I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
anyway new paper just dropped. do YOU think about how white class mobility is enabled by racism? and has been as far back as middle english romances and shakespeare plays? stream "journeying mercantile and romantic worlds in the merchant of venice" in LURe journal vol. 14 (lurejournal.com/issues/)
A five panel comic strip. In the first, there’s a photograph of the artist as a baby in a pink mesh bag. In the second is a slow drip in brown, rust, and red. Next to that are rows of dots mimicking Estrogen. In the third is a photograph of the artist crying. In the fourth is a photo of the artist’s chest after top surgery and the prescription for Testosterone. In the fifth is the artist, masculinized. Overlaid is an excerpt from Ayin's piece.
Please note CWs
The ghosts are quiet—most people ignore them—but numerous.
Every minyan has a dedicated Mourner for the Kaddish.
Read more of "Dead Names" by @ayinships.bsky.social in The B'K Volume 16, Issue 1: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
super pleased: just got my physical copy of the B"K (@thebkmagazine.bsky.social) issue with my story "Dead Names" in it! have you read it yet 👀
A work of fiction for your Tuesday! "Smother (v.): stifle, suppress, suffocate" by Ayin Ships asks what happens when your identity issues take on a life of their own? Could that life be yours? Would you want it to be? Nice 69!
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/smother...
Maybe eventually I'll make real promo posts for my pre-Bsky-account publications as well but for now I'll just say my work can be found in Roi Faineant, Active Muse, and The B'K! Check them out, they have good stuff.
Promo image from the b'k (bitchin' kitsch) for Dead Names by Ayin Ships. Text reads: CW: References to the Holocaust, death of a family member, assimilation, implied transphobia/unintentional misgendering. The ghosts are quiet—most people ignore them—but numerous. Every minyan has a dedicated Mourner for the Kaddish. It takes time, going through Ploni ben Ploni and Plonit bat Ploni each time, but no one complains. Well, everyone kvetches, no one means it. Read the full piece in The B'K Vol 16, Issue 1.
New short story just dropped! Find my writing in the latest issue of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social <3
A five panel comic strip. In the first, there’s a photograph of the artist as a baby in a pink mesh bag. In the second is a slow drip in brown, rust, and red. Next to that are rows of dots mimicking Estrogen. In the third is a photograph of the artist crying. In the fourth is a photo of the artist’s chest after top surgery and the prescription for Testosterone. In the fifth is the artist, masculinized.
The B'K Volume 16, Issue 1 is here! Check out the full cover art by @mxchristalbot.bsky.social, a mixed media piece titled "Slow Stitch Self Portrait Told in Five Hormonal Parts" here: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch