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Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s here! It’s here! I know what I’m reading tonight! @aniking.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social

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Georgene Smith Goodin @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very excited to that @aniking.bsky.social ’s new book from @masonjarpress.bsky.social arrived today. My shelf of books from @theubergroup.bsky.social is shaping up nicely!

Photo of the cover of the book, “Family Night,” by Ani King. Red letters on a background of a person wearing striped socks resting their legs on a TV.

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@marioaliberto3.bsky.social is one of the most supportive people I know In the flash lit scene and I think we should all listen to Mario. 😌❤️ Grab a copy of Family Night from @masonjarpress.bsky.social here: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

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"FAMILY NIGHT is a lyrical gut-punch, like being kicked below the belt by a prima ballerina. Ani King invites you to have a seat at the table and engage with a cast of outcasts and upstarts, misfits and outsiders, as they share their stories of broken hearts and broken dreams. Exploring themes of identity, connection, and vulnerability with an unmatched urgency, from magic rabbit daughters to wasp mothers to coyote girls, King's collection renders the human condition bare in undeniable poetic prose." --Mario Aliberto III, author of All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@fionamckay.bsky.social said some incredibly cool things about Family Night, but I’ll be forever the most pleased with “the best werewolf sex you’ll ever read.” Family Night (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) is available for preorder here: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

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“FAMILY NIGHT is a vivid kaleidoscope of visceral detail that animates surreal stories of transformation, love, and grief. Family is slippery here, squirming from the reader’s damp, sweaty fingers: fathers are absent-present, mothers are sometimes-absent, sometimes-bloody. Grandmothers and aunts do the real work of parenting. We get lost in the intricacies of buildings that are mazes of the past, and mazes that are metaphors for love. There are awakenings. There is so much blue in sky and water. There are cars that shelter, cars that harm, and fire, fire, fire everywhere. And the best werewolf sex you’ll ever read.” — Fiona McKay, author of The Lives of the Dead

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Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This beauty by @aniking.bsky.social arrived today. I can't wait to sit down with this one again. I was fortunate enough to read an ARC, but this is the real thing right here! @masonjarpress.bsky.social

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Family Night the unboxing!!! Out with @masonjarpress.bsky.social who are so amazing. This is the queer, trans flash book of my dreams. I’m so fucking grateful to have it out in the world. youtube.com/shorts/RX4rj...

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welcome our new author, @ezewriter.bsky.social! Eze is an emcee, journalist and community organizer. His debut book, Black Boys Don't Cry in Front of Girls, will drop in 2027 by Mason Jar Press. Preorder here: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #newrelease #poetry #memoir #coverreveal #preorder

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you get an email that seems to be from Taylor (one of our lovely readers), it's not us! We would never ever ever ask you to pay us to publish your book. #scam #publishingscam #phishing

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/06/2026

"These characters are sad, and, despite getting everything they want, nobody’s happy." Who You Would Be at the End of the World: @barrettbowlin.bsky.social interviews @housleydave.bsky.social about Aliens Attack! (@masonjarpress.bsky.social). 🛸 buff.ly/z7W7ZKM

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DC Writers Room @dcwritersroom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It’s time to get those summer submissions out. ☀️ Looking for a place to send your work? Here’s 9 current and upcoming calls from local DC-area journals to consider.

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Say no to AI-generated slop. Support human work (like this collection by @aniking.bsky.social ) by sponsoring a book today! All funds directly support the work of our very real, very human authors: masonjarpress.com/book-sponsor...

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

📖👀😱💥💀❤️ masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #scifibooks #funnybooks

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Now available for #preorder 🔥Get stories filled with magical realism, queer weirdos, and werewolf sex by @aniking.bsky.social masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #flashfiction #newcollection #books #queerbooks #fiction

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

We’re BACK with a new trick… @maliaakiva joins The Workshop Prince to host an evening of performance and protest at the legendary @redemmas.org 🎉 free to attend with donations for أناس قلبي (People of My Heart) and performer tips accepted! Presented by Mason Jar Press, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hey reminder you can get all the UFO information you need in my book ALIENS ATTACK!, out now from the mighty @masonjarpress.bsky.social! masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

NBC news headline "Pentagon Begins Release of UFO Files" and cover image of Aliens Attack book by Dave Housley

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

April is almost over, which means limited time to buy poetry titles at 20% off. Skip on over to our website to claim: masonjarpress.com #poetry #poetrycollections #nationalpoetrymonth #bookdiscount #poems

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#CoverReveal 👀 Ani King's FAMILY NIGHT--a collected flash fiction collection that is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism--is out October 2026! @aniking.bsky.social #newrelease #flashfiction #fictioncollection

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Look what just landed--ALIENS ATTACK! by @housleydave.bsky.social Order at your favorite bookstore or at masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #newrelease #pubday #scifinovel #alieninvasion #fiction

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Congrats to my guy @housleydave.bsky.social on his latest novel, out now on @masonjarpress.bsky.social. It’s really good!

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’d like to introduce you all to a brilliant Iranian-American poet: Pantea Amin Tofangchi - whose first collection in 2023 (Glazed With War) chronicles her childhood amid the Iran-Iraq War: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... @masonjarpress.bsky.social @panteaamin.bsky.social

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Glazed With War — MASON JAR PRESS

2024 International Book Award Finalist Pantea Amin Tofangchi grew up in poetry, war, death, conflict, beauty, hatred, love, and censorship all at the same time. She was eight when the Iran‑Iraq War ...

