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“We do this [write] because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning in it” - Sandra Cisneros

Not for profit/For prophecy

https://burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/june-2025-guest-editor-is-john-trefry-theme-inanimism/
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BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social
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ULTRAVIOLET

Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust

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This mid-week ULTRAVIOLET offering for @thearsonista.bsky.social is a deep cut excerpted from Sadakichi Hartmann's decadent, fin de siècle play, Christ, in which the life of the Only Begotten is blessed by... nudity and orgies ✝️✝️✝️
Excerpt from Christ by Sadakichi Hartmann
Thought and feeling are forgotten, only the body lives!
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January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Hint: will be publishing again with @thearsonista.bsky.social later tonight, a late night post for more mature audiences 🌙 but for now, some teasers...
January 21, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Only six days left to contribute to the ULTRAVIOLET edition - guest editor @kawaishen.bsky.social awaits your submissions until 25/01

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BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social
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ULTRAVIOLET

Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust

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January 19, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Only six days left to contribute to the ULTRAVIOLET edition - guest editor @kawaishen.bsky.social awaits your submissions until 25/01

sendsendx
BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social
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ULTRAVIOLET

Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust

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January 19, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social
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ULTRAVIOLET

Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust

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January 3, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Today's ULTRAVIOLET offering, courtesy of
@thearsonista.bsky.social, is Holy Water (Overflow), a zine-like photo-poetry collaboration by Colin Campbell Robinson & Paul Hawkins 💧 burninghousepress.com/2026/01/19/h...
Holy Water (Overflow) by Colin Campbell Robinson and Paul Hawkins
We slip out into the night-bar, drink beyond satiety; fall in thestreet of inequality, the place we live.
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January 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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One week left to submit to @thearsonista.bsky.social! Send me all your luscious adjectives and flights of form 💌
January 18, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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This weekend offering, courtesy of @thearsonista.bsky.social, is a poem that finds the numinous in an unexpected figure by the Harlem Renaissance poet and activist, Anne Spencer burninghousepress.com/2026/01/18/a.... Stay tuned for new work scheduled to drop next week 💜
At the Carnival by Anne Spencer
For you—who amid the malodorousMechanics of this unlovely thing,Are darling of spirit and form.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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The latest ULTRAVIOLET offering for you, courtesy of @thearsonista.bsky.social is a sanguineous micro about a unique woman and her cilice by @notveryalice.bsky.social: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/16/c...
Crown of Thorns by Alice M.
… when she kneeled at the altar, we saw blood fall, not blood I whispered not blood at all, but purple blackberries, bouncing fat on the stone
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January 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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For our first ULTRAVIOLET offering for @thearsonista.bsky.social, feast your eyes on the exquisitely detailed, haunting art of Jacob Wiebe: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/11/f...
Five Illustrations by Jacob Wiebe
Visit the post for more.
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January 11, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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A note from January’s Guest Editor

Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social

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Subs are still open for the Ultraviolet edition

Sendsendx

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ULTRAVIOLET: Guest Editor’s note
I’d intended to write a brief introduction to the ULTRAVIOLET themed issue of Burning House Press but will instead juxtapose two seemingly incongruous observations.
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January 11, 2026 at 9:11 AM
A note from January’s Guest Editor

Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social

&&&__

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Subs are still open for the Ultraviolet edition

Sendsendx

burninghousepress.com/2026/01/10/u...
ULTRAVIOLET: Guest Editor’s note
I’d intended to write a brief introduction to the ULTRAVIOLET themed issue of Burning House Press but will instead juxtapose two seemingly incongruous observations.
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January 11, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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ICYMI, I'm this month's guest editor for @thearsonista.bsky.social!

Theme: ULTRAVIOLET 💜
Art: ☑️
Previously published: ☑️
Racy work: ☑️
Deadline: Jan 25
Guidelines: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/03/j...
JANUARY 2026 Guest Editor Is KAWAI SHEN!!! Theme: ULTRAVIOLET
Burning House Press are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as the sixth BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today Kawai will take over editorship of Burning House Press…
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January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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The first post for the ULTRAVIOLET issue of @thearsonista.bsky.social will be up soon 💜

Until then, a note from your guest editor: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/10/u...
ULTRAVIOLET: Guest Editor’s note
I’d intended to write a brief introduction to the ULTRAVIOLET themed issue of Burning House Press but will instead juxtapose two seemingly incongruous observations.
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January 10, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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January 2025
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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Start your year off right and submit to me 💜
BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social
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ULTRAVIOLET

Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust

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January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
BHP are excited to welcome Kawai Shen as Jan26 guest editor! @kawaishen.bsky.social
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ULTRAVIOLET

Fresh bruises, wine stains, amethyst talismans, wilted lilacs, metallic fougeres, overripe mulberries, indigo children, laser burns, grape candy, supernova dust

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January 3, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Big thanks to @thearsonista.bsky.social @m58poetry.bsky.social @rangermagazine.bsky.social and Word For/Word for putting out my work in 2025 and to @c22press.bsky.social for bringing Midnight Double Feature back to life: c22press.wordpress.com/open-editions/

Exciting things to come in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The full December 2025 edition guest edited for BHP by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social is now live! Check it out at link below 🖤🥳

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My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico – December 2025 edition Guest Edited/Curated by Matthew Kinlin
Visit the post for more.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Coming soon…
January 1st 2026
___new guest editor/s
new theme/s
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December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Deleted all meta/insta beginning of the year - but insta seems to be where the majority of the lit community still remain? … Anyways, we’re there if you’re there 📕 🖼️ 🖤
BHP has jumped back on Instagram see you there if you’re there 🖤

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December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Subs are now closed for December’s edition - thanks to everyone who has contributed work so far to an incredible month - @matthewkinlin.bsky.social will be selecting and presenting the final pieces 🖤
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Massive thank you to Matthew Kinlin @matthewkinlin.bsky.social and everyone who has contributed to the incredible Nico edition this month! Do check out all the pieces over at burninghousepress.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Wrote a short reflective essay to finish up Nico month with @thearsonista.bsky.social ❄️ Big thanks to everyone that sent work and to @miggyangel.bsky.social 💖
Always Leave Them Wanting Less by Matthew Kinlin
From Nico Femme Fatale compilation. At the age of twenty-four, I decided to die. I planned it all out like a game. It was like ordering a shiny dress from a catalogue. Twenty-four was the perfect a…
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December 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Deleted all meta/insta beginning of the year - but insta seems to be where the majority of the lit community still remain? … Anyways, we’re there if you’re there 📕 🖼️ 🖤
BHP has jumped back on Instagram see you there if you’re there 🖤

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December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM