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✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Nominate work, litmag editors!! We can't wait to start reading the definitely incredible subs <3

Monarch Queer Literary Awards@monarch.gay · 12mo ago

The Monarch Queer Literary Awards are now open for nominations until November 30, 2025! Visit our website (monarch.gay) to learn more about us and how editors can nominate work. 🦋

We're open! Monarch Queer Literary Awards, September 1 to November 20, 2025, monarch.gay

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm getting a tattoo today, which is a lot of pain for a lot of beauty at the end of it and then that made me think about the poetry editing process which is similar, and then I thought that it's TWO MONTHS EXACTLY since my debut came out, which you can buy at this link❤️ share.google/unJW7opFecm3...

kith in print

Through the language of myth, legend, and religion, Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott's Gospels for the Tongue-Tied looks ahead to adulthood through the eyes of an autistic ungendered being womaned before god....

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Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · last yr.

Lit mag editors, would you like to submit work for consideration for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards? Check out our submission guidelines so you know what's eligible (and what isn't). Submissions open September 1:

Submission Guidelines - Monarch Queer Literary Awards

When to submit We will accept submissions from September 1, 2025 through November 30, 2025. All decisions will be sent within a month after the reading period closes. We aim to publish an anthology of...

monarch.gay

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

So excited to be on the team for this beautiful award!!!! Please submit to us, editors, it'll be exciting and beautiful and fun!

Monarch Queer Literary Awards@monarch.gay · last yr.

Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋 Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay

Hi, we’re Monarch. Monarch Queer Literary Awards is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. We aim to uplift the groundbreaking and often under-celebrated poems, short stories, essays, and artwork that are published in magazines, chapbooks, zines, and other collections.

D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · last yr.

mail day! it's the new @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social from @kithbooks.bsky.social, GOSPELS FOR THE TONGUE-TIED www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/gospels

GOSPELS FOR THE TONGUE-TIED,
by Qetsiah Joachim-Baggott,
featuring a dark brown background with sepia colored line drawings of a dissected beetle

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · last yr.

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom. @bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 at 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

AAAAAHHH!!!! ITS RELEASE DAY!!! If you were holding off before there's no excuse now, please buy my book!!!

kith books@kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Gospels For the Tongue-Tied by Qetsiah Baggott-Joachim HAPPY RELEASE DAY, @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social!!! get your copy now! Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/gospels eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/gospels

A beetle separated and reduced to its external anatomical components is rendered in a glowing light orange on a background of rich dark reddish brown. Text reading "GOSPELS FOR THE TONGUE-TIED" AND "QETSIAH JOACHIM-BAGGOT" appear at the top and bottom respectively in the same orange.

text:
"Each poem in gospels is urgent, each poem is wild"
- Aldrin Badiola

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

AAAAAHHH!!!! ITS RELEASE DAY!!! If you were holding off before there's no excuse now, please buy my book!!!

kith books@kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Gospels For the Tongue-Tied by Qetsiah Baggott-Joachim HAPPY RELEASE DAY, @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social!!! get your copy now! Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/gospels eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/gospels

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so so so so so excited for this!!! You should definitely come along, MJ and I never struggle for things to talk about, especially poetry themed, so it'll be a good time

Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · last yr.

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom. @bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so so so so so excited for this!!! You should definitely come along, MJ and I never struggle for things to talk about, especially poetry themed, so it'll be a good time

Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · last yr.

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom. @bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

I placed my trust in the hands of a stranger, and told them that I was moulded from love. - Curse for the Old Beloved @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social kithbooks.com/shop/p/gospels

kith in print

Through the language of myth, legend, and religion, Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott's Gospels for the Tongue-Tied looks ahead to adulthood through the eyes of an autistic ungendered being womaned before god....

kithbooks.com

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Gospels for the Tongue-Tied lives within and without the projects of gender and religion in an attempt to carve out a space for the self. @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social

Gospels For the Tongue-Tied
Qetsi'ah Baggott-Joachim

cover:
A beetle separated and reduced to its external anatomical components is rendered in a glowing light orange on a background of rich dark reddish brown. Text reading "GOSPELS FOR THE TONGUE-TIED" AND "QETSIAH JOACHIM-BAGGOT" appear at the top and bottom respectively in the same orange.

