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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 · 3d
A line from each of my published pieces from 2025 📚🪐

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A collage of lines of poetry over a photo of a nonbinary person pointing at the Grand Canyon
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I’d love it if you took a minute to read my @tupelopress.bsky.social 30/30 poem draft for today!

If you’d like, you can sponsor my writing and help keep Tupelo printing for another year: tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/274...
Hopecore / Haley Bosse When I tell the doctor I was exposed to RSV, he puts on a mask. How I only have to search her name to rewatch Princess Diana hugging AIDS patients. Knowing that if I get sick someone will hug me. Knowing that the first time I had Covid, my partner hugged me from behind through a plastic tarp. The memory of both our masked faces seeding clouds into frigid air. The hutch of seeds sleeping in the lobby of the public library. The older man googling how to support my trans daughter in the public library. Replying All in the Zoom chat: still here!
January 8, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
“16. After your mother stopped playing, I ended up buying a ball machine instead. It’s a lot different than hitting with someone else.”

This new one in @havehashad.com by @binhdaur.bsky.social really snuck up with the gut punch. Man, I love a great list story.

www.havehashad.com/hpzt7
Things My Father Says About Tennis by Binh Do
Bounce the ball a few times on the baseline. Hold it against your racquet. Toss it high above your head. If you do everything right, you can swing your racquet up and have the ball just screaming down...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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tommywyattblake.bsky.social
hello! this is now open for preorders. $5+shipping~

digital version will be available to purchase upon pub date of 2/14/26

"read this for psychic damage" is a poetry microchapbook that consists of erasures of abusers messages

link: ko-fi.com/s/34573ec3c4
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 AM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
A line from each of my published pieces from 2025 📚🪐

Comment for links to the full versions!
A collage of lines of poetry over a photo of a nonbinary person pointing at the Grand Canyon
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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antiheroinchic.bsky.social
Friends, we are back and officially open for submissions today! We will be reading for our Feb issue with a deadline of Jan 30th. Please take a moment to review our guidelines as we have made some changes. We very much look forward to reading your work!

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January 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
to everyone we published in 2025 and beyond, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
the covers of fifth wheel press' 2025 publications are arranged on a graphic that reads "thanks for a great year!"
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
I have four eligible poems! First is Aurora Autofills, originally published by Spellbinder! It’s eligible in the standard category and will be in my upcoming chapbook, Aurora Comes Online (out in February from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social )

Nominate here: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Aurora Autofills Imagine me Plumish Practiced Pixie Cut Pompadour Imagine me Buzz Cut Buzz Kill Blunt Hand Deep Pour Imagine me How I Alwaysneverwas— Pink, imagining Playdoh Catdog Crossword Imagine Crossdressed Primprancing Catwalk Imagine me Beaming Imagine Beamed Up Spacewagon No-man Solo Imagine me Extraterrestrial Terrastructure Imagine me Terrible Imagine Waving and Window, imagining Everywhere and Imagine Me There. Don’t Imagine Forget.
January 2, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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anmlymag.bsky.social
ANMLY is now open for new work!

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/ap41
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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December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
Strange Horizons is still open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors!

More info about this submission window:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Submission guidelines:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

We look forward to reading your stories!
Fiction Submissions OPEN Indigenous Authors
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
✂️ CALL FOR SUBS & THEME REVEAL!✂️

Issue 8: Collage is OPEN Dec 1-Jan 31

Submitters have permission to REMIX a large selection of our Archive! buff.ly/dWZdncU

See our OFF LIMITS LIST for limitations: buff.ly/CDwSomV.

See Guidelines for RULES: buff.ly/9iwzYqR

Get inspired with de / composition!
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!

Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.

This #Spotlight is on Haley Bosse @talkinghyphae.bsky.social!
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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
A Black woman holding a single tarot card before her, obscuring her face
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