Ava Serra
@avaserra.bsky.social
Author || avaserra.com || they/she
Writing poems about disorder, drivel, and dirt. And my uterus.
Writing poems about disorder, drivel, and dirt. And my uterus.
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July and August used to be the best month because that is when school would be out for the summer. Is real funny how they call it summer when Guyana is summer all year round, eh? But back then them thing didn’t matter.
~from "All That Hunger, All That Thirst"
by Subraj Singh
AGNI 98
~from "All That Hunger, All That Thirst"
by Subraj Singh
AGNI 98
All That Hunger, All That Thirst
July and August used to be the best month because that is when school would be out for the summer. Is real funny how they call it summer when Guyana is summer all year round, eh? But back then them…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
July and August used to be the best month because that is when school would be out for the summer. Is real funny how they call it summer when Guyana is summer all year round, eh? But back then them thing didn’t matter.
~from "All That Hunger, All That Thirst"
by Subraj Singh
AGNI 98
~from "All That Hunger, All That Thirst"
by Subraj Singh
AGNI 98
❗️New poem out❗️
"Pandemic Prognosis" (parts 7 & 21) out with White Wall Review
whitewallreview.com/2025/11/pand...
Would you believe that this poem was originally musing on ADHD 😶🌫️
"Pandemic Prognosis" (parts 7 & 21) out with White Wall Review
whitewallreview.com/2025/11/pand...
Would you believe that this poem was originally musing on ADHD 😶🌫️
Pandemic Prognosis – White Wall Review
whitewallreview.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
❗️New poem out❗️
"Pandemic Prognosis" (parts 7 & 21) out with White Wall Review
whitewallreview.com/2025/11/pand...
Would you believe that this poem was originally musing on ADHD 😶🌫️
"Pandemic Prognosis" (parts 7 & 21) out with White Wall Review
whitewallreview.com/2025/11/pand...
Would you believe that this poem was originally musing on ADHD 😶🌫️
Dear Glinda O pussy witch
Opening line of "Letter Drafts to My Gynecologist," in this issue of SoFloPoJo. Dear reader, I'm honored and thrilled and so grateful to SoFloPoJo for platforming my pussy poem.
Opening line of "Letter Drafts to My Gynecologist," in this issue of SoFloPoJo. Dear reader, I'm honored and thrilled and so grateful to SoFloPoJo for platforming my pussy poem.
SoFloPoJo November Issue #39
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Dear Glinda O pussy witch
Opening line of "Letter Drafts to My Gynecologist," in this issue of SoFloPoJo. Dear reader, I'm honored and thrilled and so grateful to SoFloPoJo for platforming my pussy poem.
Opening line of "Letter Drafts to My Gynecologist," in this issue of SoFloPoJo. Dear reader, I'm honored and thrilled and so grateful to SoFloPoJo for platforming my pussy poem.
Workshop by Eric and in collab with discount guillotine? 😍😍😍
This Sunday! WRITERS & BREWS LITERARY SALON --FREE!! let us know you're coming at www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-br...
#writing #writingcommunity ✍️✍️💙🍺
#writing #writingcommunity ✍️✍️💙🍺
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Workshop by Eric and in collab with discount guillotine? 😍😍😍
What I told someone to expect from my workshop tomorrow: "Write. Make it weirder. Look at it. Make it weirder again."
6 spots left in "Baroque Confessionalism" & 24 spots left for those who only want to attend the panel discussion on disability and writing!
Bethesda, MD
writer.org/event/disabi...
6 spots left in "Baroque Confessionalism" & 24 spots left for those who only want to attend the panel discussion on disability and writing!
Bethesda, MD
writer.org/event/disabi...
Disability Through a Literary Lens - The Writer's Center
The Writer’s Center presents a FREE symposium addressing the subject of disability in literature and popular culture, offering free creative writing workshops and a panel discussion. Featured writers ...
writer.org
October 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What I told someone to expect from my workshop tomorrow: "Write. Make it weirder. Look at it. Make it weirder again."
6 spots left in "Baroque Confessionalism" & 24 spots left for those who only want to attend the panel discussion on disability and writing!
Bethesda, MD
writer.org/event/disabi...
6 spots left in "Baroque Confessionalism" & 24 spots left for those who only want to attend the panel discussion on disability and writing!
Bethesda, MD
writer.org/event/disabi...
Disability Through a Literary Lens at The Writer's Center October 4, 2025
Wanna get weird in writing with me? I'm leading the Baroque Confessionalism workshop! We'll center disabled and/or neurodivergent experiences while defying ableist stigma with glorious, craft-based absurdity.
