technically it’s still may so 🐀✌️ happy mental health awareness month! here are poems from my hybrid book in celebration AWC is about diagnosis, institutional violence, bipolar, & batman. writing this book was so instrumental in accepting my diagnosis 🩵 link in bio!
Bri Gonzalez
@brigonzalez.bsky.social
author of A WELLNESS CHECK, out now w/ @gameoverbooks.bsky.social // bgwriting.org // they/them 🐀
I am holding it together with coffee, mild delusion, and the vague idea that something beautiful might happen to me for no reason.
oh hey i forget about this website but i have a little book out with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, shout out to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for literally everything: fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/goo...
GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta
About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...
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It's that time again. More info at the link in bio.
My debut collection TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE is coming October from Stillhouse Press! I put my whole heart into this book, and it’ll be out in autumn: just the season for fortune telling, scary story swapping, strange skin wearing, and pinky promising…
ICE raided a popular restaurant in a San Diego neighborhood. About 3 dozen agents, some in full tactical gear, arrested restaurant workers while patrons were enjoying dinner. The ICE agents didn't expect a resounding rejection by neighbors & patrons. The community spontaneously protested.
Morning. Barn Swallow, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1869.
It’s been one month since the release of my debut collection, THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who ordered it. And if you haven’t, this could still be you!
10am. 1st June. Our first anniversary subs open 🦝 No theme for this one - just a strong story with a great voice. Make us feel something. Make it linger. Any genre. trashcatlit.com/general-subm...
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aight giving this app a whirl again 🧍 i’ll start w/ an offering, aka my newest fixation (sleep token), & if you’ve listened to the new album…. pls hmu
Kicking off our new year of short fiction, we're pleased to share "More of You" by Anjali Ravi necessaryfiction.com/stories/more...
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Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Your new favorite publisher: Game Over Books.
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Looking for another great indie press deal? @gameoverbooks.bsky.social books are 51% off at checkout today if you put in code "hellyeah," meaning you can likely get my chapbook w/ shipping for under $13!!! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/woma...
Woman as Communion — Megan McDermott — Game Over Books
Woman as Communion is a chapbook that reckons with, but is not resigned to, the patriarchal past and present of the poet’s Christian faith. Through poems that inhabit the experiences of both bib...
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@gameoverbooks.bsky.social’s titles are 51% off today w/ code hellyeah at checkout 👀👀 meaning you can get my little rat book at a very very good price! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...
A Wellness Check — Bri Gonzalez — Game Over Books
There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors. Bri Gonzalez’s debu...
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today’s mood: behind-the-scenes emmett cullen holding a bag of eggs he can’t eat, right next to a counseling poster. we call this surviving not thriving
check it out!! & check out SG’s substack—it’s abundant w/ community, resistance, queer power. honored to be interviewed by them 🩵
I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:
I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:
a conversation with Bri Gonzalez, author of A Wellness Check
queer poetics! bipolar poetics! Chicanx poetics! pop-culture poetics! so many exclamation marks!
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also… baby’s first fiction publication? 🫣 grateful to have this flash piece in issue 31 of four way review! fourwayreview.com/last-faces-p...
two new poems out in cuéntame lit w/ my fave issuemate @sgpoet.bsky.social ❤️❤️ go support this new latinx run magazine! the whole issue is a banger: cuentameliterary.com/2024/11/15/d...
Duolingo Foundations 3, Section 4: Trailblazer & Other Poem | Cuéntame Literary
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It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️
bluesky! my batman parody collection was published two months ago! 🐀 if you’re into critiques of how media portrays & commodifies mental illness w/ a side of absurdism, you can order here: www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/a-we...
A Wellness Check — Bri Gonzalez — Game Over Books
There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors. Bri Gonzalez’s debu...
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"i understood the way soft necks adhered to wood stalk & drank light to their death—" Read "ABSCISSION THEORY" by Elliot Rose Winter in beestung #1
Three Poems by Elliot Rose Winter – beestung
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I made a list of the literary magazines and small presses I’ve found here so far. Definitely not comprehensive, I’m sure I’ve missed lots. Feel free to tag any I’ve missed in the comments. go.bsky.app/PBU24ts