Hey pals, we’re getting closer to GRIEF EATER’s book birthday! Very excited for you all to read my bloody, vengeful, revenge book. 🖤✨

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Newsletter: Interview with Anathema + Updates! | OTHERSIDE Get more from OTHERSIDE on Patreon

Our April newsletter is out... and we are THRILLED to feature an interview with the incredible @anathemamagazine.bsky.social editorial team! We talked about their vision, their submissions wishlists, and all the best ways you can support them. Let's help them crush their Kickstarter goals! 🌈💜

A poem with the opening line, It's spring and everyone's joking about killing themselves again. Full text can be found on our website, Link in the next post

For National Poetry Month, we would like to remind you that we publish all time bangers, such as Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin, from TBQ6:

We are creating a new instagram account at sparktoflamejournal - there is one post up and it has a bio. Feel free to follow us over there!

#poetry #writingcommunity

Yesssss

How did Ariel ever learn how to walk on her new legs without crawling first? by Christina Tudor On the day of my abortion, I am thinking about my childhood neighbor and the time she dove headfirst into the chalk world we sketched out on my driveway. We were playing mermaids and pretending to swi...

My first ever fiction publication went live on the @havehashad.com site five years ago today!

The piece got a crazy amount of likes and reshares on a certain social media website that is no longer fun! One of my favorite authors shared it! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/how...

Know I told you it was okay to leave me. Why'd you believe me? You always believed me.

Good morning and happy April! 11 days left to submit something for our seventh issue!

#writingcommunity #poetry #submissionsopen

I love Diane Seuss.

What a fantastic reading tonight 🔥

So excited to share this piece 🦅🍋🐈ty @ezhang77.bsky.social and @havehashad.com!

🔥

“How you let them make you into a monster,
or a fantasy, or salvation
like you weren’t an offering.
Like you weren’t conjured from the people
in every corner of the planet.”

—Kelsey L. Smoot

beestungmag.com/issue22/glor...

holy shit this is great.

I remember this reading and loved it!

The way I ordered this so fast. Cannot wait.

A grid of nine of our titles by authors who are trans, featuring trans characters. From the top left, to right, going down: BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES, by Never Angeline North (transfemme experimental/hybrid poetry) DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr (high seas t4t dark fantasy) CORRUPTED VESSELS by Briar Ripley Page (Southern Gothic decay lit) LOVE/AGGRESSION by June Martin (transfemme absurd modern) WAKE UP! by R Merey (t4t gambling noir) MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME by Tucker Lieberman, (transmasculine autofic(ish) philosophy) SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT, by yves. (flash fic gender grab-bag) DARKNESSES by Lachelle Seville (genderfluid sapphic Dracula) H, by R Merey (fem transmasc sex work picaresque)

The Trans Rights Readathon is just around the corner, and I'm so proud of this range?! We've got:
+ transfemme hybrid poetry
+ t4t sea fantasy
+ t4t cult decay
+ transfemme absurd
+ t4t gambling noir
+ transmasc roadtrip
+ gendermix flash fic
+ genderfluid neo-Dracula
+ fem transmasc picaresque

a collage of book covers from authors that have published with kith books at least twice #TransRightsReadathon kithbooks.com

this one goes out to the repeat offenders!

#TransRightsReadthon starts tomorrow!
pick up these, and all our other eBooks, for FREE for the duration

thank an author, support a trans press, be a steward of the future of lit t4t

kithbooks.com

Flash Fiction: Ghost Baby by Katherine Schmidt Tom nestles Ghost Baby in the crook of his arm and hunches over its tiny form as if he can protect it from the flying pans, cups, and cutlery, even though Ghost Baby probably wouldn’t die, while my…

'Tom nestles Ghost Baby in the crook of his arm and hunches over its tiny form as if he can protect it from the flying pans, cups, and cutlery...'
Wonderful fractured storytelling by @ktonbsky.bsky.social @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
#fiction #flashfiction
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/f...

Thank you, Laura!

Good morning all! Our submissions are open for Issue Seven!

Less than one month to get something in. Still time, though, to call up a friend to collaborately write a poem 😎

#creativewriting #poetry #writingcommunity

Issue 1 cover on the left, with our Wanderer in pastel blue looking down at a spacescape from a crumbling coliseum seat. Text to the right says ISSUE 1: nine stories, five poems, one essay, original ary by queer creators - available now! www.othersidespec.com

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE!

Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️

othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

Loved this!!

A blue graphic with a black and white photo of Candy Darling laying in bed, looking at the camera. The text reads "Lilac Peril issue 02: IDOLS. Pre-orders open now! Coming Fall 2026."

Pre-orders for our next anthology IDOLS are open NOW!!!

Cover art and contributor list TBA

lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

also wait hi now that awp insanity is over, i want to plug again that i am open to freelance work in a variety of disciplines, including portraits, book design (cover or interior), and/or developmental editing!

“Differential Diagnosis” poetry collection by Cavar.

so excited to read this 🔥

@cavar.bsky.social

Flash Fiction: Ghost Baby by Katherine Schmidt Tom nestles Ghost Baby in the crook of his arm and hunches over its tiny form as if he can protect it from the flying pans, cups, and cutlery, even though Ghost Baby probably wouldn’t die, while my…

"Kids have an innate sense of wrongness the same way that deer sense the moment before a hunter pulls his trigger."

Read Ghost Baby by @ktonbsky.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social 🍼

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/f...

Thank you, Lisa 💕 very grateful Ghost Baby found a home in JMWW.

SUSAN L. LEARY Tulip Ceiling I am chasing an idea because I am no longer chasing anger. I am no longer chasing a comfortable bed from the feathered confines of a box. And the birds asleep inside the bedroom drawer, do they sleep on their sides or their backs? Do they sleep in silence? Where there was once a barrier, do they discern a ceiling built of tulips? Form guarantees language doesn't exhaust itself, but is a dream more image or more language? Once, I held you as I would an eyelash, a line that arrived to me in a dream. A private admission, like the muffled song of two birds caught inside the tiny night garden of a drawer, neither sad nor beautiful. As now, in death, your teeth are still rotting. Am I successful in this moment of clarity? With the birds, you'd claimed, were yellow? Unclutch your hands. Brother this time, tell me, why?

So enjoyed stopping by the Grist table at AWP to pick up my contributor copy of the most recent issue! Thanks to @grrrbinsky.bsky.social and Maggie Rue Hess for including this poem! Love sharing space with some friends here, too! 💙

Wow love this