This is just a bit of self accountability because I’ve been away from the community so long - going to show up more and read more and hype more ❤️💜💙

Congrats to the JAKE BOTN noms, esp @gavinopoet.bsky.social who submitted to DONT TXT UR EX last year xxx it’s a big hitter

We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.

Btw everyone is gorgeous and talented and you should go download all their books.

Comin over here to to say if you have been wondering whether the birds in your backyard might be a little fruity, I have the answer for you:

All the Birds are Gay!!

🐦🌈🪶

🥹💜

whew all the gay mags sending their rejections on the same day after lgbtq+ history month 😭😂

A little over a week ago we got together to celebrate the launch of my debut poetry collection, Another Life!

If you missed the reading, you can catch it here on my website: www.frances-klein.com

You'll see readings by @toddedillard.bsky.social , @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and myself

Queer community is regularly trading with another woman on Vinted.

i’m going to live freely and feel deeply and flood my community with kindness and connection. we must fight in many ways, but
we cannot forget the soft ones.

Guidelines Please go to our Submittable site for specific category guidelines and to submit work. jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.…

Did u know that @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is open for flash fiction submissions until Saturday, February 15 at 11pm? And that if you send in a story under 1500 words, I will read it?

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

I mean I’m also in the market for a wife? 😂

As we continue receiving subs for our REPRINTS issue, a reminder of what's coming next.

We open our charity print anthology submissions on 1st March and keep the lid up until 30th June 🦝
Stories 300 - 2500 words to the theme. Any genre.
More here: trashcatlit.com/the-bin-coll...

Omg my favourite genre - GAY LETTERS!!

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries For six years and counting, we — Jody and Zoë — have been sending each other love notes: epistolary poems, long form emails with subject…

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
Deadline: March 15, 2025

"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."

medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!

The Creative Future Writers’ Award for underrepresented writers is open!
Theme: Wild
Deadline: 18 May
Prizes: cash, print antholgy, development support from Creative Future & read at the winners' showcase as part of the London Literature Festival 2025
www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...

I don’t know why I had this thought today but ‘reverse griffin’ is so pointlessly funny. Look at him! Just a little bird butt stuck to a lion head.

JURASSIC PARK x AMMONITE

Shunned by Geological Society, Mary Anning stumbles on a portal to the past—live & v v toothy dinosaurs! But is human ambition the deadliest foe of all?
Queer love, fun banter.
#2025pit

Editors, contact my agent Laura Zats!

(If you enjoy this idea, boost with a repost!)

On days I have a hard time keeping warm in my own weather, I imagine what the flower wanted to say to the first human trying to name half of its petals love-me-nots: No, that is not how anything grows.

that is not how anything grows

- Andrea Gibson

Feelin a lot of big feels this week. Wishing I could write through it but the words drip out these days. Not enough for a puddle or a paragraph

Just checking in to say I made it to 36 and fuck if it hasn’t been a strange year

never not surprised at how hard moby dick slaps

Oh snap. I mean. Yeah I live in London, so it won’t be posted very far at that rate 😉

This is the kind of thing I see and go ‘oh I really should have used my PhD for this’ 😂
(will be picking up a copy!)

Let there be a patron saint of making impossible birds very annoyed.

a new favourite line from Chen Chen

as I mean to go on:
more writing
more reading
more self time that isn’t screen time or me time that isn’t scream time
more baths? (I don’t know if I like baths)
more movement: any kind, all the kinds
more kind words floating through my brain
more vegetables for good measure.

GARLAND 4 proposals This is the proposal form for issue 4 of GARLAND, a guest-edited literary magazine by fifth wheel press. We are searching for queer, trans, and gender variant editors or editorial teams to run a theme...

back with a quickie call: send us your proposals for GARLAND 4 by dec 31

forms.gle/jy3LxHiCgfxx...

Christmas Eve rewatch of Rent as tradition demands

A blessed solstice friends 💜