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A copy of ALIENS ATTACK (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) by @housleydave.bsky.social AND a zine by @aniking.bsky.social before the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference?!?!? YES PLEASE!

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's National Poetry Month! Celebrate with us by getting 20% off our poetry titles. Use code APRILPOETRY20 at checkout. masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1?... #poetry #bookdiscount #nationalpoetrymonth #booksale #readpoetry #poems #poets

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Stop by the MJP table at CityLit April 11! Plus, a full day of conversations, workshops, and tons of amazing authors! 610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD Saturday, April 11, 2026 10am–5pm Full details: citylitproject.org #CityLitFestival #BaltimoreEvents #BaltimoreWriters #IndieAuthors #LiteraryFestival

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It can be hard to navigate this thing called writing. @stevenleyva.bsky.social brings together shining, insightful voices from every part of the publishing world in his interview series. Available now at masonjarpress.com/ebooks/tough... #writers #business #publishing #questions #answers

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Meet our new Executive Poetry Editor Tonee Mae Moll! Mae is a queer & trans writer & educator. Her debut memoir, Out of Step, won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award and the 2017 Non/Fiction Prize. Her latest collection, You Cannot Save Here, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize @wwph.bsky.social #poetry

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Pantea Amin Tofangchi grew up in poetry, war, death, conflict, beauty, hatred, love and censorship all at the same time. She was eight when the Iran‐Iraq War started. GLAZED WITH WAR is her story. masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... @panteaamin.bsky.social #poetry #iranwar #poetrycollection #poem

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Free zine that includes a smoking-hot flash story? Yes, please! Stop by the MJP table (752) at AWP Baltimore. @aniking.bsky.social #AWP #Poetry #Fiction #Writers

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The vibes are vibing for free pins at AWP. Stop by the MJP table (752) to snag one! #awp #baltimore #writers #poets #swag

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

AWP in the house! Come see us at booth 752 and score free stuff! #awp #awpbaltimore #poetry #fiction #books

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

March on over to see us at AWP Baltimore! We will be at table 752, and we can't wait to see you! #bookfair #awp #awpbaltimore #buybooks #booklovers #literaryfestival #reader #poetry #fiction #prose #literaryevents

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Kick off AWP in Baltimore with drag, burlesque, and literary performances! Hosted by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social and @jacklegpress.bsky.social Tips accepted at door for Trans Maryland. #awp #poetry #dragshow #burlesque @ezewriter.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

you didn't REALLY think we were only throwing one offsite in our HOME CITY, did you?????? #AWP26 @masonjarpress.bsky.social @jacklegpress.bsky.social

the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Delighted to see my poem 'The Blessing Hour' in Jarnal 4 from @masonjarpress.bsky.social ❤️ My thanks again to EIC Steph Sundermann-Zinger and team. The issue is a stunner with many writers I admire from the US and around the world. Available now: masonjarpress.com/jarnal #poetrycommunity #poetry

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$The Blessing Hour In this city, we stop hunting for language, instead redeem the plainest spaces. Wade in water that makes absence personal. I don’t want to write my way through a flood. Don’t want us to split over distance, or small aberrations, unnoticed at sundown. What we miss, chimes as colours on oil slick roads, and hills that steepen by us simply climbing. It hurts to labour for love. A mother lifts her child above a ruined wall — shows him the future. Morning smooths out a street of debris. The child believes it is dusty Lego, waiting. The war hasn’t happened for 300 days, meaning our beauty has been humbly salvaged, the clarity of a single moment bargaining with broken bread on a bistro table. Grace slipping a note between the hands of a man and woman drinking coffee. They never go further than talking. Or walking, where nothing falls — except fractured light on an evening like this. A girl from a dim alley adjusts her blouse, straightens her crumpled skirt. Vanishes in fog. I tell myself she must have been loved, hard. That there was no crime. Things appear as a heart is held. As a land askew, its weapons and dresses laid to rest. This translucent city — edged with fire.$

I tell myself she must have been loved, hard.
That there was no crime. Things appear as a heart is held.

As a land askew, its weapons and dresses laid to rest.
This translucent city — edged with fire.

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Beautiful poetry by Jane Lewty available now in Jarnal, Vol. 4! You can check it out here: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #litjournal #litmag #poets

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

DeMisty D. Bellinger’s PECULIAR HERITAGE (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth! This poetry collection is “a resistance narrative to the present political climate and a regime in the US that rejects culture and inclusion.” masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

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Peculiar Heritage — MASON JAR PRESS

The shock of American violence and hate shouldn’t be shocking at all. This is our peculiar heritage from an ugly institution. Still, we are not without resistance and Peculiar Heritage, a collection…

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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Out April 7th..

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Attention, Earthlings: Prepare for reduced prices when preordering ALIENS ATTACK! by Dave Housley masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #scifibooks #alieninvasion #fictionbooks #sciencefiction #readmore #readbooks #preorder #bookloversofinstagram #smallpress #bookpreorder #independentpress #novel

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Say no to AI-generated slop. Support human work by donating to Mason Jar Press today! All funds directly support the work of our very real, very human authors: masonjarpress.com/support-us #poetry #poets #writers #fiction #memoir #independentpress #smallpress #nonprofit #donate #noai #noaiart

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Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Read the heartbreakingly honest "Confessions of a Toddler" by Will Cole in the latest issue of Jarnal! Order here: masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... @yourtranscousin.bsky.social #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #poetrycommunity #fictioncommunity #creativenonfiction

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