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Bleating Thing Magazine

@bleatingthing.bsky.social

A twice-annual magazine of poetry, flash fiction, essays, hybrid work, & visual art. EIC @cursetheground.bsky.social More on our website: https://tinyurl.com/5vnsajea

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Bleating Thing Magazine@bleatingthing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dearest Bleating Things: we will not be opening for submissions this June. We will resume our normal publishing schedule this December. Any contributors eligible during fall 2025-summer 2026 award considerations will still be nominated. Warm wishes from our flock to yours. See you soon! 🐑💕

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс@rozalijagrace.com · 3mo ago

The internet's hottest new club is my poem in @bleatingthing.bsky.social. This piece has *everything*: Greek mythology, grain alcohol, Sufis, swimming pools, longing, despair, the Fall of Constantinople . . . (But, like, it's in a *packed* nightlife district. I won't be offended if you barhop.)

a man sitting at a desk with a snl logo in the corner

ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a snl logo in the corner

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Bleating Thing Magazine@bleatingthing.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Issue 05 is live now on our new site! (🔗 In bio). Celebrating and interrogating the theme of classical statuary, the issue features stunning works by the following contributors:

K.M. Hanslik@kmhanslik.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@monarch.gay inaugural issue is now live! Read my piece “sanctimonious,” originally published by @bleatingthing.bsky.social , in this issue! So honored & elated to be a part of this! 🦋 monarch.gay/sanctimonious/

sanctimonious - Monarch Queer Literary Awards

by K.M. HanslikBleating Thing Magazine Behind the junkyard where I usedto wish myself away—the child’s heart you kept buriedbeneath steel, & me calling it stupid, saying thisis where things go to forg...

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Bleating Thing Magazine@bleatingthing.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're so proud of all our nominees! Congratulations to @godstained.bsky.social, @connorsartroom.bsky.social , @kmhanslik.bsky.social, and, of course, to @esichr.bsky.social.

Monarch Queer Literary Awards@monarch.gay · 7mo ago

We are elated to announce the awardees and finalists for MONARCH 2026. Thank you to all of the organizations who nominated work for making our first anthology so stunning 🦋 and a special shoutout to @esichr.bsky.social and @bleatingthing.bsky.social for the beautiful cover photograph!

The cover of Monarch 2026. A photo of a person lying on their back in a field of tall grass with their left arm covering their face. Text reads Monarch 2026, a queer literary awards anthology published by fifth wheel press.
Bleating Thing Magazine@bleatingthing.bsky.social · 8mo ago

!! THEME REVEAL !! for Issue 05 This issue, we are seeking poetry, flash, essays, hybrid work, & visual art surrounding the theme FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT: sculpture garden / classical statuary Submissions open DEC 1 Keep your eyes peeled - we'll be posting prompts this week to inspire you!

Against a backdrop of marble, a flower grows from a broken statue of a bird in a cupped pair of hands. The statue is obscured by the text, which announces: ISSUE 05: FRAGMENTS OF A PAINTED CULT sculpture garden/classical statuary The image is colored pale shades of green & pink.Against a backdrop of marble, a stone-hewn lamb gazes up at its robed shepherd. The text bubble reads: For this theme, we challenge submitters to explore & respond not just to artworks themselves, but the very concept of "classical." Who decides what is "classical?" Who/what is excluded from that scope? What are the dangers of clinging to iconography that reifies harmful traditions? The image is colored pale shades of green. Against a backdrop of marble, a staff-wielding shepherd gazes out at his flock, a lamb nestled in the crook of his arm. The text bubble reads: SUBMISSIONS OPEN DEC 1 BLEATINGTHINGMAGAZINE.COM