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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🙏🏼ty to JMWW and check out the other nominees’ pieces here!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

to queer or not to queer. no. the question is, how to queer further, queer the queerest

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watch out DC! Because the next On Fire is: Wednesday, October 21, at 7 PM at Sinners & Saints. Featuring an amazing lineup of Jennifer Jantzen, @shaawan.com, Jay Petrequin, Sojourner “Hughes” Davidson, and Evangeline Giaconia. See ya there.

The next On Fire is: Wednesday, October 21, at 7 PM at Sinners & Saints. Featuring an amazing lineup of Jennifer Jantzen, @shaawan.com, Jay Petrequin, Sojourner “Hughes” Davidson, and Evangeline Giaconia. See ya there.

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thrilled to have a story out in @therumpus.net today about poisoning yourself on the internet getting turned on by what you fear

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you to Gone Lawn for nominating my poem - one of my favorite poems to perform! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

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Gone Lawn 62 : Katherine Schmidt

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🗨️e(i 9: Collaboration is live!🗨️ Our #spotlight is on Katherine Schmidt @ktonbsky.bsky.social & Nisha Sethi! Check out their work at buff.ly/ryyERAn! Don't forget to vote for your favorite piece for our Readers' Choice Award! buff.ly/ahE8FZH

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

By far the poem that I send most often to writer friends and academic colleagues is Solmaz Sharif's "Patronage," whose ending is one of the few poems I can recite from memory. yalereview.org/article/patr...

I said what I meant
but I said it

in velvet. I said it in feathers.
And so one poet reminded me

Remember what you are to them.

Poodle, I said.

And remember what they are to you.

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Meat.

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Emma ✌️🦀 @crabmoney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

this is going to be my first time ever doing an irl reading! come through!

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to the first ever On Fire Reading Series event 7 pm August 26 <Wednesday> at Sinners and Saints in DC. Featuring an amazing lineup of: @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, Yasmine Bolden, @crabmoney.bsky.social, @submorstua.bsky.social, and The Workshop Prince.

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ok just go ahead and f me up why don’t you (/complementary) @yesyesbooks.bsky.social

Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregory

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Update update update: just recommended that the 14th street location of @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social (shout out to them they are awesome) stock Plastic, Prism, Void because SELF-QUOTE “it is changing my life.”

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Emma ✌️🦀 @crabmoney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Are you a queer writer in the DC area looking to be part of a new small reading series? Go to onfirereadingseries.neocities.org and let my friend @ktonbsky.bsky.social know you’re interested!!

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The web site of onfirereadingseries

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I am creating a queer reading series in DC and you are all invited: onfirereadingseries on Instagram and onfirereadingseries.neocities.org First event TBA. Please share!

onfirereadingseries.neocities.org

The web site of onfirereadingseries

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

So excited to have two collaborative poems with my friend Nisha out today!!! Check out this whole issue 🔥🔥

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How am I reacclimating after @barrelhouse.bsky.social writers camp? I’m not. Thanks for asking.

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Camp has occurred

Horrible quality photo of camp fireworks

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 22/06/2026

WE ARE STILL BASKING IN THE JOY OF SATURDAY NIGHT Thank you so much to our readers Gwen Aube @astoehr.bsky.social and @blipstress.bsky.social for LIGHTING UP the stage and thank YOU to everyone who came out to share the joy of transsexual books!

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

THE TIME HAS COME ✨ Anathema is OPEN to submissions from June 20th—July 20th! We’re looking for speculative works by queer creators of color. Send us your best, your weirdest, & your queerest work! We are proud to be paying a professional SFWA rate. 🎉 So excited to see what you have to offer! 💜

Anathema: Spec from the Margins is now OPEN for submissions from June 20th to July 20th! We’re looking for speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by queer creators of color! We pay a professional SFWA rate! Check the link in bio for submission guidelines!

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hey fellow trans friends, I can't wait to get fucked up with some weird ass trans horror ❤️give me the stories you finished and were like "nah, I love this..but it's fucking weird and unsellable." And you leave it in a doc for 3 years. Please surprise me & make me feel gross & cry. I want it bad

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Update update: the way I SEE myself in this book is scary. I am also forcing it on everyone I know. Read this book. @littlepuss.net

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“A Brother’s Gotta Tell Me Goodbye” by Ryan McCarty (Flame) and Dylan Night (Spark) made me cry when I read it. “I squeezed all my hope into a stone and prayed it / toward the lake,...” Check it out, page 5: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... #poetry #litmag #writingcommunity

Black photo with neon line drawing of a book. Art by graphic designer Renato Paucar.

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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

fifthwheelpress.com

GARLAND submissions — fifth wheel press

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 19/06/2026

The trick is you just say fuck it, whatever, in any situation

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026

danez smith SAY IT WITH YOUR WHOLE BLACK MOUTH

say it with your whole black mouth

say it with your whole black mouth: i am innocent & if you are not innocent, say this: i am worthy
of forgiveness, of breath after breath. i tell you this: i let blue eyes dress me in guilt
walked around stores convinced the very skin of my palm was stolen. what good has it brought?
days filled flinching thinking the sirens were reaching for me. & when the sirens were mine
did i not make peace with God? so many white people are alive
because we know how to control ourselves. how many times have we died on a whim
wielded like gallows in their sun-shy hands? here, standing in my own body, i say: next time
they murder us for the crime of their imaginations i don't know what i'll do.
i did not come to preach of peace for that's not the hunted's duty.

i came here to say what i can't say without my name being added to a list
what my mother fears i will say what she wishes to say herself

i came here to say
i can't bring myself to write it down
sometimes i dream of pulling an apology from a pig's collared neck & wake up crackin' up
if i dream of setting fire to cul-de-sacs i wake chained to the bed
i don't like thinking about doing to white folks what white folks done to us
when i do
can't say
i don't dance
o my people
how long will we
reach for God
instead of something
sharper?

