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Haley (they/them)
@talkinghyphae.bsky.social
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Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.

Read my writing at haleybosse.com
Find my writing workshop at @mycelialwriters on IG
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · Aug 11
🥹 Feeling really honored by this nom from @petrichorlit.bsky.social for my weird, speculative poem about agrotourism in the Willamette Valley.

Read it here:
petrichormag.com/26-haley-bos...
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gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work.

gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
SUBMISSIONS Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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nervetowrite.bsky.social
Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!
A tan image includes the black Nerve to Write logo featuring a raspberry-colored neuron in the top left corner and the dark purple words “A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers” along with the raspberry words “Now open for submissions” and the purple text “nervetowrite.com.” In the top right and bottom left corner of the black neurons stretch off the image.
September 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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epistemiclit.bsky.social
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TO THE WOMAN READING THE PROTEST FLYER AT THE GROCERY STORE -
After Kim Addonizio
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August 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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gameoverbooks.bsky.social
A massive thank you to everyone that submitted to the last reading period! Our next reading period will be in May '26. In the meantime, get ready for some new books!
August 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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splitthisrock.bsky.social
We're excited to announce a generous challenge grant from the Poetry Foundation! Gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for their support.

Gifts we receive in the coming weeks will be DOUBLED, up to $25,000. Double your impact & donate today! DONATE ONLINE: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock

#Poetry
At the top, Split This Rock’s red logo. Below, bold heading text reads “Double Your Donation” with a circle that says “x2” to the right. Body text reads “The Poetry Foundation will now match donations up to $25,000. This is your chance to make your gift to Split This Rock go twice as far. If we unlock this challenge grant, we will have raised over 80% of our $68,750 goal. DONATE TODAY” The Poetry Foundation logo is to the right. There is a URL for Split This Rock’s online giving portal at the bottom: bit.ly/GiveSplitThisRock.
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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burgi.bsky.social
@splitthisrock.bsky.social needs our support! #SplitThisRock is a great source of inspiration, potential, and opportunity for the DC Area community, lit. & otherwise. Let's help keep its lights on. Spread the word, donate time or $$. Read on. 🙏💙
splitthisrock.bsky.social Split This Rock @splitthisrock.bsky.social · Aug 27
Want to attend a Split This Rock fundraising event? We're gathering community with in-person events in Washington, DC & virtual events to connect to the heart of Split This Rock’s work & raise funds to keep it going. Get your name on the list: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock
#Poets
The background of the graphic is a photo of a crowd at a Split This Rock event. At the top, the red logo is on a projector screen above the crowd. Bold white text is overlaid on the image: “WANT TO ATTEND A SPLIT THIS ROCK FUNDRAISER? Let us know if you’re available for virtual or in-person events.” Below is a red box with white text: “Fill you this brief form to get your name on the list: bit.ly/HelpSplitThisRock.”
August 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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julianplum.com
feeling particularly excited & grateful today to be a trans person!! it is an existence that others are trying to make difficult and that does definitely get to me but like... I really like who I am now, and I like the unique perspectives that transness gives me.
August 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
Generous and warm online workshop coming up from the wonderful Meg Hayertz:

creativemomentum.art/workshops/ho...
Words Glowing like Honey: From Self-Doubt to Self-Compassion and Creative Flow — Creative Momentum
When we’re writing regularly, we show up to our life as our full self. Engaged. Curious. Open. But when we’re stuck, we can start doubting our skills or even whether we’re meant to be writing. We...
creativemomentum.art
August 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! If your prose or poetry features the Black American South, this one is for YOU. *reprints only!* This call closes August 30. Details on our submissions page:
fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/Writers
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August 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy] 
by Em Setzer

"When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do."

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
POETRY by Em Setzer [Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy]  Quote "When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do." 18 August 2025 Strange Horizons
August 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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fahmidangroup.bsky.social
We’re looking for thoughtful, passionate creatives to lead dynamic workshops with Fahmidan Education. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge, connect with engaged learners, and make an impact in the global literary and arts community.
Apply: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/33240...
August 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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commonmag.bsky.social
Attention writers! In an effort to remove barriers to access, The Common will open for fee-free submissions from August 15-22. We encourage any and all communities underrepresented in U.S. literary magazines and journals to send in your writing! Read more below:

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August 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
🥹 Feeling really honored by this nom from @petrichorlit.bsky.social for my weird, speculative poem about agrotourism in the Willamette Valley.

Read it here:
petrichormag.com/26-haley-bos...
August 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
Book 6 for my #SealeyChallenge was We Are Mermaids by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Loved this and will be teaching it in my writing workshop
The cover of We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt. Three mermaids with colorfully patterned tails float among sea creatures.
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
#SealeyChallenge Day 5 is The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Cy. Weise.

