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Callie Jennings

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Heaven bless the babe. What queer books she must have read. she | threemachineexpression.substack.com

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prismata.press @prismata.press · 12h
We're celebrating the one year anniversary of the release of "Machines of Consent" by giving the e-book away for free! For the next 24 hours, you can head over to: prismata-press.itch.io/machines-of-... And get a copy full of trans lesbian spice and romance for free! Enjoy!
Free Today Celebrating the one-year release anniversary of Machiens of Consent a lesbian transfemme cyberpunk novel by Sophia Turner with graphics of main characters from book cover.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 21h
With scam artists empowered by LLMs, writers and editors have common cause to worry about submissions. That's why Emerging Tech is gathering @bonabooks.bsky.social, @reckoningmag.bsky.social, & SFWA Publications for I SWEAR I'M NOT A ROBOT Tues, Oct 13 at 1pm PT. RSVP today! sfwa.org/events/?even...
Emerging Tech Presents... I Swear I'm Not a Robot: How Publishers Are Handling the Pressure to Confirm Human Authorship
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jesus. That's how it's done.
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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 05/10/2026
Bluesky I have a question: what are your favourite very short poems in English? (very short I am defining as 32 beats / 6 lines pentameter / 8 lines ballad meter / 10 lines trimeter / 50 words vers libre max)
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
!remindme 48 years
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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honored to be in this anthology alongside so many poets I admire deeply. Out this November. More to come ✨
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank You!

23 trans, Crip, queer, & sick writers are embarking this week on a FREE critique
journey and it’s all thanks to you.

Every book sold supports not only
its author but the many incredible
trans & Crip voices still yet to come. 

Crip & trans art forever.
We’ve always been here.

kithbooks.com
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This group is so cool and (sorry to rub it in, wim) I feel so lucky to be in a room with them. Thanks to everyone who's ever supported @kithbooks.bsky.social, this thing you've helped to make possible is going to midwife some wild work into the world.
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Aster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New story! A man gets an assignment to save a lake and uncovers a secret. Also, there's a fish-twink. smokeandmold.net/issue-14-fal...
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"...you were covered in your own sweat / sometimes people just want to be forgiven / you said that / there will be a garden during the apocalypse / because there still has to be something that survives /" —Blue Đào Nguyễn alocasia.org/2026/04/22/b...
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Blue Đào Nguyễn :: “an ode to having a heart outside of itself disguised as shit posts on the internet” – ALOCASIA
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EASEL @readeasel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Submissions close TOMORROW get 'em in
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Read the sweet & funny & perfect @kymdeyn.bsky.social one with the very long title!!! (othersidespec.com/pieces/tikta...) (and then read the rest!)
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will have all of eternity in which to be humble, while I have but a few short years to be pretentious. -- Mary Ruefle, "Lectures I Will Never Give"
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Jadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I Am Not Dead, Yet: A Mesostic for Janet Fanjón" On a disappearance in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas in 2011. I wrote this in 2015, & I am still thinking about, looking for how to keep writing about Janet Fanjón (and all the other murdered and disappeared). bombmagazine.org/articles/201...
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BOMB Magazine | I Am Not Dead, Yet: A Mesostic for Janet Fanjón
On a disappearance.
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
screamed out loud at the finale of @midstpodcast.bsky.social (Midst proper, haven't visited the follow-ups), I had that mortality heartbreak that you get approaching the last pages of the best best books, it's so good, you should also listen to it while cleaning the fridge.
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oh, the passage of time in this one!
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 21/09/2026
No company is going to survive in the future without understanding short stories. Short stories are about amplifying human potential, not replacing it. If you don’t have an short story strategy, you’re going to die in the world that’s coming.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 21/09/2026
And... By far, the greatest danger with short stories is that people conclude too early that they understand them.
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
still plenty of room here!
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fairies [faggots] don't exist in a taxonomy of, like, you were born this and you'll always be this. It's literally, like, what you make the daring choices to become, you will have always been. -- BLeeM
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Garden State >>> Needlemancy > Thicctis > Pins & Needles
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Jackie Sabbagh @jackiesabbagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So thrilled to announce my debut novel, Transexual Heartbreak Disaster Project, will release next May from HarperCollins. I can’t wait for you to read. #THDP
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Announcing ANMLY's 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Award nominees! Callie Jennings Tashiana Seebeck Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin Ernest Ohia Angelina Luo Kara Crawford Ruby Wang Courtney Ebert yating Nicole Arocho Hernández Apollo Chastain Ṭaus al Chalabi Read them! ANMLY.org!
ANMLY's 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Award nominees

