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blue đào nguyễn @bluenguyen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

v thankful to have a poem out in manywor(l)ds' 3rd anniversary issue among other rly cool pieces :')!!!!

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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 17/08/2026

For the those in the Sunday evening crowd looking for a nice, creepy read 👻👧🏻🗣️🖤💀

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Jamie Hawley @onlynarrative.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Extremely excited to have a flash piece in the third anniversary issue of manywor(l)ds. It’s about Mothman which by definition means it’s also about grief. Long live the Almost-Bug. manyworlds.place/issue-13/

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I had another erasure published! #amreading

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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 15/08/2026

Very thrilled and honoured to be included in this marvellous @manyworlds.place TOC, and for the third anniversary issue no less!! My contribution is a new flash, "The Ghost Girl Never Waves Back." Immersive, terrifying release in just 500 creep-creeping words 👻

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · 15/08/2026

Nameless Cartographer is in the new issue of manywor(l)ds. is this the first literary publication of a dungeon synth track? manyworlds.place/issue-13/

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Issue 13 - manywor(l)ds :: place

a creative place for the space (in) between.

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/08/2026

and more! We can't thank you enough for three wonderful years. And if you're inspired by what you read, we reopen for submissions September 1 and would love to see you in our inbox.

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/08/2026

this is a really special day for manywor(l)ds - our third anniversary, and the release of our thirteenth issue! we built this issue with special care and intention to reflect our mission, aesthetic, and desires as a magazine, and are proud of how it turned out.

Issue 13

Abigail Cain
Plague of the Soil

Anna Nygren
Grl/s in Hospital

Cindy Phan
The Ghost Girl Never Waves Back

Joanne Merriam
put Canada in parentheses

Jamie Hawley
Lepidoptera

Greer
“In the Event of my Death,” or “Monday, January 1992.”

KB Brookins
Interview with Sara Youngblood Gregory

Blue Đào Nguyễn
marsroverlovesong.mp3

L. Acadia
through Narrow Gate with you

Jacob Nye
Commitment Survey 1

Nameless Cartographer
Moss-cloaked Effigies

Mileva Anastasiadou
The Wolf Who Wore a Cat’s Face

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

this morning my coffee is bitter manywor(l)ds @manyworlds.place Issue 11 manyworlds.place/issue-11/km-...

excerpt: "where the first late snow drowns / the black twisted stalks of / peas, strawberries, tomatoes"

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Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 @happilander.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is a tale about a cat who was a wolf in a cat world, and also about the moon, and it's published today on the anniversary issue of the wonderful @manyworlds.place 🐈 Many, many thanks to the editors! 🐺🌟🐺 manyworlds.place/issue-13/mil...

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RJ Aurand @rjaurand.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Mind Palace v1.2.1" is nominated for Best of the Net! Many thanks to Cavar and Joyce for giving this weird little piece a home. You can read it here: manyworlds.place/issue-10/rj-...

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EK Krone 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A true honor, what a birthday present! <3

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endwell @endwellian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

what an honor to have my art included in these nominations!

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

About a week left to send in your work!

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 08/08/2026

On the eve of our third anniversary issue (out in a week!) We're delighted & honored to announce our Best of the Net @bestofthenet.bsky.social nominations for 2027.

Poetry
Emma Johnson-Rivard, There’s a Dinosaur in the Library
EK Krone, Views of Diana
Amelia Chang, THE CHRONICLES OF A SINNER
Jade Kleiner, Sixty One Weeks, Three Days After The Concussion
Gaby V Everett, Lesson 3.14
Valerie Babenkova, Comfort in the Endless Forever of Underneath and Not

Fiction
RJ Aurand, Mind Palace V. 1.2.1

Claudia Leffie, Forwarded Many Times

Nonfiction
Ashton Freeman, Neither, Both

Odin Meadows, Elbow

Art
endwell, neuroscience must reckon with the antipsychiatry movement

Joshua Kayo, Drips for Eyes, My Canvas; I see in Jackson Pollock

Troy Droussiotis, Glamour Girl Magenta

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 16/05/2026

ISSUE 12 IS HERE!!!! Featuring writing, art, and audio/visual media by @carterhaugh.bsky.social, @jaespersmyth.bsky.social, and more! manyworlds.place/issue-12/

Issue 12

EK Krone
Views of Diana

Wenyi
Closing Time

Tamar Ashdot
cataloguing care

J.A. Espersmyth
How to Sate the Writhing Eldritch Mass Inside You

U.M. Agoawike
Meat Gods & Metal Supplicants

Amelia Chang
THE CHRONICLES OF A SINNER

Maze Raghavan Cohen
My Liberation Work has been Damn Ableist
Introduction
Future
Fish Guts
Farmer yells at me for eating processed tortillas.

