More Best of the Net nominees: Fiction: @emcapettini.bsky.social and Amanda Lee Art: @sheilasquill.bsky.social @titaniayellow.bsky.social Sandra Wilcoxon

Did you ever ship Velma and Daphne? Did you ever question a relationship? Then you will love these Girl Detective shorts from @emcapettini.bsky.social in Issue 6 as much as we did! www.asteralesjournal.com/2-6-capettin...

What a treat to read this issue full of wonder and beauty with my coffee this morning—so happy two of my micros, “Velma Learns to Love a Mystery” and “Plot Diagram for the Girl Detective,” found a home here.

Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters@asteralesjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Issue 6 is here! With poems from @erindorney.bsky.social, @mrmack88.bsky.social Renee Emerson, Sunshine Lately, Jackson Benson, & Isaac Salazar, flash from @emcapettini.bsky.social and art from @christenkauffman.bsky.social & Jill Khoury! www.asteralesjournal.com/current-issu...

A big thanks to CLMP for including Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us on this year's Most Celebrated Books of 2025! www.clmp.org/news/clmp-me...

CLMP Members’ Most-Celebrated Books of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

This year was another banner year for independent literary publishing! We’re proud to share this list of CLMP member publishers’ books honored by major literary awards and featured in best-of lists in...

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Applications are due on 2/1 for Summer 2026 residencies! This summer we have fellowships for writers of color and trans writers through the Smokelong Quarterly fellowship! Scholarships are also available! www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

Over on my Facebook page there are a ton of ppl who got tickets for this evenings event at Women and Children First and are trying to unload them: Facebook.com/charliejane

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Sundress Publications is seeking members for our Reader Board. This is a remote, volunteer position with a possibility for renewal after one year. Apply by August 5, 2025. For more information, visit our website. www.sundresspublications.com/openings/#re...

Hulk Hogan, guy who helped Peter Thiel destroy Gawker, dead at 71.

Since I frequently assign the excellent book reviews Strange Horizons publishes in class, I was very happy to pay a reviewer’s contribution fee as part of the 2026 Fund Drive.

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 It's here! The Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2026 has begun! 📢 Help us raise the $20,000 we need to fund our fiction, poetry, and non-fiction for next year! Beyond that are our stretch goals including some compelling special issues! Donate at the link ⬇️

We’re in the streets in downtown Chicago.

Starting Awakened by A. E. Osworth and hell yes to this dedication.

A thread on our response to AI 🧵 ✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks. ✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms. ✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.

I picked up some soil acidifier for my hydrangeas to hopefully encourage blue and purple flowers again this year. Forever chasing the June 2022 high when my hydrangea bloomed in bisexual.

Stonewall was a riot.

Stonewall was a Riot: a Pride Month Reading List

We've put together a reading list of books about queer and trans politics, history, and liberation, offered in solidarity with everyone across the world standing up against injustice. For th...

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Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

Q: Use fo'c'sle in a sentence A: A lot of fo'c'sle misuse common nautical terms

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2025.

Audiobook Month and Pride both take place in June 💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Although, let’s be real, these months last all year long over here at Libro!) What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?

I used to say this, "my relative just has an anger problem" my therapist asked: did they routinely get in trouble at work for outbursts and fights? Me: no Therapist: well they dont have an anger problem- they can control their temper when it counts Me:

Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid@feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · last yr.

I'm telling you, that "they did the best they could" being unraveled by one question "did they show grace to others that they didn't show their children " has healed me

Trying to channel the gay audacity this Pride month and start drafting the queer detective novel of my dreams

The doodles/personalizations are fantastic. My copy of Even Greater Mistakes came with a superhero cat.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧@charliejane.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a reminder: You can pre-order Lessons in Magic and Disaster everywhere. If you pre-order from Green Apple Books (is.gd/DkQTM8) I'll sign/personalize/doodle. (Please specify in comments field.) If you send me a pre-order receipt, you get a PDF of All the Birds deleted scenes and sequel novella.

Happy Pride month! I'm so glad Lessons in Magic and Disaster is the GAYEST book I've ever written. It's about a trans witch who teaches her lesbian mom to do magic. It's about the struggle for queer liberation from the 1990s to today. It's about an 18th century transmasc icon and Georgian lesbians.

I think this is the most I’ve read in a month since 2020.

During the oral defense of my PhD exams, I was talking about the Hugo Correa scifi short story “When Pilate Said No.” Instead of saying Pilate like Pontius Pilate, I pronounced it like the exercise.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · last yr.

What’s a word that you have confidently used very incorrectly? We’ve all been there.

3 days remain!

ANMLY@anmlymag.bsky.social · last yr.

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 we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..." medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Guy who has very obviously not read a single book in his entire life, looking at the worst fucking prose ever: wow my AI is really good at writing books

The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness. Submit by the end of the day on 3/16, and we'll respond to your submission within 2 weeks. buff.ly/3SsM4QL #writingcommunity

Good morning from Norm.