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meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh hey, that’s me! fifthwheelpress.com/anth9-backen...
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The next day, he received a promotion — Meagan Kane — fifth wheel press
Meagan Kane lives in Minneapolis with her wife, dodging emails and writing science fiction. Her stories have appeared in Baffling Magazine , PseudoPod , Flash Fiction Online , and Adventitious , ...
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
happy BSF szn ✨
Best Small Fictions
2026 fifth wheel press nominees

Romy Rhoads Ewing
C.M. Green
Meagan Kane
ray levy uyeda

read them all at fifthwheelpress.com/nominations
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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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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
still plenty of room here!
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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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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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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
last day!!!!
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stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
if you send us something right now i will read it IMMEDIATELY
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
wondering what to submit? think SHOCK, AWE. think about what happens to plywood when something sparks on top of it. think lightning, thunder—the sky is the limit, but we want the electricity.
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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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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
the upside-down, tie-dyed MONARCH butterfly is placed above black text which reads, "attention editors: nominations are open! read full guidelines and send work at monarch.gay/nominate"
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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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Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thrilled to have my short story "To Catch A Name" reprinted here in such great company!
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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
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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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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social best of the net nominees ✨
Best of the Net: 2026 fifth wheel press nominees

poetry
Parker Dean
Flossie Hedges
Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott
Ariana Rahman
CB Wilson
Karen Zheng

fiction
Reason Eagan Bright
Sarah Chin

nonfiction
Zoe Carver
Jade McGregor

visual art
Vincenzo Cohen
Corrina Delgado
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
let’s embrace the in-between with Traum/A by @jpseabright.bsky.social -sadee
praise for Traum/A
"explores the strange territory woundedness forges between the conscious and subconscious"
- Raegen Pietrucha
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Teri V @terivela.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social published my microchap Triforce Sonnets for their June Pride series ✨💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💕 and you can download it here for free. Any tips that I get through the website will go to The Sameer Project ❤️🇵🇸❤️ ko-fi.com/s/d7f55a0b9b
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Pride Series #14: Triforce Sonnets by Teri Vela - fifth wheel press's Ko-fi Shop
The fourteenth title in the fifth wheel press 2026 Pride Microchapbook Series. Teri Vela (she/her) is a queer Latina poet, mother, and former public ...
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Kakistocracy of TERROR! 💀 @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SUBS OPEN! Who's writing little things based in mythology? Preferably local and lesser-known mythologies, not the "western civ" stuff. Max 1,500 words.
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
our newsletter is back, and the july edition will drop in just 9 days! fifthwheelpress.substack.com
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fifth wheel press. Click to read fifth wheel press, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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alice f.z. @faith2fleurs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
ko-fi.com/s/96ba5729f2 Hi trans, poetry and medieval bsky! I got a new microchapbook out at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ’s 2026 pride series entitled “the book of dame ærney”. It’s my tribute to trans girlhood and medieval romance, as an anachronistic genre. Please download and donate tips!
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Pride Series #21: the book of dame ærney by alice f.z. - fifth wheel press's Ko-fi Shop
The twenty-first title in the fifth wheel press 2026 Pride Microchapbook Series. alice f.z. is a poetess and PhD candidate at UCSB in English, where ...
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
GARLAND o'clock over here in baltimore fifthwheelpress.com/garlandsubs
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
pantoum stress disorder by @pingotooby.bsky.social will dazzle with its musicality -sadee
PRAISE FOR.
Pantoum STRESS DISORDER
"At the end of each poem, we're left dazzled by MNJames's language and knocked-out by their relatably chaotic recollections"
—Veronica Bennett
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Sadee Bee @sadeebee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I want your “Uncommon Mythologies” I am eager—no, yearning—to hear about lesser-known, underappreciated myths. Surprise me with tales of unsung heroes, of pantheons long forgotten or erased from time. Teach me something about what your culture used to or even still believes in.
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
issue 6 of GARLAND will be guest-edited by @sadeebee.bsky.social fifthwheelpress.com/garlandsubs
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Submit to them here! www.chillsubs.com/lists/pride-... #litmags #writing
20 LGBTQ+ lit mags we love that are open now

Stone of Madness Press ✦ Lit mag & virtual home for queer, trans, & neurodiverse experiences

