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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Elegy & Exorcism by Anthony Thomas Lombardi will arrive this December! Cover reveal and preorder coming soon. Get ready!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Over the moon to share the cover of ALYDAR by Jill Mceldowney. WOOT!!! Cover art by 18th century painter George Stubbs. Cover & Interior design by the magnificent Katie Prince and all the brilliance from Jill Mceldowney. YEEESSSSS!!! Releasing in December. Go to YesYesBooks.com for 20% off preorder!

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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

new beginner's mind interview today with Lauren Davis, who tells the story of how her book THE NOTHING (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) came out of letting herself just “play” with this form in the wake of the rejection of her first poetry collection. So much wisdom here for writers! 💥

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“Being uncomfortable is temporary...on the other side is beauty”

poet, writer, and creative writing instructor Lauren Davis on acceptance, play, and doing the work even when there seem to be no results ✧

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preposition @preposition.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

PREPOSITION reviews DEAD BOYS IN SPACE (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social, 2026) by @sygwriter.bsky.social. "In a book about a dead brother, she is never maudlin. The diction is feral, the pacing exuberant, but Gregory sacrifices neither sense nor sequence." www.prepositionmag.com/gregory-dead...

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And please welcome our new Assistant Editors in Communications: Darshita Jain, Torie Michelle Anderson, Ebenezer Mowete, and Max Seng! Woot!!!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Please welcome our new Assistant Editors in Fiction: Amanda Ellard, Lucia Rudi Kent, Amulya Tadimety, Andrew Fieler, and Jess Lauffer. Yay!!!!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The final results of the YYB Pamet River Prize are here! Please congratulate Lindsay Tigue and Anxious Creatures for winning the Pamet River Prize!!! Additional congratulations to the finalists and semifinalists as well as deep thanks for all work that was nominated. So grateful for it all. -KMA

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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com · 02/08/2026

Day 1 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social - I finished sipèstisyon by @mrmack88.bsky.social last night. I've been a huge fan of Mckendy since I first saw him perform a couple years ago. This debut collection from @yesyesbooks.bsky.social is a deeply affecting exploration of his poetry/life. Marvelous ✨

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

📣August’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, upcoming events and July’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2026 @mrmack88.bsky.social @yesyesbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It’s time for the YYB Editorial Crew to expand. The response to our recent call was incredible and immediate. Please welcome our new Assistant Editors in Poetry: Ashleigh Kennedy, Connor Beeman, Rahma O. Jimoh, Annie Przypyszny, and Katie Garcia!!! Woot!!! We will announce our additional crew soon!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Two of our submission categories (Pamet River Prize and Open Reading Period in Fiction) close tomorrow at midnight EST. We’d love to read your work! yesyesbooks.submittable.com/submit

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Poetry Longlist is here and filled with magnificent manuscripts! Congratulations to all and deep thanks to all of our submitters. It is a privilege to spend time with your words. —KMA

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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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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 23/07/2026

"When the words themselves are lost, so much can be lost with it: oral histories, traditions, and unique perspectives," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1565. Read “bilingual” by @mrmack88.bsky.social from SIPÈSTISYON: bit.ly/44Om9Z1 📖: @@yesyesbooks.bsky.social

graphic featuring a portion of Mckendy Fils-Aime's poem

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So happy to see Brine Orchid by @arahko.bsky.social on the finalist list for the Ohio Book Award!!! Please go here to vote for Brine Orchid! www.ohioana.org/programs/ohio-book-awards/

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We are looking for 3 Assistant Editors. These are substantially volunteer positions. Head over to our Submittable page linked below for details!

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: loudest when startled by @lunareyhall.com & Three Queerdos and a Baby by Nina Packebush @sunnypaws.bsky.social, both @yesyesbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

Book cover for Three Queerdos and a Baby by Nina Packebush, Yes Yes Books: Three Queerdos and a Baby, the second volume in Nina Packebush's groundbreaking YA series as it is also a stand alone novel, follows Banjo, a queer teen mom (the first ever queer teen mom to be represented in YA fiction!), as she navigates grief, motherhood, her developing self with support from her family, friends, and partner while surviving a world that is hostile to who she is. https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/three-queerdos-and-a-baby-1

Book cover for loudest when startled by luna rey hall, Yes Yes Books: The poems in loudest when startled, luna rey hall’s debut collection, explore the ways in which gun violence has become part of the fundamental nature of relationships, family, and American masculinity—so much so that the bullet has been rendered benign, just another news story, just another obituary, just another walk down the street. The poetry in loudest when startled follows two brothers born into gun culture as they navigate their relationship to anger, loss, and guns in entirely different ways with different outcomes yet leaving us with a sense that we are all both predator and prey. https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/loudest-when-startled-by-lukas-ray-hall

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Sunday!!! Come celebrate with us!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Congratulations to the folks whose manuscripts are on the Shortlist and Longlist of the 2025 YYB Open Readjng Period and particular Congratulations to Amber Wheeler Bacon whose manuscript We Were Vessels is being offered publication with YesYes Books! And huge thanks to all who submitted!!!

