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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICYMI! Lesbian poetry, hot off the press.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trying to get better about promoting my "backlist" poems, stories etc! So in honor of spooky season approaching, please enjoy this Gothic poem of mine published last October in @strangehorizons.bsky.social 🎃🖤

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog, I reviewed The Hyacinth Letter by Jenn Morea! This astounding, experimental poetry debut explores the relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman. Morea's poetry is dreamlike, fresh, and wildly queer. fifthwheelpress.com/blog/staff-r...

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Staff Review: The Hyacinth Letter by Jenn Morea — fifth wheel press

Jenn Morea ’s book, The Hyacinth Letter , was awarded the 2024 Sappho’s Prize in Poetry from Headmistress Press. She is the lyricist of the Candy Claws album Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time . H...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My copy of the Way Downstream anthology has arrived! 💙 cc @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social Get yours: fifthwheelpress.shop/products/way...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My copy of the Way Downstream anthology has arrived! 💙 cc @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social Get yours: fifthwheelpress.shop/products/way...

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a rhyming couplet for your friday: 2 more days for livewire 3 days till queer desire fifthwheelpress.com/submit

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Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our Year Five anthology is officially live! Featuring all 26 stories from 2025 and another stellar cover from our art director, it's a great addition to your digital shelves.

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 14/09/2026

Please welcome new Associate Fiction Editor, Eleanor Ball (@eleanorball.bsky.social)! When it comes to her new role, Eleanor says she’s drawn to “stories with a speculative premise” and is looking forward to “spreading the Sad Jack Agenda…” Read Eleanor’s full interview at buff.ly/feKlWQ9.

“My background is in speculative fiction, so I’m drawn to stories with a speculative premise. What if you survived getting swallowed by a whale? What if you sat beside a cryptid on your next flight? For me, the most exciting speculative, surreal, and absurd fiction uses the tools of genre to interrogate the boundaries of what we imagine to be possible in our world. It pushes us to understand ourselves, our relationships, our cultures, and our institutions in a different light, clearer yet stranger.

I’m also drawn to pieces that ride the line between prose poetry and micro fiction. I love bite-sized micros that emphasize lyric, sound, rhythm, compression, and hypersensory imagery. I’m not generally a stickler for the ‘rules' of story structure. I want to read something that makes me think ‘Wow. I will never read a story like this again.’” - Eleanor Ball

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good morning! Last night I was trying to schedule a Backlist Lit post and accidentally published it LOL, so you get this review of Larks by @hanvanderhart.bsky.social a few days early!! Larks was the best book I read last year, and I hope you love it too. backlistlit.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/b...

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Book Review: Larks by Han VanderHart

*Author’s note: This review was originally published in the fall 2025 issue of Door = Jar, which shuttered this month after eleven years. When I heard the news, I decided to rehome this piece on Ba…

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

oh baby, we're cooking something so good fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs for more info

nat raum wants to read about desire.

show me what you want.

nitty gritty:
subs open 9/21 • cap of 50

all accepted work posted
to fifth wheel press blog

this call is 18+ only

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Book Review: Larks by Han VanderHart

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

fast response event thru 11:59 EST on sunday! fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

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Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Surprise surprise! Guess who's running a Holiday Contest... 🎄🎅🎁 Open through Sept. 15th. See our submissions form for contest details: flashpointsf.com/submissions/

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UPDATE: We are open to submissions *FOR HOLIDAY-THEMED STORIES ONLY* through September 15th! Please see the submission form for further details.We are open to submissions:Feb. 1 – Mar. 31Jun.…

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am so honored to have co-edited this collection with C.M. Green and Sarah Klein. We wanted to create a space for those longer, incredible stories + essays that sometimes struggle to find a home. I hope you all love this as much as I do. Welcome way downstream 💙🌊

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Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · 01/09/2026

Editors, Monarch Queer Literary Award nominations are open until 11/30 🦋 head to our site to learn more about nominating your favorite queer writing and artwork! The 2027 anthology will be published in collaboration with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social monarch.gay/nominate

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You may have noticed we released a new issue yesterday, and we're thrilled with the responses. But we could use more subscriptions to help us continue doing this work. We're almost halfway through our seed money. Just $5 every 3 months, or $20 for a year. magazine.trollbreath.com/membership-a...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Glass publishes incredible work! Might I recommend Stone Fruit by Gardner Dorton, How to Cook a Ghost by Logan February, or My Heart is a Mausoleum But Only Out of Necessity by Stephanie Tom? Run, don’t walk, to support this invaluable poetry press!!

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Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com · 25/08/2026

@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social's new anthology is out, & the first tale you'll read is extra special to me. At a difficult time in my life, I wrote the friend I needed that Providence had not yet sent. I hope she might help you now, too. (h/t @eleanorball.bsky.social & @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social)

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Way Downstream: a long-form prose anthology - fifth wheel press's Ko-fi Shop

As fiction and nonfiction writers, we’ve often experienced the thrill of finally finishing a piece and opening a new tab to start submitting . . . on...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just a little under a month remaining! Go go go!

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

back to school and hard at work spreading the @riverriverbooks.bsky.social agenda throughout the library

A pink and blue poster that says “Read, Write, Edit, Cite”

A small poetry broadside hung on the wall above my desk

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Submissions open TODAY for livewire, a print + digital anthology from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social! We’re seeking themed poetry + flash prose + hybrid work from queer writers. We love our poets, but I’d love to see more prose this cycle! Subs close Sept. 15. fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

While I was away in the woods, we dropped a STELLAR issue of @flashpointsf.bsky.social. These stories are so good (and no bookmarks required). Read it here: flashpointsf.com/2026/06/30/i...

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Issue #3 2026

Featuring “How to Get a Head” by Marie Brennan

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The old plan was to sit a spell, then walk in flammable quiet. The new plan is to trick the whale into opening her mouth and then we get in. Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

I was missing my antlers,

so you folded me a pair,
along with some other doubles—
doves; cuffs.

I have affixed
what you built
to my skull.

If what you want
to do with paper now
is crush it into balls,
lob two in my direction.

The old plan was
to sit a spell,
then walk
in flammable quiet.

The new plan
is to trick the whale
into opening her mouth
and then we get in.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We do not have to live this way. The billionaires think they own all land. All air. All water. All thought. They don’t.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

While I was away in the woods, we dropped a STELLAR issue of @flashpointsf.bsky.social. These stories are so good (and no bookmarks required). Read it here: flashpointsf.com/2026/06/30/i...

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Issue #3 2026

Featuring “How to Get a Head” by Marie Brennan

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My beautiful copy of the Stonecoast Review arrived today! ☁️💕 & here’s a sneak peek at my contribution, a flash CNF piece about my grandmother.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I've been honored to spend the last week as a resident at Firefly Farms, working on my poetry chapbook + a brand-new novel. Thanks so much to Erin, Joe, and the entire Sundress team for all they do to cultivate this beautiful space for writers!

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thrilled to share that my essay “Sempre libera” is out in the new issue of @stonecoastreview.bsky.social. It’s about the lifelong struggle to escape things—cycles of violence, family, where you come from—and build something new. stonecoastreview.org/issue-25-cre...

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sempre libera — The Stonecoast Review

Every Sunday afternoon, she would listen to the Metropolitan Opera live. Sprawled across the living room rug, she craved the vibrations of the songs in her teeth, the way they burrowed to the back of ...

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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surely magazine @surelymag.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Eleanor Ball's (@eleanorball.bsky.social) "The Sunset" is a sinister slice of ecofiction 〰️ read the rest in issue 34 at surelymag.com 〰️

The sunset elbowed its way into the municipal water system, bursting out of washing machines and bathroom sinks.
Eleanor Ball
The Sunset

Eleanor Ball is a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Her work appears in Barnstorm, Strange Horizons, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere, and she edits for fifth wheel press. Come say hi at eleanorball.bsky.social or eleanor-ball.com.

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thrilled to have a story in @surelymag.bsky.social’s new themed issue, “big slime falls down stairs”! “The Sunset” is a piece of speculative ecofiction about what happens when the artificial boundaries between us and the natural world begin to break. surelymag.com/the-sunset

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