Bloodletter Mag ✦ Feminist horror magazine of women, trans, and non-binary writers

Spec Colorways In Verse ✦ Newsletter and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry

AC|DC Journal ✦ One-man operation based in NY featuring diverse queer voices

The Gay & Lesbian Review ✦ Magazine of history, culture, and politics for LGBT people and their allies

Plenitude ✦ Canadian magazine promoting diverse, sophisticated LGBTQ2S+ literature

Screen Door Review ✦ Online lit mag from Alabama publishing work by the southern queer community

t'ART Magazine ✦ Queer and trans-led collective making space for underrepresented voices

Coin-Operated Press Zines ✦ Queer-led social enterprise zine press from Scotland bringing people together

beestung ✦ Micro-mag for the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit community

CHILL SUBS (pg 1)20 LGBTQ+ lit mags we love that are open now

M E N A C E ✦ Lit mag publishing the dark, transgressive, gross – the “literary weird”

Lavender Review ✦ International e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians

Rough Cut Press ✦ Monthly themed issues with works from within the LGBTQIA community

Sinister Wisdom ✦ Multicultural lesbian literary & art journal founded in 1976

OTHERSIDE ✦ Queer-led literary magazine publishing speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art

Afternoon Visitor ✦ Online biannual looking for accidental visitors, harbingers, and spectres

Bi Women Quarterly ✦ Grassroots publication from the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network since 1983

SCAB Magazine ✦ A literary and art zine for outsiders – those who don’t fit in

Fruitslice ✦ Curating cultural documents in real time from across the Queer diaspora

fifth wheel press ✦ Community-focused publisher of work by queer, trans, and gender variant creators

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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today on the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog, a bite-sized review of The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, one of the best books I’ve read this year. fifthwheelpress.com/blog/staff-r...
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Staff Review: Eleanor Ball on The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi — fifth wheel press
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart , Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic , winner of the Audre Lorde Award for...
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Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹 @lyszflo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This generative workshop invites participants to world-build their own utopia while learning about the tools needed for world-building and using poetry as the engine and examples to form this world. ko-fi.com/s/220055ef8d
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2026 Summer Workshop tickets - fifth wheel press's Ko-fi Shop
More information about our workshop offerings can be found at https://fifthwheelpress.com/workshops
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
you want workshops? we got workshops! workshop your heart out. check out this thread of offerings. -sadee
2026 workshops
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dave ring @davering.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Please enjoy this one-act play written from my Desert Rat Fiction Prize-winning “Grief Like Rot Beneath the Chassis” 👁️ 💧
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"Proverbs 20:27," one of the golden shovels in my new chapbook, LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY (@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social), was first published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social in 2024.
Proverbs 20:27 I was nine, ten? when the ruinous edifices of human language molded my spirit into altared forms. It is rote entanglement, the serpent’s apple: my lamp bears its own witness. Of course, sixteen was the age I defied the Lord of red letters, searching instead for colors every me includes: the inmost hue, of which I am part.
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
step into a taste of the liminal with columns by justin a. clark & paxton grey -sadee
praise for
COLUMNS
"Clark and Grey achieve a tightrope balance of dark and light, human and nature, grounding and grasping"
-L.M. Cole
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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My new (micro)chapbook, LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY, part of the @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social inaugural pride series, is titled after the last line of Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca." These poems are instruments of self-confidence that helped me begin to publish my work. Price starts at $0
LOVE'S THE BURNING BOY
D.W. BAKER
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the 2026 pride microchapbook series starts NOW! ko-fi.com/fifthwheelpr...
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Aimee Lowenstern @aimeelowenstern.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This anthology contains two poems about the digital footprint of my dearly departed friend, Nikki
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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Metamourphosis by Alison Lubar @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social #poetry
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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Failure to Comply @featherproof.bsky.social and Differential Diagnosis @nupress.bsky.social are part of the same practice of generative refusal. Really glad I got to bring in both.
C: The distinction between liberatory and liberation is really important, and one I’ve been asked about often regarding Failure to Comply and Differential Diagnosis. With Failure, one of the most fundamental takeaways I wanted to leave the audience with is that words are a formidable weapon, but they cannot act alone. They need to be accompanied by other acts of resistance - violent, material, collective, persistent, ongoing. The axe can’t work alone, nor the knife, nor the gun. It’s frustrating and reductive when the arguments for the liberatory power of poetry always assume poetry is acting alone. It never is! Poets fight! We’re violent! We always have skin in the game. Poetry is one tool that some of us have chosen to hone. I think that it is a crucial part of a vast arsenal of practices of resistance, refusal, and liberatory pursuits.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 28/05/2026
Originally, I was going to quote tweet this and flippantly describe @cavar.bsky.social as Mad Baddie and Bad Maddie, but I was so moved by this interview that I just want to strip away defensive irony and earnestly rally to the flag of Madness held by my comrade and friend and hero.
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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
IT’S ME!!!!!!!! I loved this convo with MK, whose book, The Sexuality of Care, will be out in the summer with @feministpress.bsky.social. I urge you to read our respective books in dialogue when you can!
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
new interview!!! @cavar.bsky.social talks Differential Diagnosis with M. K. Thekkumkattil fifthwheelpress.com/blog/intervi...
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Interview: Cavar in conversation with M. K. Thekkumkattil — fifth wheel press
[sarah] Cavar is the author of Failure to Comply (featherproof books, 2024) and Differential Diagnosis (Northwestern University Press, 2026). They edit manywor(l)ds.place , and have had work f...
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Bethany Cutkomp @bdcutkomp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thank you @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social for publishing this fun mixed media piece called "CAPTCHA," which pretty much sums up what working in a public library has been like lately. (Best viewed on a widescreen device!) To read the full piece, visit fifthwheelpress.com/anth9-backen...
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Jesterbells @jesterbellart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My flash fiction story “Actual Intelligence” was reprinted in this free digital anthology! Check it out here!
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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New poem free to read at @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social! It's called "auxiliary abel" and is about...a machine lover helping me feel gender euphoria in my sleep. It's part of "MOTHERBOARD" a free anthology stuffed with mechanical trans & queer poems/stories! 🤖💅❤️ fifthwheelpress.com/anth9-backen...
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
it's alive 🖥️🩵 fifthwheelpress.com/motherboard
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
LIVE BRAVELY • LOVE LOUDLY • READ TRANS ethically made shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and stickers for those of us pushing the trans agenda™ kithbooks.com/merch
INTRODUCING KITH MERCH

