brittany
@britomatic.bsky.social
trash bird/word nerd. Microhap out now w/ Ghost City Press 🪶work in X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Identity Theory, Daily Drunk etc. she/her/dr.
https://linktr.ee/britomatic
📍London
https://linktr.ee/britomatic
📍London
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
September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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
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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.
September 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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.
It’s that time, once again. Here’s the lineup for our 10th annual Summer Series!
July 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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!!
🐦🌈🪶
All the Birds are Gay!!
🐦🌈🪶
ALL THE BIRDS ARE GAY!! by Brittany Thomas (@britomatic.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
July 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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!!
🐦🌈🪶
All the Birds are Gay!!
🐦🌈🪶
whew all the gay mags sending their rejections on the same day after lgbtq+ history month 😭😂
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
whew all the gay mags sending their rejections on the same day after lgbtq+ history month 😭😂
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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
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
February 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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
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.
February 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Queer community is regularly trading with another woman on Vinted.
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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.
we cannot forget the soft ones.
February 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
we cannot forget the soft ones.
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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/
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/
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.…
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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/
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/
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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...
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...
February 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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...
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
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/...
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/...
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…
medium.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Omg my favourite genre - GAY LETTERS!!
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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/...
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/...
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…
medium.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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/...
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/...
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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...
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...
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!
www.creativefuture.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
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.
January 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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.
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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!)
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!)
January 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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!)
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!)
that is not how anything grows
- Andrea Gibson
- Andrea Gibson
January 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
that is not how anything grows
- Andrea Gibson
- 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
January 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
January 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
never not surprised at how hard moby dick slaps
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!)
(will be picking up a copy!)
Behold! The cover & concept of and pre-order for Mostly Soldiers, a chapbook of poetry about statues & bodies (the ways we value, exalt & distort them).
U.K. readers get cheap shipping + get the book 1st, weeks before publication!
Read all about it: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
U.K. readers get cheap shipping + get the book 1st, weeks before publication!
Read all about it: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
January 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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!)
(will be picking up a copy!)
a new favourite line from Chen Chen
January 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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.
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.
January 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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.
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.
Christmas Eve rewatch of Rent as tradition demands
December 24, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Christmas Eve rewatch of Rent as tradition demands