text:
MAYBE I’M NOT HERE AT ALL

Maybe I’m sitting in a stairwell at Birmingham New Street station
watching all the trains cruise in and out like ferry boats pulled by the ocean
pretending that the departures board above my head is something
that will tell me how to come home to you
again

Maybe now that I have left the concrete city the pigeons
hover above the powerlines looking around as though
they are bricks from the grey buildings in this city blinking
with the anticipatory wonder of a newborn calf fluttering their wings as though
free

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

we're having a bright book filled summer! all four are available for pre-order at kithbooks.com/shop @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @popelizbet.bsky.social

kith June/July releases
pre-orders are open now at kithbooks.com/shop

Jump Cut
Helen Gu
cover:
three red snappers hang to dry over a place setting on a table. their tails are obscured in orange smoke

Gospels for the Tongue-Tied
Quetsiah Joachim-Baggott
cover:
an anatomical breakdown diagram of a beetle

WOLFCANNON
C. J. Selwyn
a woman and a wolf face off across a table. in the demolished wall behind them, a wolf silhouette howls out the sun

Is My Chainsaw A Heart: 13 Centos
cover:
a green canoe floats at the end of a dock leading out into water surrounded by woods. a human heart hovers above.
Elizabeth R. McClellan

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

Go buy everyone's amazing books!! Also mine too!!

kith books@kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

we're having a bright book filled summer! all four are available for pre-order at kithbooks.com/shop @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @popelizbet.bsky.social

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · last yr.

Guys this is my book!!! It's been such a long process but it's finally available for preorder!!

kith books@kithbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Interweaving lived experience and the stories of Cassandra, Lilith, Eurydice, Delilah, and others, Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott blurs the lines between myth and reality, now and antiquity; the implications of expectation are timeless and raw. @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social link in reply

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote a new thing on my substack and realised I have never shared that here so open.substack.com/pub/qetsiaha... have this <333

January Essay Several Days Late

Or, Q tries something different

open.substack.com

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote an end of the year post on substack, so happy new year! open.substack.com/pub/qetsiahand…

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✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · 2y ago

For the uneducated - or the non British - my profile picture is the icon macca pacca, the king of children's bedtime TV here. Also it's a live photo of me jumping up and down whenever something good happens

manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 2y ago

Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social is a queer disabled poet. Their debut collection, Gospels For The Tongue-Tied, is forthcoming with Kith Books. Read portrait of a broken printer below! manyworlds.place/issue-6/qets...

[editor’s note: the film is incomplete, watch with caution]

the printer is broken
oh no. it only gives me washed out candids of someone
else’s smile.
occasionally some paper bones,
a rotten wisdom tooth hanging from
a flesh thread in a red mouth.
it’s all aquamarine and violet stained, i’ve replaced the
ink seven times now.
my printer keeps crying on my photos.
i think it’s grieving. in the night it
cries itself to sleep. in the morning
there are pictures of [garbled, incoherent] clinging to my
coffee machine.
oh no. i tried to print out an essay yesterday,
but i just got a page of someone asking me to

[editor’s note: the film cuts out here, no footage available for 30s. Don’t turn your screens off]

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you'd like to know my reaction to this news, I jumped up and down like a crazy person, on the side of the road. Totally thrilled!!!!!

manywor(l)ds :: place@manyworlds.place · 2y ago

join us in celebrating our 2024 pushcart nominees: Kai Minosh Pyle @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social Robin Gow nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social Avra Margariti @avramargariti.bsky.social Caiti Quatmann @caititalks.bsky.social Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social

Kai Minosh Pyle, TRANS NDN ARCHIVE
Robin Gow, Ziphius
nat raum, pov: a commenter on your r/ptsdhumor meme has just alerted you that you have tinnitus
Avra Margariti, Games Girls Play
Caiti Quatmann, Greetings from Glacier National Park
Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott, portrait of a broken printer

manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 2y ago

join us in celebrating our 2024 pushcart nominees: Kai Minosh Pyle @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social Robin Gow nat raum @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social Avra Margariti @avramargariti.bsky.social Caiti Quatmann @caititalks.bsky.social Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social

✨ Q ✨@iamgoingtocry.bsky.social · 2y ago

9am is too early for a lecture Especially when I feel ill