LIVE BRAVELY
LOVE LOUDLY
READ TRANS

ethically made shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and stickers for those of us pushing the trans agenda™

two graphic designs are shown on a variety of shirt colours and styles. in the first, the phrase BREAD AND ROSES is styled in all caps letters with the E of bread replaced with a vial of Estrogen and a drawing of a rose in place of the O in roses. the second reads 'this body BESPOKE' with a long sewing needle piercing 'bespoke' horizontally along the midline.


kithbooks.com/merchLIVE BRAVELY
LOVE LOUDLY
READ TRANS

ethically made shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and stickers for those of us pushing the trans agenda™

a photo of a cream coloured shirt on which the phrase BREAD AND ROSES is styled in all caps letters with the E of bread replaced with a vial of Estrogen and a drawing of a rose in place of the O in roses. 


kithbooks.com/merchLIVE BRAVELY
LOVE LOUDLY
READ TRANS

ethically made shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and stickers for those of us pushing the trans agenda™

a photo of a black hoodie on which the phrase 'this body BESPOKE' is cut through laterally by a long sewing needle


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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Our 15th annual e-chapbook contest closes on May 31st, 2026. We welcome submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work, as well as visual poetry, poetry comics, and visual hybrid works. To find out more visit: www.sundresspublications.com/submit
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
mother bird by sharon zhang is an urgent, gorgeous exhalation -sadee
praise for mother bird

"each poem is as delicate as it is urgent. Each line is its own little necessary exhalation."

--jak merriman

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
reminder: we don't accept AI generated work, and if it's found out that your work has been touched by AI, we will act accordingly, as this is explicitly listed in our submission guidelines. hope this helps 👍
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
take a walk through the house of memory with heat death of the universe by leela raj-sankar -sadee
praise for
Heat Death of the Universe
"a stellar must-read for girls who never get well"
—Yasmine Bolden
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