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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️

@angelvleal.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com

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Angela Liu@angelaliu.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have a new poem out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social today! It’s my first new poem of the year. “Butterfly Effect” is inspired by all the unfinished stories and all the things I wish we could take back. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/butt...

Butterfly Effect - Uncanny Magazine

I always liked this idea: how we’d walk to the end of the subway tunnel and there’d be a door where everyone was waiting on the other side with all the things we’d ever lost.   I always liked how to d...

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Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 3d ago

We are honoured to receive this award for a second time! Thank you everyone who voted for us and everyone who reads and submits to Strange Horizons! Congratulations to all the award recipients!

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 5d ago

Finally, the #2026IgnyteAwards Community Award recognizes Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre Congratulations @strangehorizons.bsky.social who also won the inaugural award in this category in 2020.

2026 Ignyte Community Award winner: Strange Horizons
Samir Sirk Morató@spicycloaca.bsky.social · 7d ago

so thrilled to be in this beautiful & devastating issue. go read all of it! ❤️‍🩹 and if you're interested in multi-POV stories, the plight of the American Chestnut, and generational Appalachian grief & rot, i have a reprint for you:

BLIGHT - OTHERSIDE

There is illness in the wind and unease in the soil. It has been here since 1904 when the first splotch of chestnut blight showed in our hills; it will be here until the last American Chestnut is dead...

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OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last wk.

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
Kym Deyn@kymdeyn.bsky.social · 7d ago

I've got a little poem with a long title in here! 🦎 It's called "Tiktaalik Rosae, or, If We Were the Earliest Example of a Link Between Fish and Tetrapods Would You Climb onto the Mudflats with Me?" 💚

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last wk.

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
arda mori 🌻@armori.bsky.social · 7d ago

"If only they knew I have counted the raindrops which dented you" Stoked to have my poem, "The Clay King" out in this beautiful issue! 👑🌾☀️ othersidespec.com/pieces/the-c...

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last wk.

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
hvmator@hvmator.bsky.social · last wk.

i wrote an essay for this issue of OTHERSIDE about fen and ovid and the demands art makes of flesh. check it out! othersidespec.com/pieces/why-d...

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last wk.

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
RJ Aurand@rjaurand.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you love Norse sagas? Nuclear semiotics? Sapphic yearning for an undead creature held in stasis by artificial light for a thousand years? Check out my story "This Is Not a Place of Honor" in Otherside Issue 3! It's free to read today! othersidespec.com/pieces/this-...

This Is Not a Place of Honor - OTHERSIDE

The partially petrified remains of the last living vampire lie preserved on an island at the top of the world, under the watchful eye of the midnight sun. Little is known about her save what survives ...

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OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last wk.

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️@nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

I couldn't be more excited to have my poem "trans/formative" in this incredible, vibrant, deeply queer magazine. It's about what it means to change yourself until the world's expectations can no longer hold you 🏳️‍⚧️💙✨️ othersidespec.com/pieces/trans...

trans/formative - OTHERSIDE

For us to be trans/formative we must first be trans/formed, our bodies unspooling from convention so that conviction instead  becomes the messy, sticky substance that drags our bones together and give...

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OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last wk.

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!
Elijah J. Mears@elijah.mea.rs · last wk.

New from me and free to read today in @othersidespec.bsky.social: Do you like climate change-induced societal collapse? Do you like devotion that puts duty to each other above institutions? Do you like tragic queer yearning? Consider: "His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine".

His Face, in the End, Inches from Mine - OTHERSIDE

The worst of it is the noise of them. The shouting, the scuff of sandal on stone, the scrape of bronze on the wood of the temple door. Hot summers and lean rains have bred discontent—crops dead in the...

othersidespec.com

Neha Sampat@nehas.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am over the moon to have my art recognized like this. Especially in this publication and on the topic of integrity! Thank you @epistemiclit.bsky.social!

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Announcing our nominees for this year’s Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay #MonarchQueerLiteraryAwards @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @romymorreo.bsky.social @nehas.bsky.social @angelvleal.bsky.social @lyfaulk.bsky.social

MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARD NOMINATIONS FICTION COLE BEAUCHAMP WHEN MY DEAD AUNT JOINS ME ON THE PROTEST MARCH ROMY MORREO | INFESTATION ART NEHA SAMPAT A? Or B? POETRY ANGEL LEAL | MY MOTHER TOLD ME SHE SAW SPIRITS ALL AROUND HER LY FAULK | IJUST WANT TO TALK Background image of a monarch butterfly alighting on a pillar
Angel L🏳️‍⚧️@angelvleal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thank you so much @epistemiclit.bsky.social for believing in our work!!!! :') And good luck to my fellow queers!! ❤️‍🔥So happy this award exists 🫂

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Announcing our nominees for this year’s Monarch Queer Literary Awards! @monarch.gay #MonarchQueerLiteraryAwards @nomad-sw18.bsky.social @romymorreo.bsky.social @nehas.bsky.social @angelvleal.bsky.social @lyfaulk.bsky.social

MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARD NOMINATIONS FICTION COLE BEAUCHAMP WHEN MY DEAD AUNT JOINS ME ON THE PROTEST MARCH ROMY MORREO | INFESTATION ART NEHA SAMPAT A? Or B? POETRY ANGEL LEAL | MY MOTHER TOLD ME SHE SAW SPIRITS ALL AROUND HER LY FAULK | IJUST WANT TO TALK Background image of a monarch butterfly alighting on a pillar