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Oh this shit, again??? Read some autistic poems, they're really good.

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Update: this book is making me feel so much / takes my breath away, to the point where I have to start-stop-start-stop reading it. Because if I read too much at once I may combust.

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Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Issue Seven of S2F is published! www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... In this issue, we have two co-authored poems and eleven poems created through our "spark-to-flame" process. Thank you to the cover artist, Adam (see more of his work on Instagram at @digitallycomposed)

Cover image of Spark to Flame Issue Seven by Adam. Person with white pants and wings at Pride 2025, Washington, DC.

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

happy s2f publication eve to all who celebrate (me) !!!!

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m seated 🔥 Picked up “Embodied Exegesis” edited by @robotleblanc.bsky.social a while ago from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and am just now getting into it. Holy shit I love this, is my main reaction right now.

Inside of “Embodied Exegesis” edited by Ann LeBlanc showing the first page of the note from the editor. It reads:

Cis cyberpunk is dead! Long live transfem cyberpunk!

Then there’s a quote from Lillian Boyd, Twitter, June 26th, 2020: “tbh if you’re writing transhumanist cyberpunk and you’re not doing doing stuff with gender at all, you’re a cowardly little baby. You’re like a baby who’s softer and more cowardly than the other babies. The other babies fucking bully you about your soft little baby hands, which type stiff like ‘Jax Colevision’s body was like 80% can opener and he never, ever thought about having dome titties’ I know that you’re a baby who hasn’t totally grasped the concept of object permanence thing yet with your li’l chicken tender fists, but the cyberpunk metropolis still thrums with weird, scary genitals even when you’re determined to look away from it”.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 08/06/2026

🐑The Lammy's are right around the corner and GENDERTRASH FROM HELL is a finalist for the Transgender Nonfiction Award! We are so proud to have this work up for a Lammy among the other HEAVY HITTING nominees! @lambdaliterary.org #lammys2026

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Peter Hamm, tr. Helmut Bonheim

Translated
from the German
by
Helmut Bonheim

DON’T BOTHER

don’t bother about my junk about
my miscalculated screams dreams or

misbirths don’t bother about my
sentence fragments brides movies hotelbills

you agreed to that memory we
called love were agreeable

with our hurried bodies don’t
bother about my debts poems

or my friends bent on making
history don’t bother that we’re

naked to the bone and I can
forget that little pile of monstrous

that I am

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Oh hello is this now my favorite love poem 👀

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If you enjoy the excerpts I have posted, please consider buying my book, which is filled to bursting with thrilling bons mots, daring executions of the various schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric, clever glosses of ancient texts, and some stuff about love or magic powers or whatever.

bookshop.org

Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One

Part One

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The way I’m already obsessed with this two pages in my goodness 🔥 @littlepuss.net @blipstress.bsky.social

Photo of “Plastic, Prism, Void” by violet allen from Little Puss Press

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Humid nights & caring madly. Ghost tails & Zoom sex. Broskis & deleted archives. Smoking in the sun. beestung #27 is here! w/ Sora Anindya, Birch Wiley, Christian M. Ivey, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin, Lavanya Arora, KB Brookins, & Stevie Subrizi www.beestungmag.com

Floral background in purples and oranges. Text reads beestung #27. What remains but the upload? The viral response? Naked, Posthuman adjusts the lighting, assumes a provocative pose, filters personhood into pornography. A predictable shift between states. A biological response to modernity. By Esme Kaplan-Kinsey.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 19/05/2026

😱THE WAIT IS OVER😱 @blipstress.bsky.social's PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID is officially OUT NOW the genre-exploding, galaxy-spanning thrill ride of a lifetime is OUT NOW in luscious beautiful full-color It's time to breathe in all that glorious LITE PRINT: shorturl.at/wJGpF EBOOK: shorturl.at/pxZMc

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Submissions to @bafflingmag.bsky.social will open up again on June 1st. We'll be reading for unthemed stories as well as on the theme of "gossip" for the upcoming issue edited by @bendibarrett.bsky.social. 🪶 queer speculative stories 🪶 <1200 words 🪶 8¢/word

Baffling Magazine

Open to submissions June 1-15

Two categories:
Unthemed
Gossip

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"I am learning how to be weakness leaving the body. I am licking citric atlas critic acid off my fingers. Every day is keep doing my tasks keep reminding and head down. Nobody minds the back kept slant until straight again." —Cavar anmly.org/ap41/sarah-c...

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[sarah] Cavar – ANMLY

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In good news, Embodied Exegesis continues to sell well! Word of mouth has really helped this anthology of weird transfem cyberpunk reach those who need it. Thank you so much to everyone who has read it, or shared it with others!!!

the cover of Embodied Exegesis: transfeminine cyberpunk futures, an anthology of cyberpunk and weird posthuman stories by transfem authors edited by ann leblanc. The cover art was done by Lyss Menold.

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Excited to have two collaborative poems written with my friend Nisha forthcoming in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social Issue Nine!

Sign saying “find us in Issue 9 of the engine(idling coming soon!”

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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I wonder how survival happens in darkness, even as I survive.

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

So anyway Redundancies and Potentials by Dominique Dickey took me apart and then asked me who I am and then put me back together🔥 @neonhemlock.bsky.social

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hey pals, we’re getting closer to GRIEF EATER’s book birthday! Very excited for you all to read my bloody, vengeful, revenge book. 🖤✨ Boosts humbly appreciated!

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