Katy Bond
Last Night in this Sweet and Lonely World

Marina Crustacean
Two Pieces
Untitled
When I First Came Out

Claudia Leffie
Forwarded Many Times

River Vetter
featherbound

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 15/05/2026

manywor(l)ds is open through July 31, 2026. 🌿 Seeking literary, speculative, experimental, poetry, and hybrid work from queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, intersex, and gender-expansive creators. 💰 $10 for unpublished work horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @manyworlds.place

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 11/05/2026

"manywor(l)ds is an anti-binary and trans-boundary rebel child." A huge huge huge thanks to past contributor Mei Beckof, who gave us a generous review over at MagBlog. We feel so incredibly seen and honored 🥰💙👽

meibackof.substack.com

MagBog #5: manywor(l)ds :: place

Chaos at its most elegant, rules at their most destroyed, manywor(l)ds is knife-edge. It doesn't need to prove anything; it thinks, therefore it is.

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

kickstarter.com

Anathema: Spec from the Margins

Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 11/05/2026

manywor(l)ds is my dream mag to run & my beloved queercrip&transMad baby. I appreciate the ways that our contributors see & interrogate & reflect back our mission toward monstrosity/transformation/crossing/opacity, especially when they do so in ways I couldn't dream of imagining alone. 💙 Thank you!

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy International Workers' Day to all comrades! To celebrate, we're offering 50% off ALL BOOKS until the 14th. We publish books that defy capitalism and all the exploitation it brings. One day, we will be free. Until then, keep reading! www.plutobooks.com

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is a novella or short novel that is especially hard to "pitch" to people. I think if you enjoy surrealism/absurdism, post-apocalyptic stories, picaresque "well, that was just a bunch of stuff that happened!" plots, ambiguity, open endings, & introspection, you'll likely get something out of it.

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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

catch me in these places reading + talking DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS @nupress.bsky.social !!! plain text in alt ofc. can't wait to see you all in Toronto, Columbia SC, Amherst MA, and Minneapolis!!! if you're not going to be there and want a signed bookplate, dm me your address and i'll send you one!

3/24, 7pm - Toronto, CAN

Another Story Bookshop w/ Twoey Gray

4/10, 6pm - Columbia, SC

Queer Haven Books w/ Evelyn Berry

4/21, 6:30pm - Amherst, MA

Amherst Books w/ Niamh Timmons

5/23, 6pm - Minneapolis, MN

Boneshaker Books w/ Danez Smith

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

ICYMI! :D I am in this: #BookSky #poetry #erasures

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

“The skinny old punk was up to something. She blended in with the usual crowd at Wart’s: saggy gauged earlobes, sunbleached neck tattoos, ratty Bundeswehr jacket…” Read Sylvie Althoff’s “Last of the Cigarette Gremlins” in @manyworlds.place this #WomensHistoryMonth: manyworlds.place/issue-9/sylv...

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Last of the Cigarette Gremlins by Sylvie Althoff - manywor(l)ds :: place

The skinny old punk was up to something. She blended in with the usual crowd at Wart’s: saggy gauged earlobes, sunbleached neck tattoos, ratty Bundeswehr jacket, the PBR can that looked like she’d…

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

new zine in the shop!! $2 each + ships globally 🩷

three zines printed on white, green, and pink paper. the zine is titled "poetry books you should read." beneath the title are Gromit and Fluffles from Wallace and Gromit sitting on a couch reading a book. below the image it reads "with one line from each book to convince you."

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Jacob @rabbitpen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

My piece, Hole in the Ground, is featured in this issue! So happy to be a part of this wonderful project

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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Excited to be featured again in @manyworlds.place 🪟

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

These pieces and so many more dot our wonderful February issue –– check it out, share with friends, and mark your calendars...we open again March 1!

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

@acd.works's "CELEBRATING OBESITY" was our first acceptance for this issue, and an enthusiastic one –– a satirical + deeply serious piece on self-love and a refusal of anti-fatness. manyworlds.place/issue-11/a-c...

A tan, paper-textured image with brown accents. The words “CELEBRATING OBESITY!” sit at the top in a large bubble font. A round botanical drawing is faded into the background of the image. Two round abstract shapes almost like a person kneeling frame the top paragraph. The text reads, in alternating cursive and bubble fonts: “You are invited—cordially of course—to the wedding of A.C.D & THE FAT THAT HANGS OFF HER BULGING STOMACH. On the EVERY DAY of the EVERY MONTH of the EVERY YEAR. At THE SOFT FEELING OF SUNLIGHT DANCING ACROSS HER EXPOSED THIGHS. Join the 300 POUNDS OF WONDERFUL, UNDULATING FLESH for a night to remember and a large, full life to treasure. The DENSITY OF LOVE, the WEIGHT OF HUMOR, and the HEAVINESS OF SPIRIT to follow. P.S. All gifts in the form of advice, diet pills, or similar smelling bullshit will be torn open and stabbed with a thin person’s fragile rib. P.P.S. The happy couple is only accepting well wishes, poor wishes or any wishes in between in the form of COLD HARD CASH. P.P.P.S. Pay up, shut up, crack like the twig you are.”