Read Cy.’s collected BORG.DIEM at ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu...
A photo of the cover of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Cy. Weise. The author credited on the cover is Jillian Weise. You can see the photographer’s reflection in the glossy black cover and their thumb holding the book.
August 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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bullcitypress.com
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

#ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge
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August 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
Day 4: Meltwater by @cwahmanholm.bsky.social

I read this whole book in one sitting, in the sneaky presence of a tiny snake, and am still dazed by its vivid grief.
The cover of Meltwater: Poems by Claire Wahmanholm. The cover is a photograph of the deep blue meltwater between two white glaciers. The water splits the cover.
August 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
My #SealeyChallenge Day 3 was Transgenesis by Ava Nathaniel Winter.

Shoutout to the Eugene Public Library and reminder that you can request your Sealey Challenge books from your local library!
The cover of Transgenesis by Ava Nathaniel Winter with a dried orange petal half-covering the Eugene Public Library barcode. The cover is an abstract blue, green, orange, and pink pattern that looks like oil on water.
August 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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openpoetrybooks.bsky.social
Wow! We're up to 175 participants & more than $10k in pledges/direct contributions!

Let’s keep the momentum going ❤️‍🔥 You can still join the #sealeychallenge Poetry Pledge Fundraiser for Gaza, as a participant or sponsor, at any time. Details here: mailchi.mp/openpoetrybo...
August 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
For #SealeyChallenge day 2, I’m reading the brilliant Rose Zinnia’s Togethering.

Also, reminder to show your book to snails you encounter bc sometimes they will want to crawl all over the book and explore it for 15+ minutes & will leave you with little snail chomps out of the pages.
A photo of a snail stretching out its antenas and head to look at the three figures on the cover of Togethering by Rose Zinnia. The figures on the cover are braiding each others hair while looking at flowers. A photo of a snail stretching out its entire body to climb onto the cover of Togethering by Rose Zinnia. The figures on the cover are braiding each others hair while looking at flowers. The snail’s body is on the middle figure’s body. :: I’m feeling sexy & alive & embodied for the first time in my life. Sometimes I just weep, staring at my wrist, my shoulder, the breasts forming on my chest. To have been mostly dissociated from spirit for three decades. & then: to erupt into earth form. We’re never final. Complete in incompleteness. Bayo Akomolafe: “God is still being worked out. God is not just an essence, God is a becoming, God is a dying, God is a living. God is the animacy of a mushroom world. God is the weather. God is geology. […] I like to think about God in this way, as fugitive, as the crack in things that disciplined our attempts to name with any sense of finality.” We, dancing nonlinearly through time. This year of becoming flowers. An anaphoric loop: stung in order to bloom. From Togethering by Rose Zinnia
August 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
So excited to be a part of this team and to read so much amazing queer writing. Editors, get ready to submit!
monarch.gay Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay · Aug 1
Hello, friends! We're Monarch Queer Literary Awards, a project of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. Monarch is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. 🦋

Submissions open September 1. Until then, get to know us: monarch.gay
Hi, we’re Monarch. Monarch Queer Literary Awards is a new anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. We aim to uplift the groundbreaking and often under-celebrated poems, short stories, essays, and artwork that are published in magazines, chapbooks, zines, and other collections. More about Monarch. We want to celebrate excellence in all regards: great writing and great community stewardship. While submissions from both emerging and established publications will (of course) be given equal consideration, we really hope to see some of our longstanding community members come out and join us in the revelry of it all! Submit to Monarch. We will accept submissions from September 1 through November 30, 2025. Submissions must come from the editor or editors of the publication. Journals and independent presses are eligible. The work must have been initially published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, either online or in print.
August 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
My first book for the #SealeyChallenge is The Trees Witness Everything by @victoriachang.bsky.social

What are you reading this month?
A photograph of Victoria Chang’s book The Trees Witness Everything with trees visible behind the book. Passage Every leaf that falls never stops falling. I once thought that leaves were leaves. Now I think they are feeling, in search of a place— someone’s hair, a park bench, a finger. Isn’t that like us, going from place to place, looking to be alive? -Victoria Chang
August 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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anmlymag.bsky.social
ANMLY is open for new work for 3 more days!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap40
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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esswrites.bsky.social
I have a new essay out in Cleaver #49. It's about trans shit. I hope it strikes a chord.

Here's a link: www.cleavermagazine.com/haunted-by-e...

The whole issue is worth a read: www.cleavermagazine.com/issue-49-spr...

#nonfiction #memior #essays #CNF #lgbtqia #trans
Ess Pokornowski: HAUNTED • Cleaver Magazine
Ess Pokornowski is a trans, queer, and crip writer. She's published and taught about bodies, fantastic monstrosity, violence, and justice.
www.cleavermagazine.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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hencarnell.bsky.social
My partner is now not just a published poet & fiction writer, but a published visual artist as well!!! @talkinghyphae.bsky.social
www.feministspacesjournal.org/issues
Magazine cover of feet and black smears with black text "Feminist Spaces" "Volume 5" "Issue 1" "The Censorship Issue"
July 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM