Zoë Bossiere
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
Writer | Managing Editor at brevitymag.com | CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR out now from Abrams Books | Indies Introduce & Indie NEXT | rep’d by @frecklywench.bsky.social | they/she 🏳️⚧️🏜 | https://linktr.ee/zoebossiere | zoebossiere.com
Thank you @bookriot.bsky.social for featuring Cactus Country on this list of books to read for Genderfluid Visibility Week! bookriot.com/genderfluid-...
3 Genderfluid Books to Read for Genderfluid Visibility Week
Pick up these books for Genderfluid Visibility Week, including historical romance, YA fantasy, and memoir.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Thank you @bookriot.bsky.social for featuring Cactus Country on this list of books to read for Genderfluid Visibility Week! bookriot.com/genderfluid-...
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit
Brevity Submission Manager
Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. See our Submissions page for guidelines.
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September 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit
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We do not and will never encourage writers to use AI in the drafting of creative literary work, and neither Brevity the literary magazine nor The Brevity Blog will consider work that is AI-generated or assisted.
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Does Brevity Accept AI-Generated Work?
By Dinty W. Moore To be brief, as our name promises, the answer is no. Brevity, the literary magazine, does not accept work that has been produced through use of AI or encourage the use of AI in cr…
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June 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We do not and will never encourage writers to use AI in the drafting of creative literary work, and neither Brevity the literary magazine nor The Brevity Blog will consider work that is AI-generated or assisted.
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling
June 22, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling
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"The more I wrote, the more I remembered. The more I remembered, the more I returned to myself." ~ @zoebossiere.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"The more I wrote, the more I remembered. The more I remembered, the more I returned to myself." ~ @zoebossiere.bsky.social
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"We would exchange books to save our lives, to create a conversation that helped us challenge the violence of the culture around us and imagine something else [...] In a certain sense, you hold onto books as if they’re friends. And ammunition as well."
Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social
Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social
BOMB Magazine | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by Amy Gall
Intimacy, gay bar politics, and our search for the communities we desire.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"We would exchange books to save our lives, to create a conversation that helped us challenge the violence of the culture around us and imagine something else [...] In a certain sense, you hold onto books as if they’re friends. And ammunition as well."
Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social
Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social
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i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.
if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...
if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...
April 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.
if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...
if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...
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#AWP25 haul.
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)
April 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!
April 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!
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AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social
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Today is my birthday & #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️⚧️! I would love it if you shared my genderqueer debut novel ENDPAPERS, which
"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
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"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
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Endpapers
Check out Endpapers - It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't created anything of her own...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Today is my birthday & #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️⚧️! I would love it if you shared my genderqueer debut novel ENDPAPERS, which
"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
bookshop.org/p/books/endp...
"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
bookshop.org/p/books/endp...
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BOOTH 718 #AWP25 LAST CHANCE TO GET A COPY OF NO OFFENSE! I WILL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT! I WILL WRITE YOU A LOVE NOTE! PLZ DON’T MAKE ME CARRY THEM ALL HOME MY BACK HURTS 😢
March 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
BOOTH 718 #AWP25 LAST CHANCE TO GET A COPY OF NO OFFENSE! I WILL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT! I WILL WRITE YOU A LOVE NOTE! PLZ DON’T MAKE ME CARRY THEM ALL HOME MY BACK HURTS 😢
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Day 2 of the AWP Conference book fair at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table! Number 550! Come say hi!
March 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Day 2 of the AWP Conference book fair at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table! Number 550! Come say hi!
This evening at @skylightbooks.bsky.social, join us for a special Night of Non(Binary)Fiction event! Featuring 3 recently released trans memoirs: my CACTUS COUNTRY, Neesha Powell-Ingabire's COME BY HERE, & Jackie Domenus's NO OFFENSE! Tonight at Skylight Books 7pm, 1818 North Vermont Ave 🤍
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This evening at @skylightbooks.bsky.social, join us for a special Night of Non(Binary)Fiction event! Featuring 3 recently released trans memoirs: my CACTUS COUNTRY, Neesha Powell-Ingabire's COME BY HERE, & Jackie Domenus's NO OFFENSE! Tonight at Skylight Books 7pm, 1818 North Vermont Ave 🤍
Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...
AWP writers! Join us for this incredible queer & trans memoir offsite event on the theme of "existence as resistance" TONIGHT at Liberation Coffee House in DTLA! Feat. Jackie Domenus, KB Brookins, Krys Malcolm Belc, and Freda Epum ☺️ Register for the event (free!) here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...
March 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
AWP writers! Join us for this incredible queer & trans memoir offsite event on the theme of "existence as resistance" TONIGHT at Liberation Coffee House in DTLA! Feat. Jackie Domenus, KB Brookins, Krys Malcolm Belc, and Freda Epum ☺️ Register for the event (free!) here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...
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For #TransRightsReadathon I'd love to highlight some titles! Today CACTUS COUNTRY by @zoebossiere.bsky.social. Their gripping debut memoir is part coming of age & part unraveling of gender—set against the Arizona desert trailer park where Bossiere grew up. Get it here:
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Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir
A Boyhood Memoir
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March 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
For #TransRightsReadathon I'd love to highlight some titles! Today CACTUS COUNTRY by @zoebossiere.bsky.social. Their gripping debut memoir is part coming of age & part unraveling of gender—set against the Arizona desert trailer park where Bossiere grew up. Get it here:
bookshop.org/p/books/cact...
bookshop.org/p/books/cact...
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You don’t wanna miss this one! #AWP25 @earthtokb.bsky.social @zoebossiere.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social Save your spot now! Link for suggested fire relief donations in the event description.
RSVP to Existence as Resistance: Queer and Trans Memoir | Partiful
Join authors Krys Malcolm Belc (The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood), KB Brookins (Pretty: A Memoir), Zoë Bossiere (Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir), Jackie Domenus (No ...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
You don’t wanna miss this one! #AWP25 @earthtokb.bsky.social @zoebossiere.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social Save your spot now! Link for suggested fire relief donations in the event description.
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Just a few weeks until I get to see you all in LA!
March 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Just a few weeks until I get to see you all in LA!
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️