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Wanna get weird in writing with me? I'm leading the Baroque Confessionalism workshop! We'll center disabled and/or neurodivergent experiences while defying ableist stigma with glorious, craft-based absurdity.
1/2
Disability Through a Literary Lens - The Writer's Center
The Writer’s Center presents a FREE symposium addressing the subject of disability in literature and popular culture, offering free creative writing workshops and a panel discussion. Featured writers ...
writer.org
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Disability Through a Literary Lens at The Writer's Center October 4, 2025
Wanna get weird in writing with me? I'm leading the Baroque Confessionalism workshop! We'll center disabled and/or neurodivergent experiences while defying ableist stigma with glorious, craft-based absurdity.
1/2
Wanna get weird in writing with me? I'm leading the Baroque Confessionalism workshop! We'll center disabled and/or neurodivergent experiences while defying ableist stigma with glorious, craft-based absurdity.
1/2
@esdaschle.bsky.social Congrats!! So deserved
#BESTOFTHENET nominations from our bi-weekly, online lit magazine WWPH WRITES! BIG CONGRATS!!!
Read all at www.washingtonwriters.org
Now open for submissions. Paying market. Reach over 1,500 subscribers. DC, Maryland, and Virginia writers, please.
#writingcommunity✍️ #poetry✍️#cnf✍️
Read all at www.washingtonwriters.org
Now open for submissions. Paying market. Reach over 1,500 subscribers. DC, Maryland, and Virginia writers, please.
#writingcommunity✍️ #poetry✍️#cnf✍️
September 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@esdaschle.bsky.social Congrats!! So deserved
AMERICA'S FUTURE is OUT!
It's taken me too long to post about this b/c I open the book and get entranced. So, so grateful to be part of the rallying cry. Thank you thank you THANK YOU @wwph.bsky.social
www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
It's taken me too long to post about this b/c I open the book and get entranced. So, so grateful to be part of the rallying cry. Thank you thank you THANK YOU @wwph.bsky.social
www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
September 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
AMERICA'S FUTURE is OUT!
It's taken me too long to post about this b/c I open the book and get entranced. So, so grateful to be part of the rallying cry. Thank you thank you THANK YOU @wwph.bsky.social
www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
It's taken me too long to post about this b/c I open the book and get entranced. So, so grateful to be part of the rallying cry. Thank you thank you THANK YOU @wwph.bsky.social
www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
August 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
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A very AMERICAN HAIKU... part of our annual TINY POEM issues in our little lit magazine WWPH Writes. More at www.washingtonwriters.org #queerbookworms🌈 #poetry
August 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A very AMERICAN HAIKU... part of our annual TINY POEM issues in our little lit magazine WWPH Writes. More at www.washingtonwriters.org #queerbookworms🌈 #poetry
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Our VIRTUAL LAUNCH of AMERICA'S FUTURE. Own it. Join us. RSVP for Zoom link at the fabulous @thewriterscenter.bsky.social writer.org/event/americ...
#writingcommunity #DC #MD #VA 📚
#writingcommunity #DC #MD #VA 📚
August 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our VIRTUAL LAUNCH of AMERICA'S FUTURE. Own it. Join us. RSVP for Zoom link at the fabulous @thewriterscenter.bsky.social writer.org/event/americ...
#writingcommunity #DC #MD #VA 📚
#writingcommunity #DC #MD #VA 📚
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July 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Happy Pride my dear friends! If you're in the US and attending a protest today be safe and know your rights!
Be safe, be happy, be you my darlings, and remember that none of us is alone.
Be safe, be happy, be you my darlings, and remember that none of us is alone.
June 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy Pride my dear friends! If you're in the US and attending a protest today be safe and know your rights!
Be safe, be happy, be you my darlings, and remember that none of us is alone.
Be safe, be happy, be you my darlings, and remember that none of us is alone.
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Find us out at the World Pride Street Festival in DC on this Saturday and Sunday... June 7 & 8th ...we'll have copies for sale at our table!!🌈 More details at www.washingtonwriters.org Happy Pride!
#lgbtqia #lgbtquia🏳️🌈 #lgbtqbooks #worldpride
#lgbtqia #lgbtquia🏳️🌈 #lgbtqbooks #worldpride
June 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Find us out at the World Pride Street Festival in DC on this Saturday and Sunday... June 7 & 8th ...we'll have copies for sale at our table!!🌈 More details at www.washingtonwriters.org Happy Pride!
