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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sending out congrats to @zoebossiere.bsky.social on taking over from the legendary @dintywmoore.bsky.social as EIC of Brevity. Good work by both of these writers/editors, and I have full confidence in the future of the oldest still-publishing online journal: brevity.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/b...

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Dinty W. Moore Steps Down as Editor for Brevity Magazine

To our readers & contributors, After 29 years as Brevity magazine’s lead editor, I am stepping down to devote more time to painting, tai chi, and tending to my garden. Starting today, our manag…

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Alí Ortíz🌈| Salmón Editorial🐟 @aliortizediting.com · 15/07/2026

I read 𝘊𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 while recovering from surgery! Before it, I'd never seen such a relatable & detailed account of #genderfluidity that didn't pander to cisnormative ideas about bigenderism. The encounters with Southern culture & nature were fun too. If you need a new #Pride #book, here. #bookrec

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

To all of my friends far and wide, thanks for the support you have given this magazine over these past many years, and the support I hope you will continue to give Brevity as it moves forward into its 30th year. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/b...

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Dinty W. Moore Steps Down as Editor for Brevity Magazine

To our readers & contributors, After 29 years as Brevity magazine’s lead editor, I am stepping down to devote more time to painting, tai chi, and tending to my garden. Starting today, our manag…

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Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Well this is rad and sad and weird and artful and a little creepy and it’s definitely swaying my vote. The Xness cover game is really bringing it this year and I love it.

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

30 mins left in the game and "Glycerine" is trailing by only a few votes! If you haven't voted for Jason's essay yet THERE IS STILL TIME!

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Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Because craving connection with others, chasing it, is how we find communion; it’s how we survive our sadness." March Xness as a form of communion. This tournament's got me thinking a lot about belief. I'll pray (and vote) for "Glycerine" tonight, just to see how it goes.

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"Brick" surged through the night and now "Glycerine" is down bad. If you've got ANY more votes in you, please help Bush beat the beast. Here's proof of Gavin Rossdale's impact on 10-year-old Jason, drawn at school under "I want to be..." marchxness.com#/elite8-fold...

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Still 2 hours to beat back "Brick" and send "Glycerine" to the Final Four!

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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I didn't start a magazine of single-sentence prose 5 years ago to help me win @marchxness.bsky.social, but right now my essay on "Glycerine" is down against "Brick." If you're part of the Comp Sent hive, VOTE my essay and "Glycerine" SADDEST! Polls close 9am PST marchxness.com#/elite8-fold...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Jen Borkowski @jenmaicha.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm voting @thejasonthayer.bsky.social and Bush because "Glycerine" absolutely hijacks my pulse and my respiration rate.

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Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Enjoy this video and cover that will surely stand the test of time, promoting a really strong essay in this year's @marchx.bsky.social March Sadness '90s edition competition.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

this year's March Sadness competitors are doing A LOT and it's just one more reason why this community is so fun

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Last night I shot a music video on the blacked-out beach for my synth'd out "Glycerine" cover. Big thanks to Dave Rosman for the violin, big thanks to YOU for voting Bush on to the Final Four of @marchxness.bsky.social! youtu.be/E1DOPrrgCgg

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Glycerine (March Sadness)

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Will Ben Folds' brick shatter my dreams of making it to the Final Four? I've got a synth'd out "Glycerine" cover on deck that begs to differ... marchxness.com#/elite8-fold...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As a sad 90s middle schooler I'd have been so stoked to hear my essay on Bush would one day resonate with future sad middle schoolers of the PNW. Great match today against @emryal91.bsky.social's moving musing on the sadness punctuating our lives. Bush v. Blink-182! marchxness.com#/sweet16-bus...

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Okay so I loved "Adam's Song" as much as the next teenage millennial... But Adam snaps out of it at the end, and its message is more hopeful than sad. This round it's gotta be Bush.

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Got some big second-rounders today tipping off! Games are live. Will the Cinderella stories continue for Des'ree and Mazzy? Cole vs Bush is a coin flip. Will a pissed-off Morissette take down Bonnie Raitt? You decide. Games on now at marchxness.com. Vote by 9am AZ time 3/13

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Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's time for "smooth pea gravel spread across the playground" vs "seven rounds of yippee-yi yippee-ya’s" @marchxness.bsky.social

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3/12, 2nd Round: (4) Paula Cole vs (5) Bush — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

My @marchxness.bsky.social essay on how a shirtless Gavin Rossdale saved my life faces off against Paula Cole and all of her furry sons. @erindorney.bsky.social nails the sadness of heteronormativity and I'm shaking in my (decidedly not cowboy) boots. marchxness.com#/2ndround-co...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Don’t let the days go by without reading my @marchxness.bsky.social essay on life as a ‘90s sad boy, aching to be beautiful and charismatic Gavin Rossdale, crooning “Glycerine” shirtless in the rain as a sea of sweaty MTV Spring Breakers sing along to yr heartbreak. marchxness.com#/1stround-bu...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Round #1 marchxness.com#/1stround-bu...