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

@odinmeadows.bsky.social, a returning contributor, brings us two short pieces, written with his trademark strangeness. manyworlds.place/entries/issu...

Elbow
I’m no good at licking my elbows, have less luck connecting with strangers. Outside,

across the street there are two stick-like poshes with their elbows stuffed in each other’s mouths, licking with tongue and even a light nibble

of teeth. I’m sick with jealousy but also affronted by such public displays of distasteful interaction. So I go out, in my waiter garb,

and I stipple my feet up to their table, demand them to disconnect. They do but they look at me

with the coldest expression. I instantly regret my existence, start backing into the street like a drunk pigeon. Everybody has

the coldest of faces. My boss is shaking his head, not in anger, but in an inconvenient grief like at a funeral for a relative you didn’t

know well. I’m fired.

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

@ashtonistyping.bsky.social demonstrates their brilliant flash skills with Neither, Both, a critique of social commonsense and gesture of hope toward something better. manyworlds.place/issue-11/ash...

Tell me that the kids don’t know where potatoes come from. Tell them it’s from the earth and they might not eat anymore. Kids don’t eat enough dirt anymore. Me? I’m about as butch as a girl-child making a mudcake. This is how to play house. We’re all the mom but you can be the dad. There’s a dog that’s also a cat. The children are all well fed. There is a rosebush and also a clover garden. One bedroom. This is where you can keep your things in my life. (In the bottom left drawer.) Fold it next to my boyhood and I will hold it against my chest when you leave. This is where I keep my toothbrush and you can keep yours next to mine. This is how you time travel. This is how you look back with feeling. This is how to open the garage door from the inside. Teach me how to drive and I’ll teach you something about poetry. This is how to find the center of gravity. It’s between your ear and your chin. It’s the distance between us October-June. This is how to do laundry together and yes, I will remember the dryer sheets. I know about the oat milk in the morning, the reality tv before bed. This is how to be a boy. It requires a lot of blush. Add mascara to your mustache. This is how to be a girl. I know a thing or two about it. Tell me about the girl from high school. Tell me about your name and I’ll tell you about my mother. This is how to lick the floorboards, Andrea Gibson. I’m on WikiHow every night figuring out how to tell you. This is How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, Kate Hudson. This is how to. This is something I can’t explain in words so let’s transcend language, let’s press our foreheads together, let’s call it even.

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

@joannemerriam.bsky.social's erasures reflect the "inadequacy of language" as well as the possibilities located within the creative imagination. manyworlds.place/entries/issu...

on a whited-out background reading:

alienation echo

The
inadequacy of language
is extended
where words are a refuge

retreat to the wilderness

fairy tales and
history
the duplicity of language
fiction, developing a series
of love triangles.

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

@kmbezner.bsky.social's "This Morning My Coffee Is Bitter" is evocative and claustrophobic, rich with color and imagery. manyworlds.place/issue-11/km-...

two locks latched means
everyone’s still tucked inside
buried deep, closed up,

except a crack in my upstairs window
balancing the dusty heat with outside air

where the first late snow drowns
the black twisted stalks of
peas, strawberries, tomatoes

strangled fruits clawing up from a pale grave
stewing in their dark plastic pots since June.

even once softly tended peppers
dangle rotting from their vine.

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · 15/02/2026

Welcome to issue 11! It shaped up to be thick with liberatory gestures – on disability, fatness, Blackness, youth, and more. Creatives across/against genre and medium tackle pressing issues of disposibility and resistance. manyworlds.place/issue-11/ Some highlights:

issue 11

Dandelion Jester
The Monster Was Only A Child

Robin Kapon
bb my step is a terrifyd sprint

Obstreperous Allotrope
a word for my caregiver

KM Bezner
this morning my coffee is bitter

Mei Backof
Do Stop Asking, Please

Joanne Merriam
Three Erasure Pieces
alienation echo
Competing with churches for the imagination of present-day
metamorphosis (chrysalis)

ju(mia)
for Brother Marcellus Williams – may he know life in death

Ashton Freeman
Neither, Both

Odin Meadows
Two Pieces
Elbow
gor(g)e(ore)

a.c.d
CELEBRATING OBESITY

Jacob Nye
Hole in the Ground

Nonbeaunary
You Are Not My Mother (for Alison Bechdel)

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