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Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death. www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/auror…

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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/torus/oppo... License code: TPWJLPQK01YHC6JK
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🧟‍♀️Aurora Comes Online tomorrow!!🧟 Today is the last day to pre-order your copy from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social before the book enters the world. (Link in bio) Credit to @hencarnell.bsky.social for this awesome video. 📚🪐
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Happy print day to the one and only @talkinghyphae.bsky.social 🤖🍄🌿🌋🫀
A white, non-binary person with long dark-brown hair holds up a book that says "Aurora Comes Online." Their shirt says "The future is non-binary." They also hold up a mini bottle of champagne.
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I highly recommend that you pre-order this book (Out Feb 24th) by @talkinghyphae.bsky.social who is definitely *not* my partner (sarcasm). But really, I have read this book in every iteration and it is phenomenal and I am saying that as a former English major not a proud partner.
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Aurora Comes Online — Haley Bossé — Game Over Books
Aurora Comes Online is a queer self-discovery chapbook for the age of chatbot girlfriends. Haley Bossé’s poems weave together video games, early 2000’s revenge horror, coding, and sentient landscap...
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Vera Sage @liminalrj.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Queer fantasy author seeking emerging queer artist for long-term collab 🔥 Cozy fantasy series (5-12 books). Dwarven smith, found family, forge magic, stone creature companion. Think Legends & Lattes meets Hearthstone card art. #CommissionsOpen #FantasyArt #QueerArtist #BookCover #CozyFantasy 🧵
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This looks so good!! I just got my copy 🦖🦕
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Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My first full-length collection of poetry, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, came out a couple months ago. Poems on dinosaurs! Deep Time! Queer identity and embodiment! Life in the late Anthropocene! It’s pay-what-you-want for digital on Itchio, and coming soon to other sites. dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
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Time Travel Is Easy by Rick Hollon
Poems of Deep Time, queer embodiment, and life in the late Anthropocene.
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Trying something fun with my 1st AWP offsite. A reading that doubles as an irl submission window. Come to Vinyl & Pages on March 4 w/ a new piece of writing to read & hand me on paper. I want to start making Issue 23! & support an incredible Black-owned shop & community space! StanchionZine.com/awp
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This gorgeous cover was made by the talented @catherineweiss.bsky.social !!
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It’s COVER REVEAL DAY! 🧟‍♀️🖥️🐍 ‼️Aurora Comes Online on February 24th‼️ If you ❤️ revenge horror, messy queers, the downfall of AI, video games, coding, and other nerdiness pre-order now 🪐📚 www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/auro...
The cover of Aurora Comes Online: poems by Haley Bossé. The background of the cover is a green and blue digitized photo of a human torso. The letters are bubbly and translucent like hard plastic
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We’re a little less than a month out from the release of my chapbook Aurora Comes Online from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social !!! Play a gamified version of the title poem here: voidspacezine.com/aurora-comes... @voidspacezine.bsky.social
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Aurora Comes Online
“I touch myself, I dream.” – Richard Silken Haley Bossé is a non-binary poet and educator from the Pacific Northwest. Their poetry is forthcoming in the Nimrod International Journ…
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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Today is BOOK DAY! Please show some love for Childless Millennial, out NOW from Game Over Books!
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Racket @racketmn.com · 21/01/2026
People are angry, of course, about the masked bullies rampaging through our city. But people are also hungry for actions to take that are concrete, specific, and practical.
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How Can Artists Show up for Minneapolis? - Racket
I held a 500-person virtual workshop on how artists can meaningfully support the work to get ICE out of Minneapolis. Here's what I learned.
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The Massachusetts Review @themassreview.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...
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Submissions - The Massachusetts Review Submission Guidelines Submissions
The Massachusetts Review 2025 – 2026 Submissions Period is now open.  If you have submitted to us online, please check that your spam filters do not block our email. You can add massrev@external.umass...
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Willamette. I have a deeply complicated relationship with the river but it is home. If you want to read a poem about it, @petrichorlit.bsky.social published this weird one: petrichormag.com/26-haley-bos...
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#26 – Haley Bossé – petrichor
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Wowww this
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tommy wyatt blake (they/he) @tommywyattblake.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
disasterfire/disasterstar is a book i wrote in a mixed (bipolar) episode—it’s largely about plurality. one of my best friends says it’s their favorite book, so you should pick up a copy too
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Grieving. Thank you @tupelopress.bsky.social for holding this.
LEAVING URGENT CARE / HALEY
BOSSE

For Renée Nicole Good

This is for every
Fleck of glitter
Exploded from the pocket Of my hoodie,
An unexpected birth Of yesterday's excitement,
New year hatching
Six days late,
Almost enough
To keep me
At the sink for hours
Washing hope
From the planes of my palmsAnd scratching
Too rough
Under the overhang Of my pinky nail.
I could have stayed
Another minute
Or an hour with the water, I wouldn't have been ready To see her blood
Across my screen.
In poems, you almost Never see a person's Name exactly as it's called,
Across a kitchen
By an exasperated mother, Or written on their day of birth, Or written on a grave.
In so many ways,
She was livingA queer dream under tyranny,
Dropping her child
Off at daycare,
Holding her partner's hand.
Renée Nicole Good.
One more person
We shouldn't have to march
Without.
Every word she scattered
Into the air,
Let us clutter
With their closeness,
Pray we'll never 
Wash them clean.
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Thank you for reading
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I’d love it if you took a minute to read my @tupelopress.bsky.social 30/30 poem draft for today! If you’d like, you can sponsor my writing and help keep Tupelo printing for another year: tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/274...
Hopecore / Haley Bosse

When I tell the doctor I was exposed to RSV, he puts on a mask. 
How I only have to search her name to rewatch Princess Diana hugging AIDS patients. 
Knowing that if I get sick someone will hug me. 
Knowing that the first time I had Covid, my partner hugged me from behind through a plastic tarp. 
The memory of both our masked faces seeding clouds into frigid air. 
The hutch of seeds sleeping in the lobby of the public library. 
The older man googling how to support my trans daughter in the public library. 
Replying All in the Zoom chat: still here!
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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“16. After your mother stopped playing, I ended up buying a ball machine instead. It’s a lot different than hitting with someone else.” This new one in @havehashad.com by @binhdaur.bsky.social really snuck up with the gut punch. Man, I love a great list story. www.havehashad.com/hpzt7
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Things My Father Says About Tennis by Binh Do
Bounce the ball a few times on the baseline. Hold it against your racquet. Toss it high above your head. If you do everything right, you can swing your racquet up and have the ball just screaming down...
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This is lovely
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thank you! I got the idea from other writers who I had seen make something similar
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Thank you! That line is from this piece: gooseberry-pie.com/wane-and-wax/ from @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Wane And Wax - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Guzmán Barquín on Unsplash by Haley Bossé When she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles. When she was nine, she bit the moon. By ten, th...
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A line from each of my published pieces from 2025 📚🪐 Comment for links to the full versions!
A collage of lines of poetry over a photo of a nonbinary person pointing at the Grand Canyon
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Friends, we are back and officially open for submissions today! We will be reading for our Feb issue with a deadline of Jan 30th. Please take a moment to review our guidelines as we have made some changes. We very much look forward to reading your work! heroinchic.weebly.com
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Finally, a long poem eligible from 45th Parallel🍃✍️ Title: Transcrypsis If you want to nominate: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Transcrypsis


  1.  Camouflage  

In the era of rain, our only color was graphite
with pebble, fossil, lead present in the fabric.  

When I woke, I searched the piles
for the closest feel to dry and plastered it,
still heaving, to my body.  

In the rain
we learned a new degree of separation

meaning there was none, just our skin,
just the rivers of icy water flowing  
down through sticky strands of fur  
and over the chilled and porous landscape

of our organs, only breathing in the water
and out, a gill-less form of respiration.2.  Mimicry  

The pleated skirt falls  
just below the crease  
that borders your thighs  
and you spill gratitude, know God  
would forgive you for this slight  
of hand, aposematism
that tells your peers  
that you are easy  
and nothing else,  
that their lazy curiosity  
ought to land
on something softer  
and more likely to run,  
so when you turn  
your snake-like eye  
upon them they’ll think
“Ah, she’s just a caterpillar,” or
“Ah, she’s just a snake,” but always
“She.” She, she, she, rattling along the floor.  3.  Nocturnality  

When the man comes through the window you think, here he is to kill me or hold me to the night, either preferable to the blue-aired silence that fills with growing hands, the pursing of his mouth  as he slides his skin between the sheaves of fabric that pin you to this world. When he chokes you, you bleed into the room until the air comes rushing back. Next time the dark will burrow deeper and claim you as its creature.  


  4.  Subterraneous Lifestyle  

In the basement of the church, the boy tries crying as they lift their arms toward the rafters, hands open to receive something they’re told that they deserve. Later, they’ll argue with the man who pours the punch—it’s red bull spiked, don’t tell—about the security system for the kingdom of heaven, their skeleton locked essentially in place despite its growing looseness, the pockets of air expanding as layers of skin and what was once their self pull painfully apart. For now, when the man asks, “Still loving Jesus?” with a hand on their vibrating clavicle, the boy nods a yes and tugs their clothes back into place, still skirting through this kingdom of animals, dressed to the teeth and hiding their claws.
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Eligible in the Rhysling long poem category: In Which Water Becomes Audible Published in the amazing @foglifterpress.bsky.social 10.2 Buy the issue here: www.foglifterjournal.com/shop-102 Nominate: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
In Which Water Becomes Audible
       
  First,
         they asked to see my secrets, sent  
                    a survey crew of hard                
         accents, soft leather shoes  
to ask for my story in air quotes.
           Next came coffee, meal          
                    replacements, trucks,  
                          tools, pipes. They dug  
             deep lines into their hands, they asked                  
   for time off, disability wages, didn’t  
         get it, got deep enough to suck      
                        air out and left. Sometimes
     we forget a hole    
        without a tongue can sing,  
but let me ask you something: did you come        
          to stay? Rephrase: a hole is a hole  
                is a place for something new to form      
                      and you seem caterpillared in        
                 your fuzz, liquefying body parts,  
            fatigue. Come wrest with me, don’t    
                   worry, we will also be      
           something to fill a hole.        
Don’t worry, you can be      
            planted without harvest,        
                       fruitless tree or bitter root.  
           seed yourself in rot displayed,
                  rest your palm against my walls and push,
                              touch nothing here but heat.