Callie Jennings 
Tashiana Seebeck
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin
Ernest Ohia
Angelina Luo
Kara Crawford
Ruby Wang
Courtney Ebert
yating
Nicole Arocho Hernández
Apollo Chastain
Ṭaus al Chalabi
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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 16/09/2026
HOLY SMOKES 😭 Congratulations Gwen Aube, finalist for the 2026 #DayneOgilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers from the @writerstrust.bsky.social!!!! Congrats to the other finalists Tiana Reid and @mishasolomon.bsky.social and thanks to the jury!!! Winner announcement Nov. 10 😎
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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 14/09/2026
Get ready people, because Sloane Murphy is coming to a town near YOU 🫵 Just picture it, all the queers converging on a single point in space and time, a singularity of too-cool lesbian love all at your local dive/indie bookstore 🌌
Poster for Shut Up I love you launch tour. Philadelphia at Val's lesbian bar 10/23, Brooklyn at Starr Bar and Franklin Park on 10/25 and 10/26 respectively, Chicago at Reed's Local on 11/6, Minneapolis at Moon Palace books on 11/12 and St. Louis at Left Bank Books on 11/19
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i often think wolverine is more like Larkin’s parents, in that he fucks you up.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The light is brighter now but no more comforting and all we want is fried rice, safety, to skip the muddy breaking of the spring." - @egnlafleur.bsky.social, Period Drama www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/thema...
The Magi Come To Toronto
E.G.N. Lafleur

A section of Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble), a late 15th century British textile that depicts angels in gold on a background of red. The title and author's name are written over the image in all caps serif in white. A white border surrounds.Period drama

Blood in the bed.
Products of conception:
pro-life Catholics,
a queer grunge band.
You decide. The wind
whips between luxury stores,
salt on the glass faces.

Blood in the bed.
Remdesivir, Spironolactone.
Three fingers, a crust of bread,
trans joy.
This is the other poetry of madness and desire.

Blood in the bed.
A wound that will not heal:
the fisher king, the holy lance.
The smell of iron mixed with soap, the froth
pouring from the washing machine
like the melting ice, translucent grey
with water running underneath.

The light is brighter now but no more comforting
and all we want is fried rice, safety, to skip
the muddy breaking of the spring.
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"A Canyon of Blood for the Normalest Man Alive" by @wyrm.ing in EMBODIED EXEGEIS this story perfectly replicates the feeling of showing up online after a year away and having no fucking clue what anyone is even saying
A CANYON OF BLOOD FOR THE NORMALEST MAN ALIVE
Palimrya
you shuffle in for your daily shit and cringe like i’m a jumpscare. like i’m antique creepypasta, staining your senses for swiping a
sus link as you went for your fly. you thumb your gumline node to check if you’re up.
nope, you’re in color. this is your bathroom, sir, and i’m in it. you make to throttle me, but then you see what i’m holding. i’m gonna keep talking, okay? i’m gonna say some stuff.
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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our friends at Room Magazine are currently fundraising in order to keep the magazine going. The fund will support the production of the journal and pay contributors and staff. You can donate, or purchase or bid on fantastic auction items here: app.galabid.com/save-room-ma...
Graphic for the save Room magazine fundraiser. The graphic reads, keep Canada's oldest feminist literary magazine alive. Bid on these and more. The graphic also shows the items available for bidding: art and stickers, headshot sessions, tattoo tickets, workshops and consultations, spa vouchers, festival passes, and books and magazines.
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
you want this story and this collection!!!
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mosh pit daria @greatearlofhell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
gimme your queer desire pieces!!!!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Such a good new issue of @nplusonemag.com, with a new short story from a new favorite, Maria Marchinkoski: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/fic...
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Anything You Want | Maria Marchinkoski
I had hidden everything. Monitors were not allowed to talk about themselves with residents. We could lose pay, placement, and good standing. You can find me in the DSM, I said.
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
love this one, opens with gay Beatlemania and gets even better from there
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EASEL @readeasel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Submissions for EASEL 04 are now open 🙂‍↕️ submit(at)readeasel.com
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
everyone's emails today start with: I've been putting this off because... so I'm here to remind you it's really this easy. RPGs, poetry, visual novels? cohort two's applicants are all kinds of cool there is still time to get your name in kithbooks.com/cohorttwo
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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I chose this one because it turns out we both loved and used the OED. A lot. I’ve always found its entries a great way to think my way into a subject
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
from the outset i told Callie (@aporianautics.bsky.social) i was going to be envious of the room she'd be in. i had no idea. the tf applications have me [let me in meme] i'm still sorting out follow ups so get your name in
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Drop a line to wim expressing interest by the end of the day today - if you've been thinking about it, we want to hear from you!
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eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10
graphical abstract of the manuscript depicting pink estrogen-sensitive neurons with a subset of their nuclei colored in green. These green nuclei represent estrogen receptor dependent neural gene transcription, tracked via the expression of a destabilized GFP with a 2 hour half-life. At top, in green is shown a cartoon of the neural response to estrogen across two estrous cycles, and below there is a cartoon of a mouse implanted with an optic fiber for in vivo imaging.
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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 26/08/2026
i was unsure of this when i published it. i wrote it from the depths of long covid in a year without music. the final paragraphs plagued me for months. i worried the themes and symbols were too many, too messy, too obvious or obscure. i finally read it again, and no. it goes so fucking hard!!! fuck
screenshot which reads: “seeds tinkle on through the balcony grate and down into nothing, down into dark. In her daze Madly sees some wretch of a tree, bruting up from the neon swamp at the bottom of all, burned and battered back in its rise but breaching ever on, its branches a bastard's panoply of radioactive light and dripping sick drupes of cadmium red, galena blue, all gorging up and out into the clemence of a pervert sky.”
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
in case you missed it: Way Downstream, our new special anthology of long-form prose, is out! purchase and download info at fifthwheelpress.com/anths
fifthwheelpress.com
anthologies — fifth wheel press
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blue đào nguyễn @bluenguyen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
kith books is launching a transfeminine workshop! Callie (@aporianautics.bsky.social) will be facilitating! i was v lucky to get to share space w Callie during workshop in cohort one and she truly is a talented poet and thoughtful workshop peer & i trust she’ll do a great job facilitating :)
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There are a lot of wildly good essays in this collection but this one spoke to me today, as I navigate circumstances bringing my parents and me back into closer touch & try to figure out how to relate to our shared history. Thanks for it, Mx. Ball <3
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New for cohort two: a transfeminine workshop option! Huge thanks to @aporianautics.bsky.social for helping us offer (the first of many?) population specific kith crit workshop spaces. kithbooks.com/cohorttwo
kith crit: cohort two 
a grassroots critique workshop for the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

