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Haley (they/them)
@talkinghyphae.bsky.social
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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🥹 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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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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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!
September 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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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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
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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@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. 🙏💙
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
August 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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
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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
August 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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[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
August 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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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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
🥹 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
Book 6 for my #SealeyChallenge was We Are Mermaids by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social. Loved this and will be teaching it in my writing workshop
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
#SealeyChallenge Day 5 is The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Cy. Weise.

Read Cy.’s collected BORG.DIEM at ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu...
August 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."

#ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge
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August 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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.
August 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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!
August 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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
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.
August 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
So excited to be a part of this team and to read so much amazing queer writing. Editors, get ready to submit!
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
August 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My first book for the #SealeyChallenge is The Trees Witness Everything by @victoriachang.bsky.social

What are you reading this month?
August 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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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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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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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
July 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM