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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 18/03/2026

The 2026 finalists in Bi Fiction: And I'll Take Out Your Eyes by A. M. sosa. Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories by @ellomelissa.bsky.social. House of Beth by @kermichele. Sympathy for Wild Girls by Demree McGhee. The Salvage by Anbara Salam. #Lammys2026

Image of 5 book covers representing the 2026 finalists for the Lammy Award in Bisexual Fiction

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Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Huge thanks to mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 Launch stars @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman & ❤️ to our amazing audience! And we were honored to kick off the paperback tour for Justin's incredible novel Reboot!

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

picked this up because @livesinpages.bsky.social recommended it in "Short Story, Long's fave story collections of 2025!" and holy shit was just knocked out by the first/title story. I know it is early still, but probs my fave story of the year so far. Incredible banger.

Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive, stories by Melissa Lozada-Oliva

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Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Next Monday, January 12, 8pm: Excited to launch the 2026 Franklin Park Reading Series season with stellar authors @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden, and Ali Kriegsman! #Free shorturl.at/yTq9W

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Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Monday, 8pm, at Franklin Park Reading Series: We're thrilled to host @justintaylor.bsky.social for the NYC paperback celebration of his brilliant novel Reboot, w/stellar authors @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights #Free

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Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

MONDAY, 8PM: Excited to host supertalented authors @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! #Free raffle for our readers' stunning books! Details: shorturl.at/yTq9W #crownheights #freeadmission

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

jonny you are a darling for giving me this opportunity to self promote. passing that opportunity along to newsletter authors whose stuff i read EVERY time: @nikostratis.com , @erinrwilliams.bsky.social , @lukeoneil47.bsky.social , @ellomelissa.bsky.social , and the beautiful devin kelly

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

We're thrilled to share the story "Heads" from @ellomelissa.bsky.social's collection Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! It's weird, it's unsettling, it's a little gross...and it's one of our most anticipated reads of the year 🪓 reactormag.com/excerpts-bey...

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Read an Excerpt From Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva - Reactor

An ethereal and revelatory short story collection about faith, delusion, and the demons that can’t get enough of us.

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Join @raxkingisdead.bsky.social at Lost City Books in DC tonight at 7 p.m. for a conversation with @ellomelissa.bsky.social (BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE!). It's our Spotlight Event: www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/mel... #booksky

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

where my dense breast girlies at im about to get a mammogram

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

final copies for BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE! Came in. if you pre-ordered from BOOKS ARE MAGIC you get a beautiful original print booksaremagic.net/item/MexlWhz... Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva | SMITH STREET LOCATION

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Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! by Melissa Lozada-Oliva | Books Are Magic

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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Excited to add @ellomelissa.bsky.social to the 2025 lineup! Preorder Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/beyo... Listen to all episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Ameen family 🇵🇸🍉 @ameengaza2025.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m breaking down., I’m begging you—my life is on the line. Every second that passes, I’m slipping closer to the edge. I need your help. Please share my GoFundMe link.. You might be the reason I survive. Please… share it, repost it—help my voice be heard!” gofund.me/84aa6b44

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

We will be reading and laughing and drinking while also supporting the Iowa Abortion Access Fund… You don’t wanna miss this. @lyz.bsky.social @alisonleiby.bsky.social @ellomelissa.bsky.social @felipetmedina.bsky.social @taylorkayphillips.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/red-state-...

The Freya Project
In support of Iowa Abortion Access Fund
Hosted by Lyz Lenz
with Maris Kreizman, Alison Leiby, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Felipe Torres Medina, Taylor Kay Phillips

Upstairs at Berry Park
4 Berry Street Brooklyn
Wednesday, June 11 7pm

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

GALLEYS CAME IN!!! I’ve been working on these stories since 2019 I feel really proud and happy !!!!

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

if you ever ask for earl grey tea iced you should be struck down by god

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A life without trans people in it is a pretty shitty life.

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I need to be a xanned out housewife and just not look at the news

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

im so old but i dont think I like using StoryGraph and seeing reading as a statistic

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

it’s kind of nuts that I know two people who are getting fired bc of musk like ???

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

it’s actually exhausting not taking anything for granted and saying I love you all the time. actually taking things for granted is nice and may we all be able to feel peace and comfort and silliness and not think of the worse thing that could happen when someone walks out the door

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 24/02/2025

March is right around the corner—check out our incredible classes. Act quick, these classes sell out. Plus, there are still some early bird discounts available! 🐣 Learn more and register: at.pw.org/classes @alissonwood.bsky.social @mollymcghee.bsky.social @shelleywong.bsky.social

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

rich people are too concerned with living forever instead of their actual legacy. build a train that works and name it after yourself. fund the arts. stop chugging collagen and digesting infant blood and being a little bitch

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

No one says “woke” more than republicans they’re obsessed with that word

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Every poet either wants a university gig or job at CHANI

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

say what you will about the ultra rich of 150 years ago, at least they built libraries and roads

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adrienne rg @adriennerg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I loved Candelaria and Dreaming of You, so this is most excellent news - check those out while you wait for the new collection!

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Anna Rose Holmer @annaroseholmer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is the cover for my collection of short stories BEYOND ALL REASONABLE DOUBT, JESUS IS ALIVE! Out September 2nd, 2025. You can pre-order starting NOW. Alive ! bookshop.org/p/books/beyo...

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

😱 TERROR Y MONSTROS! 😱 Come down to Ghoulish Books to check out our new latine horror reads display! All titles also available in our webstore (we ship!) at ghoulish.rip.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

meli featured me in READING SUCKS (and catch her early blurb about SLOPPY, too!!) ellomelissa.substack.com/p/january-di...

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“I don’t think a writer can write worth a damn if her mind doesn’t wander.” New READING SUCKS with @raxkingisdead.bsky.social ! Please subscribe so I can get off of other social media lol ellomelissa.substack.com/p/january-di...

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January Distractions & Reads

Rax King, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Borges?

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I know all presidents are bad etc etc but it feels so insane to have a fascist moron run the country for four years

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

if you ever think about how the world got more conservative bc of the internet you just don’t want to be on the internet at all

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

feel scared and disgusted by the amount of people who have said well it’s only criminals he’s deporting

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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

hey so not only is this explicitly targeting trans youth, it is also state-mandated propaganda, which is something im pretty sure ive been told “our enemies” do

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

it’s so arbitrary to rate a movie I’m not doing that shit anymore

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u4ic.bsky.social @u4ic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

While watching Nosferatu, a doctor states "She will rave all night." Willem Dafoe's character strongly states, "Then rave she must!" Simultaneously, I and basically our entire row of friends start quietly dancing, miming glowsticks. This is part of why we sit in the very back row. Then I made this

Embroidery on a white paisley print fabric. At the top it says, "She will rave all night" and at the bottom it says, "Then rave she must!" Both in a Gothic font. In the center is a cartoonish rendering of Lily Rose Depp's character from Nosferatu in bright blue slatted glasses, black hair in a bun, lips pursed. She is wearing a white night dress with corset. Both arms are raised with glow sticks in each hand, yellow on the left, orange on the right. She wears an orange glow necklace and pink and yellow glow bracelets on her left arm.
She must rave.

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Finally slept in our apartment after six weeks of being gone and dreamt of keep our cat safe from the streets …. His parasites are creeping back in

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Every day I’m so depressed about the state of literacy in the US

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

back injury that defined his life …. bisexual ……unibrow. close enough welcome back Frida Kahlo

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

October was your Floral Symmetry Mother in Law Popsicle Moment

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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

September was your accidental encounter with alien life forms cat walk moment

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