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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Check it out - I've got a piece about land, human macrame, and warrior cats in this one!

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sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It’s out! The latest issue of Fruit Journal includes some of my Polari versions of Catullus (with audio files with me doing my best Dick Van Dyke) & so much more … #LGBTQ

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Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Also, delighted to share an issue w/a fun first-butt-stuff story by @petersontoscano.bsky.social, who I met once several genders & decades ago on a long car ride: the way he made a server's day by flirtily ordering vegan off the menu at Denny's taught me asking for things can be a gift

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Jennifer Ingleheart, Majid Parsa, Nirris Nagendrarajah, @petersontoscano.bsky.social, @rachelizasykes.bsky.social, Redd Glass, Satrio Nindyo Istiko, Joseph Devine & Sheridan Walter ...3/3

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

With BRILLIANT work from Shane Allison, Abigail Cain, @amygrandvoinet.bsky.social, @aporianautics.bsky.social, Christopher Barnes, Costantino Toth, Dom Birch, elise tyson, Gianna Starble ... 2/3

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Issue 9 is HERE! Featuring an EXCLUSIVE interview with Saleem Haddad and an extract from his new novel Floodlines. Plus all the LGBTQ+ poems, stories and non-fiction you could want. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ... 1/3 🍎Get it here: fruitjournal.co.uk 🥝

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER WRITERS! We’re open for submissions until 31st December. 🍊 We’d love to read your most boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome. Check out our guidelines at fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 🥝

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Hello Fruitees! Our submissions period for Queer Writers or Colour is coming to an END this week. Get your pieces submitted by Sunday - we're keen to hear from you!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Hi writing folks! We've just migrated to bluesky and thought we should introduce ourselves. We're an online queer literary journal, we've been going since 2019 and we love writing that is daring and innovative. We're looking to be connected to the writing community here, so please follow and RT! 🍎🍇

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Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Excellent people to connect with here at this 6-year-old queer literary journal run by my friends Tawseef and Tom ❤️

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🏳️‍🌈 QUEER WRITERS OF COLOUR! 🏳️‍🌈 We’re now open for submissions until 30th November. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎 See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/

Text on a photographed background of mixed fruit. Text reads: Fruit queer literary journal. Submissions open for Writers of Colour, now until 30th November.

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈If you like what you see, then please know that we are OPEN for SUBMISSIONS (!!), albeit to queer writers of colour ONLY for now. We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎 See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 8/ ☺️☺️

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Submissions open until 30th November 2025 Who Can Submit Any Writer of Colour who identifies as LGBTQ+ is welcome. What to Submit Creative Writing For us, ‘queer writing’ is disruptive and boundary…

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🍎🍊🍎What about a poem? @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social has a brilliant one in our second issue, full of spittle and gum and coral throats?! 😍 fruitjournal.co.uk/2020/06/21/w... 6/ 🍊🍎🍊

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🍍🍊We've also had some terrific artwork as part of our issues. Why not check out @badaude.bsky.social's watercolours from our very first issue? They're gorgeous! fruitjournal.co.uk/2019/12/30/a... 5/ 🍍🍊

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But/Also: Visuals for ‘Grow a Pair’

[Joanna Walsh] So I haven’t done any visual work for a long time, long before I made the stories for these paintings. ‘Made’, ‘visual work’, those are words I wouldn&#…

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🍉🍓 We've also been lucky to publish authors and writing that we're ridiculously proud of. Why not check out our interview with the inimitable @mbsycamore.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Terry Dactyl? fruitjournal.co.uk/2025/05/03/t... 4/ 🍉🍓

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‘the ways we come together and fail and flail’

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author, most recently, of Touching the Art, a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, The Freezer Door,…

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🍇🍎 You can read our past issues here: fruitjournal.co.uk We've published people from all over the world, from Costa Rica to Nigeria, to Australia. And we've covered topics as diverse as eggs, IUDs and Danny Dyer! 🍎🍇 2/

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