#lgbtqia #lgbtquia🏳️🌈 #lgbtqbooks #worldpride
#lgbtqia #lgbtquia🏳️🌈 #lgbtqbooks #worldpride
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My novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” is out in the world today. I poured all my tenderness and childhood into this story, and I hope you find tenderness in it too✨
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
February 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” is out in the world today. I poured all my tenderness and childhood into this story, and I hope you find tenderness in it too✨
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/
Everything is completely fine in the States and that's what we're all writing about in this anthology, obviously. /s
Fresh out of UMD's MFA program, Eric Baker and I have poems in this upcoming anthology from the utterly necessary @wwph.bsky.social
Fresh out of UMD's MFA program, Eric Baker and I have poems in this upcoming anthology from the utterly necessary @wwph.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Everything is completely fine in the States and that's what we're all writing about in this anthology, obviously. /s
Fresh out of UMD's MFA program, Eric Baker and I have poems in this upcoming anthology from the utterly necessary @wwph.bsky.social
Fresh out of UMD's MFA program, Eric Baker and I have poems in this upcoming anthology from the utterly necessary @wwph.bsky.social
Bummed that I can't be there with my people, but my poem will be there 👀 among other rad gay pieces 👀
May 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Bummed that I can't be there with my people, but my poem will be there 👀 among other rad gay pieces 👀
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Honored to have “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows” published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social on the 2025 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award Shortlist✨
"Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant, they linger on the mind. We are delighted to share them." Judge Andre Bagoo (@pleasureblog)
Sponsored by @ALCS and @Hawthornden Foundation, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is awarded for a short story of up to 5,000 words
🧵
Sponsored by @ALCS and @Hawthornden Foundation, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is awarded for a short story of up to 5,000 words
🧵
May 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Honored to have “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows” published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social on the 2025 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award Shortlist✨
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Subraj Singh just won the Caribbean section of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the winning story is in Granta, you can check it out here, and you should, it's good stuff (getting that Caribbean SF/F in Granta, love it!), it's a good story!
granta.com/margots-run/
granta.com/margots-run/
May 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Subraj Singh just won the Caribbean section of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the winning story is in Granta, you can check it out here, and you should, it's good stuff (getting that Caribbean SF/F in Granta, love it!), it's a good story!
granta.com/margots-run/
granta.com/margots-run/
Cinna watched me post about Norrie and wouldn't stop meowing indignantly. So here's an apt photo to appease our household's registered cat god.
The cat god is now trying to stuff her paw in my mouth.
The cat god is now trying to stuff her paw in my mouth.
May 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Cinna watched me post about Norrie and wouldn't stop meowing indignantly. So here's an apt photo to appease our household's registered cat god.
The cat god is now trying to stuff her paw in my mouth.
The cat god is now trying to stuff her paw in my mouth.
The Happiest Cat Alive Becomes Happier: Norrie recently discovered that she does indeed like treats
May 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Happiest Cat Alive Becomes Happier: Norrie recently discovered that she does indeed like treats
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You can read my flash story here!
Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨
"Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."
Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨
"Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."
WWPH WRITES 97 - the little lit magazine from your Washington Writers' Publishing House - is NOW LIVE with poetry by MEG EDEN and flash fiction from EDWARD DASCHLE -- a fast, fun read here www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/05/10/w...
#writingcommunity #booksky💙📚
#writingcommunity #booksky💙📚
May 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
You can read my flash story here!
Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨
"Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."
Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨
"Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."
"Elective Hysterectomy as Treatment, With Complete Notes" now out in Arkana Issue 18! (arkanamag.org/2025/04/29/e...)
"Elated" and "thrilled" are understatements. Look at the amazing art paired with the work! (“Anxiety 2” by Thomas Riesner)
"Elated" and "thrilled" are understatements. Look at the amazing art paired with the work! (“Anxiety 2” by Thomas Riesner)
April 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"Elective Hysterectomy as Treatment, With Complete Notes" now out in Arkana Issue 18! (arkanamag.org/2025/04/29/e...)
"Elated" and "thrilled" are understatements. Look at the amazing art paired with the work! (“Anxiety 2” by Thomas Riesner)
"Elated" and "thrilled" are understatements. Look at the amazing art paired with the work! (“Anxiety 2” by Thomas Riesner)
Reposting because the replies are (for the most part) an absolute riot and delight 👁👁
Ophthalmologists: How much could an eyeball lift? Like, how many would have to work together to lift five pounds.
April 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reposting because the replies are (for the most part) an absolute riot and delight 👁👁
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