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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Next up: witnessing // the passing // of a whale - originally published by @funfunfunicular.bsky.social ! Also available in my upcoming chapbook, Aurora Comes Online👾 Read here: www.funicularmagazine.com/read/whalel-... Nominate: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Funicular Magazine | witnessing // the passing // of a whale
Haley Bossé We watched it as it dripped away: the whale. We watched from the lip of the precipice as it flowed
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
to everyone we published in 2025 and beyond, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
the covers of fifth wheel press' 2025 publications are arranged on a graphic that reads "thanks for a great year!"
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I have four eligible poems! First is Aurora Autofills, originally published by Spellbinder! It’s eligible in the standard category and will be in my upcoming chapbook, Aurora Comes Online (out in February from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social ) Nominate here: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Aurora Autofills  

Imagine me   Plumish
Practiced  
Pixie Cut  Pompadour  
Imagine me  Buzz Cut
Buzz Kill
Blunt Hand  
Deep Pour
Imagine me   How I Alwaysneverwas— Pink, imagining
Playdoh  Catdog Crossword  
Imagine   Crossdressed
Primprancing   Catwalk
Imagine me  Beaming
Imagine   Beamed Up Spacewagon  
No-man  Solo
Imagine me    Extraterrestrial Terrastructure
Imagine me  Terrible
Imagine   Waving  and   Window, imagining  
  Everywhere
and Imagine   Me There.  

Don’t Imagine  Forget.
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap41
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ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Strange Horizons is still open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors! More info about this submission window: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Submission guidelines: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... We look forward to reading your stories!
Fiction Submissions 
OPEN
Indigenous Authors
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
✂️ CALL FOR SUBS & THEME REVEAL!✂️ Issue 8: Collage is OPEN Dec 1-Jan 31 Submitters have permission to REMIX a large selection of our Archive! buff.ly/dWZdncU See our OFF LIMITS LIST for limitations: buff.ly/CDwSomV. See Guidelines for RULES: buff.ly/9iwzYqR Get inspired with de / composition!
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k! Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects. This #Spotlight is on Haley Bosse @talkinghyphae.bsky.social!
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
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Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
SUBMISSIONS Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
www.pcgamer.com/the-creators...
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The creators of Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon talk to us about farm games
We sat down with Eric Barone and Yasuhiro Wada to talk farming, Japanese ports, and making games.
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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
A tan image includes the black Nerve to Write logo featuring a raspberry-colored neuron in the top left corner and the dark purple words “A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers” along with the raspberry words “Now open for submissions” and the purple text “nervetowrite.com.” In the top right and bottom left corner of the black neurons stretch off the image.
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE -
After Kim Addonizio
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Game Over Books @gameoverbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A massive thank you to everyone that submitted to the last reading period! Our next reading period will be in May '26. In the meantime, get ready for some new books!
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Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We're excited to announce a generous challenge grant from the Poetry Foundation! Gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for their support. Gifts we receive in the coming weeks will be DOUBLED, up to $25,000. Double your impact & donate today! DONATE ONLINE: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock #Poetry
At the top, Split This Rock’s red logo. Below, bold heading text reads “Double Your Donation” with a circle that says “x2” to the right. Body text reads “The Poetry Foundation will now match donations up to $25,000. This is your chance to make your gift to Split This Rock go twice as far. If we unlock this challenge grant, we will have raised over 80% of our $68,750 goal. DONATE TODAY” The Poetry Foundation logo is to the right. There is a URL for Split This Rock’s online giving portal at the bottom: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock.
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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
@splitthisrock.bsky.social needs our support! #SplitThisRock is a great source of inspiration, potential, and opportunity for the DC Area community, lit. & otherwise. Let's help keep its lights on. Spread the word, donate time or $$. Read on. 🙏💙
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Julian Plum @julianplum.com · 21/08/2025
feeling particularly excited & grateful today to be a trans person!! it is an existence that others are trying to make difficult and that does definitely get to me but like... I really like who I am now, and I like the unique perspectives that transness gives me.
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I can’t go this time around but I think it’s going to be great
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is so fair! If you want encouragement to finish, I’d recommend @ghostcitypress.bsky.social’s Summer Series. They’re microchapbooks, all available online for free (or you can donate to the authors if you want). They’re short enough you might be able to read one/day for a few days.
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Generous and warm online workshop coming up from the wonderful Meg Hayertz: creativemomentum.art/workshops/ho...
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Words Glowing like Honey: From Self-Doubt to Self-Compassion and Creative Flow — Creative Momentum
When we’re writing regularly, we show up to our life as our full self. Engaged. Curious. Open. But when we’re stuck, we can start doubting our skills or even whether we’re meant to be writing. We...
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Thanks for reading!
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