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Wherein Arah Ko reads from BRINE ORCHID (YesYes Books), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1VbJCIvPxU Cc: @yesyesbooks.bsky.social

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Arah Ko Reads from BRINE ORCHID, a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry

YouTube video by Big Other

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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 04/06/2026

For two weeks beginning next Monday, 6/8, we'll be joined by guest host Diannely Antigua! She's the author of UGLY MUSIC (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) and GOOD MONSTER (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) and hosts "Bread & Poetry Podcast." Maggie will be back in your feeds Monday, 6/22. 📸: Tony Ochoa

Photograph of Dominican American poet Diannely Antigua.

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Wild Rose Poetry & Story: Mon June 22 6pm at the Truro Meeting House. A slamming set of readers including Elizabeth Bradfield, Andrea Cohen, Tanya Olson, and Kate Rogers Wallace! YESSSS! The event and reception are free, sponsored by YYB and hosted by Lili Flanders and KMA Sullivan. See you there!

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wherein Lauren Davis reads from THE NOTHING (YesYes Books), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Fiction! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vq... Cc: @yesyesbooks.bsky.social

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Lauren Davis Reads from THE NOTHING, a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Fiction

YouTube video by Big Other

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Super excited about the release party for sipestisyon by McKendy Fils-Aime!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Our 2025 Vinyl 45 Prize Results are in! Thank you to all who submitted. We truly appreciated time with your work! And thank you to @thegalester.bsky.social and Karah Kemmerly for the care in reading submissions. It is always such a pleasure to work with them! -KMA

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Today's Feature: "Panhellenic Building Blueprint" by @veryverynoisy.bsky.social from Phantasmagossip published by @yesyesbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/panhell...

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Panhellenic Building Blueprint

I steal furniture from / rooms rumored to have asbestos: cherry desks, leather chairs.

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We will and must continue to share art together. We would love to see you in Baltimore this week. Here are our offsite readings on Thursday and Friday. Both are free, 5:30-7:30 pm at Lazarus Auditorium (a quick rail or bus ride from the convention center). With so many spectacular writers!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

There is no one right way to act against hatred, the hunger for power and control, the desire to destroy, satisfaction in ignorance, fascism. You have a way. Be confident. Act despite fear. Don’t worry about being right or even understood. You are important in this fight. You are loved. -KMA

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Here is your first look at Dead Boys in Space, the spectacular debut from Sara Youngblood Gregory! Cover art by Salome Grasland. Design by Karen Sofia Colen & Hobbes Ginsberg. Out this May. Preorder now at yesyesbooks.com!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Our final release of the year: Brine Orchid, the stunning debut by @arahko.bsky.social YEEESSSSS! Thank you to Arah for her brilliant heart and language, to Olivia Hammerman for her gorgeous design, and to lead project editor, Gale Marie Thompson, for her skill and dedication. Wonderful!!!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Another December release and we are chuffed about it! Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World, a debut prose poetry collection by Patrick Swaney. Design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social YEEEESSSSS! Order at yesyesbooks.com

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Book of Exemplary Women by Diana Xin releases today and we are psyched about it!!! Go to www.yesyesbooks.com to order. Design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Cover reveal and Preorder announcement for Year of the Sheep by Stacey Park!!! Part of the Vinyl 45 limited print chapbook series so get one while you can! Cover Art by Rochelle Youk. Cover and Interior Design by Olivia Hammerman. Preorder for a 20% discount at www.yesyesbooks.com

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

murmurations by Anthony Thomas Lombardi cover reveal and preorder announcement! Cover photography by Savannah Lauren. Cover design by Alex Bruce. Yeeesssss!!!!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Phantasmagossip by @veryverynoisy.bsky.social releases TODAY!!! Yeeeessssss!!!! Cover Art by Sophy Hollington Cover & Interior Design by Alex Bruce. Last day to order at preorder discount. Go to www.yesyesbooks.com for details.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

From @nancyland.bsky.social's book, Inconsolable Objects. #poem #poetry #books #writing

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I see this floating around. Can we remember that individuals are NOT an entire culture? He’s just one man. Also, Musk is acting the buffoon for attention. Can we stop giving him energy and assigning such great importance to every word he utters??? Great. Onward.

“The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy. “ -Elon Musk

“ The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Born Backwards by @tanyaolson.bsky.social is a finalist in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction. YEEEESSSSS!

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Coming soon! March 6 at 5:00 CST! eiu.zoom.us/j/86504931543

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Build Your Poetry Manuscript with KMA, Episode 11: Revising Across Your Manuscript is up!!! youtu.be/1NNDkTQdZLQ?...

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Build Your Poetry Manuscript with KMA, Episode 11: Revising Across Your Manuscript

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We are reading! Go here for guidelines: yesyesbooks.submittable.com/submit

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YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here are the results of our 2024 Pamet River Prize! Huge congratulations to Caitlin Cowen for submitting the prize winning manuscript & to all finalists & semifinalists! Endless thanks to all who submitted their own work or that of early career Women, Gender Queer, or Native writers they believe in!

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