Assistant Poetry Editor Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is offering poetry consultations for everything from single poems to full-length collections through Black Lawrence Press this month! ✅️ For guidelines and fees, check out: buff.ly/TUPIGTF @blacklawrence.bsky.social @luizagurley.bsky.social

Price update: For the first time in ten years, we're adjusting our prices to keep up with rising printing costs. buff.ly/Bzi5jrA

Foglifter is coming to NYC! 🎉 Meet some of our editors and hear from Foglifter authors at a reading and reception in Brooklyn—featuring Christian Bancroft, DeeSoul Carson, Alana Craib, Bryana Dawkins, Sean Glatch, Monica Kim, b mossotti, Magenta Naaku, A.T. Steel, and Disha Trivedi.

Calling all NYC Foggies! ❤️‍🔥 Foglifter is coming to the East Coast, and we're offering a free in-person workshop for New York City residents in Brooklyn on Tuesday, August 18, 2026 from 2pm - 5pm. APPLY BY JULY 27: buff.ly/uRzV96k

"I love your descriptions of discovering dancing at clubs...it was the dancing that got you high, you describe it as “sex on a communal level: an embodied ecstatic ritual of union.” Talk more about this union, and what it allowed."

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore spoke with Hugh Ryan about his new book MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER NINETIES AND BEYOND: www.foglifterjournal.com/my-bad

Congratulations Oxford American!!! Congratulations to our fellow finalists! 🎉💞 And thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social and the judges for recognizing all of us!

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The winner of the 2026 #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence is @oxfordamerican.bsky.social! 🧨 oxfordamerican.org

Congratulations to the finalists for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! We’ll be cheering them on and announcing the winner on Thursday, June 25! www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore spoke with Hugh Ryan about his new book MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER NINETIES AND BEYOND: www.foglifterjournal.com/my-bad

Our tiny East Coast Foggie contingent of two is still beaming from a wonderful weekend in Mamdanistan for the Lambda Literary Awards! Thank you @lambdaliterary.org for the chance to celebrate so many talented 2SLGBTQIA+ artists. Three of the winners had work previously published by Foglifter:

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Fiction: The Lilac People: A Novel by Milo Todd! @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Thank you! We're honored to be recognized alongside so many wonderful publications! 🥰🌈🎉

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@foglifterpress.bsky.social is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! Celebrate with us on June 25: www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

Three cheers for the 2026 Firecracker Award magazine finalists! Come support these amazing lit mags on June 25: www.clmp.org/event/2026-f...

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It’s Give Out Day—help @foglifterpress.bsky.social reach our goal and keep creating beautiful publications for queer and trans writers!

Foglifter is a LIVING archive for queer and trans voices—now and always. 🌈 And we could use your help to keep cultivating sustainable spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ artists to thrive. 🔗 tinyurl.com/GIVEOUTFOGGIE 🌈

IT'S HERE!🌿Ecology of the Hood by Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez is now available in our shop! buff.ly/pZ2vF3V ECOLOGY OF THE HOOD is the 2025 winner of the Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize, a collaboration between Foglifter Press and Still Here San Francisco.

Come find us at Booth 105 this weekend at the Bookworm Block Party! 🌈📚️ 🌞 🗓️ When: Sunday, May 31 | 11AM - 5PM 📍 Where: Booth 105 @ Bookworm Block Party, Small Press Alley, Allston Way in Downtown Berkeley, CA And don't forget to check out the full @baybookfest schedule at baybookfest.org.

Scott Broker talks grief, lust, and loss in his debut novel THE DISAPPOINTMENT with Milo Todd. Read the full interview on our website: www.foglifterjournal.com/the-disappoi...

Oh hello @foglifterpress.bsky.social fam

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Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Congratulations to @foglifterpress.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2026 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence! www.foglifterjournal.com

thankful for @foglifterpress.bsky.social for giving this poem a home in Issue 11.1!

idk how to promote my work anymore because I’ve been cursed this year with Circumstances (&such curses) but v thankful for @foglifterpress.bsky.social for giving this poem a home in Issue 11.1 :)

Are you passionate about accessibility and bringing queer literary arts to wider audiences? We're on the search for a captioner to provide closed captioning for past and upcoming recorded events. This is a volunteer position with an honorarium. 👉 Apply by June 1 at foglifter.submittable.com

🌊 The Wilder Constellation of Aliveness: Rob Colgate interview heidi Andrea restrepo rhodes for @foglifterpress.bsky.social | 🌊https://www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-interviews-heidi

🌸 11.1 POETRY sneak peeks from contributors T Bambrick, Lily Daly, Blue Fay, and Eli V. Rahm 🔗 Print issue now available in our shop, while supplies last. www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-11-1

“I have never felt quite Human, and this has taken me down very rich and meaningful paths of reading and kinning with the strange, the creaturely, and the more-than-human..." Read more on our blog: www.foglifterjournal.com/rob-intervie...

The Softest Technology by Azad Namazie: www.foglifterjournal.com/oe-issue-11#... This desktop film weaves together political and spiritual narratives about the trans body as a form of technology that extends the human condition and injects softness into our movements

NOW AVAILABLE in our shop: Foglifter 11.1! www.foglifterjournal.com/home/now-ava... Featuring vital contemporary queer & trans voices in poetry, fiction, & nonfiction. A big thank you to Tai Ericson for our cover art "Ra’Lasia Wright."

🔥 COMING JUNE 2026: ECOLOGY OF THE HOOD by by Reggie Edmonds-Vásquez winner of the 2025 Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize.

We've reached our submission cap for poetry and fiction for print issue 11.2! So no more poetry and fiction submissions for now! If you want to send in creative non-fiction, hybrid, or drama, you have until April 1 when the our call for Issue 11.2 officially closes!

New on the Foglifter blog: Noah Ross in conversation with Evan Kennedy about Evan's novel STALLED DEATH TRAIN 🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/noah-ross-in...