Roberts alocasia.org/2023/03/20/k...

"The transverse section of a water lily ovary is delicate and ornate as a snowflake but tinged cerulean at the outer edges. Individual balls of pollen with spikes are magnified to enormous sizes and resemble translucent blowfish." —Kim Roberts alocasia.org/2023/03/20/k...

"there was a pineapple plant in his living room when I came back I never saw it fruit, but after I left him again I made a playlist called pineapple plant trying to contain the feeling of being in the same space as him" —Lex Lanza alocasia.org/2026/08/11/l...

"78 images, each one telling a story. And oh, what stories they tell! The human journey, daily life, and omens of futures yet to be written!" –Theresa Reed sundress-publications.square.site/product/-sp-...

"there was a pineapple plant in his living room when I came back I never saw it fruit, but after I left him again I made a playlist called pineapple plant trying to contain the feeling of being in the same space as him" —Lex Lanza alocasia.org/2026/08/11/l...

we reopen for new work on october 1 🌿🌿🌿

yay ty @alocasiamag.bsky.social i am honored (& v thankful) to be nominated this year!!🧃🍓🥺

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're so proud to announce ALOCASIA's 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Award nominees! Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey Blue Đào Nguyễn Anangookwe Wolf June Beck Jake Salazar james achusiogu Morgan Swank nawa angel alviar horton Zoe Adrien Lapa Read them & more: ALOCASIA.org