New for cohort two:
kith crit includes a transfeminine specific option!

Under the leadership of Callie Jennings, you’ll have the chance to share and workshop your writing within a cohort of peers. Still Crip and sick inclusive, the transfeminine only workshop will give you all the same access and resources as our general workshop within the comfort of a purpose built group.


Send a writing sample and a brief statement outlining the reasons for your interest to wim@kithbooks.com

if you’d like your submission read by Callie only, feel free to say

wim@kithbooks.com
kithbooks.com/cohorttwo
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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
☀️ summer issue's up ☀️ ft. @bluenguyen.bsky.social, @thrillandgrace.bsky.social, & more! voicemailpoems.org/2026/08/24/s...
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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hey quick question, do you guys like gay wrestling and erotic violence? lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...
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PRE-ORDER | Issue 02: IDOLS
COMING IN FALL 2026 Saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations. The movement leaders who have become canonized. The objects on your altar. The first trans person you ever knew. Late night prayers and ...
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I know many of us don't have the time/confidence/spoons to write elaborate essays of introduction so I'm sharing this simplified post again and dropping an equally simple application template in the reply.
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blue đào nguyễn @bluenguyen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
here are snippets from self portrait as a container (prev published in HS,WTIIIVN? in 2025) & is available now online in @voicemailpoems.bsky.social for their Summer 2026 Issue! 2nd set of snippets is from a poem titled marsroverlovesong.mp3 & I am thankful @manyworlds.place's for giving it a home!
self-portrait as a container poem over white background with black text, overlaid on top of a photocap of a video I took of cows from the farm I worked at and vegetation and the sunset and a fence. self-portrait as a container poem over white background with black text, overlaid on top of a photocap of a video I took of cows from the farm I worked at and vegetation and the sunset and a fence. marsroverlovesong.mp3 poem over white background with black text, overlaid on top of a photocap of a video I took of hills and mountains from the farm I worked at and vegetation, grass, and mountains/hills. marsroverlovesong.mp3 poem over white background with black text, overlaid on top of a photocap of a video I took of hills and mountains from the farm I worked at and vegetation, grass, and mountains/hills.
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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
ummmmmm.... daaaaaaaamn, wow, this is fun company to be in
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
it's a beautiful day to surround yourself with other trans, Crip, queer, and/or sick writers; to invest in community; to invest in yourself.
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