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

3/1 games are live at marchxness.com. To be notified each day in March, join the substack! open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ARRRREEEE YOUUUUU READDDDYYYYY

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In Brevity's latest issue: stories of beginnings and endings, the sudden loss of mothers, neighbors, and comrades, the birth of new realizations. Featuring poignant artwork by Michael Todd Cohen made with foraged pigments from the artist's region. It’s all here. It’s all for you. brevitymag.com

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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen. brevitymag.com

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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 04/10/2025

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 18/09/2025

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit

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Brevity Submission Manager

Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. See our Submissions page for guidelines.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We do not and will never encourage writers to use AI in the drafting of creative literary work, and neither Brevity the literary magazine nor The Brevity Blog will consider work that is AI-generated or assisted. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...

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Does Brevity Accept AI-Generated Work?

By Dinty W. Moore To be brief, as our name promises, the answer is no. Brevity, the literary magazine, does not accept work that has been produced through use of AI or encourage the use of AI in cr…

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"The more I wrote, the more I remembered. The more I remembered, the more I returned to myself." ~ @zoebossiere.bsky.social

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"We would exchange books to save our lives, to create a conversation that helped us challenge the violence of the culture around us and imagine something else [...] In a certain sense, you hold onto books as if they’re friends. And ammunition as well." Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social

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BOMB Magazine | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by Amy Gall

Intimacy, gay bar politics, and our search for the communities we desire.

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nicole brinkley | bookseller @nebrinkley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing. if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...

Rose Hill Farm + Oblong Books! A hand holds a sticker that says CHASING THAT SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR HIGH.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!

The Way We Never Were
American Families And The Nostalgia Trap, by Stephanie Coontz, 1992

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social

Copy of the book No Offense: A Memoir in Essays in front of the 2025 AWP sign

Five memoir authors holding copies of their books

Three nonfiction authors posing in front of Skylight Books sign

Display of various books and merch from the AWP conference

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is my birthday & #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️! I would love it if you shared my genderqueer debut novel ENDPAPERS, which "Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress bookshop.org/p/books/endp...

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Endpapers

Check out Endpapers - It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't created anything of her own...

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

BOOTH 718 #AWP25 LAST CHANCE TO GET A COPY OF NO OFFENSE! I WILL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT! I WILL WRITE YOU A LOVE NOTE! PLZ DON’T MAKE ME CARRY THEM ALL HOME MY BACK HURTS 😢

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Day 2 of the AWP Conference book fair at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table! Number 550! Come say hi!

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This evening at @skylightbooks.bsky.social, join us for a special Night of Non(Binary)Fiction event! Featuring 3 recently released trans memoirs: my CACTUS COUNTRY, Neesha Powell-Ingabire's COME BY HERE, & Jackie Domenus's NO OFFENSE! Tonight at Skylight Books 7pm, 1818 North Vermont Ave 🤍

At skylight: A night of non(binary)fiction! Friday March 28th, featuring Zoë Bossiere, Neesha Powells-Ingabire, and Jackie Domenus

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...

Flyer in a 1980s/futuristic style. In the middle triangle the words "The Future is Transgender, hosted by KISO DTLA" Featuring the nonfiction stylings of Marisa "Mac" Crane, KB Brookins, Rick's Clifton, Nic Anstett, Scott Nelson, Melissa Faliveno, and Krys Malcolm Belc.

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

AWP writers! Join us for this incredible queer & trans memoir offsite event on the theme of "existence as resistance" TONIGHT at Liberation Coffee House in DTLA! Feat. Jackie Domenus, KB Brookins, Krys Malcolm Belc, and Freda Epum ☺️ Register for the event (free!) here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...

Existence as resistance: queer and trans memoir offsite AWP event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoë Bossiere, KB Brookins, Jackie Domenus, and Freda Epum. March 26th at 7pm, Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, 6725 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles CA

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For #TransRightsReadathon I'd love to highlight some titles! Today CACTUS COUNTRY by @zoebossiere.bsky.social. Their gripping debut memoir is part coming of age & part unraveling of gender—set against the Arizona desert trailer park where Bossiere grew up. Get it here: bookshop.org/p/books/cact...

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Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

A Boyhood Memoir

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