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a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
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Being here for the duration & doing the dishes. Altar rails & touching up mullets. Disastrous atrophy & boba tea. Setting our fields ablaze.

beestung #25 is here!

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Floral and honey yellow background. Text that reads beestung issue #25. "They made me and dissected me and sold me for ¥68 a ticket to college girls who all come with best friends and cups of boba tea." —Yufan Lu
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Mac Wilder
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com
beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Mac Wilder sterling-elizabeth arcadia
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com
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November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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One more from the archives!

the (dead)name speaks by February Spikener from beestung for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
One Poem by February Spikener the (dead)name speaks What my girl will never see is her mother digging in the night, screaming like a horse about to be shot as she unearths my tomb. Only I am witness to my own desecration: her mother holding herself over my grave, all my ashes dried jagged in her open mouth.
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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出卖 SELL OUT by MICHAEL CHANG from beestung for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
One Poem by MICHAEL CHANG 出卖 SELL OUT i don’t wanna go back to a time where i cared abt u less slicing the roast thick like my father the roast is my father fashioning sadness into a dismal suit
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Kentucky Mentioned meme but Kentucky has been changed to beestung
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Cat Ingrid Leeches is fucking hot for a writer. I mean for anyone really. Her stomach is flat, you could do big crimes on it. Her nipples are two different sizes. I mean one is like a nickel, and one is the size of a dinner plate..."

—Cat Leeches

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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Congratulations to beestung's 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees!

C.M. Green
Christian M. Ivey
Em Roth
Jay Délise
Kelsey L. Smoot
Loren Maria Guay

Read their work at beestungmag.com
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August 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Poet wings & wormholes in the wood. A $150 emergency room copay & The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Bloody buckteeth & lizard-tongues. Slabs of muscle & slicing the roast.

beestung #24 is here!

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Flower background with honey yellow. Text that reads "beestung issue #24. i mentioned them in a poem / i compared them to cat shit -- / something i've never put in my mouth, / never let inside of me. by sterling-elizabeth arcadia."
August 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Congratulations to beestung's #BotN Best of the Net nominees in fiction and CNF for 2026!

Kat Joplin
Kit McGuire
Krys Malcolm Belc
Lizz Mangan

Read their work at beestungmag.com
beestung 2026 best of the Net fiction: Kat Joplin Kit McGuire And CNF by: Krys Malcolm Belc Lizz Mangan beestungmag.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Congratulations to beestung's #BotN Best of the Net nominees in poetry for 2026!

Ally Ang
arushi (aera) rege
Jazz Bell
t.r. San
Mandy Shunnarah
Amari Amai

Read their work at beestungmag.com
beestung, poetry, 2026 best of the Net Ally Ang arushi (aera) rege Jazz Bell t.r. San Mandy Shunnarah Amari Amai beestungmag.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"YouTube tarot readers tell me I’m self sufficient n all the astrology readers tell me I’m independent n my mom doesn’t ask for help all that much actually n my therapist says that even self sufficient ppl need to be cared for"

—Alexis Aceves Garcia

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Blue paper linocut with black ink reading "Care For Me"
August 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Pawned summers & Billy Idol. Grooves pressed to vinyl & coconut rum. Tiger eyes & boys who smell like bonfires. A knowing smirk wrapped around a cigarette.

beestung #23 is here!

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Honey yellow and floral background with the text: But the world outside kept calling, and it was a fantastic and ridiculous place. People are strange and wonderful. There are days when I think, “God, I’m so glad I chose to stay. I wish you had too.” —Kat Joplin
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Why grow old together when we can stay young forever?"

—Mads Lupold

Check out Mads' collage, and read the rest of our double issue, edited by KB Brookins, over at: beestungmag.com
A detailed collage with the cut out letters spelling out "Why grow old together when we can stay young forever"
April 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!

we'll probably only be open for another week or so!

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April 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Read some really good two-spirit and non-binary, and genderqueer writing at beestung, the magazine for that.

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digital painting of clouds in the colors of the trans flag
March 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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beestung reopens for new work on april 1st for all two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!

we're usually only open for a few days, so start getting those packets ready!

beestungmag.com/about/
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March 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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"Why grow old together when we can stay young forever?"

—Mads Lupold

Check out Mads' collage, and read the rest of our double issue, edited by KB Brookins, over at: beestungmag.com
A detailed collage with the cut out letters spelling out "Why grow old together when we can stay young forever"
March 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Happening in just over an hour! Join us at 6:30pm ET!

Email me at beestung@sundresspublications.com for the Zoom link!
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
March 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Join us TONIGHT for GAY-SCAPE FROM LA: a virtual reading with beestung and just femme & dandy (@justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social)!

Tuesday, March 25, starting at 6:30pm EST.

Email beestung@sundresspublications.com for the Zoom link.
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Announcing: GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy!

Tuesday, March 25th from 6:30-7:45pm EST.

Join us! Email beestung@sundresspublications.com for the Zoom link. 💛🖤

RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/10810...
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
March 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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"Why grow old together when we can stay young forever?"

—Mads Lupold

Check out Mads' collage, and read the rest of our double issue, edited by KB Brookins, over at www.beestungmag.com
A detailed collage with the cut out letters spelling out "Why grow old together when we can stay young forever"
March 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Friends with exes & pogi bois. Imprints of teeth & walking McCarthyism. Summer rains & data farms. Thunder thighs & a cool rock. Siri & The Brooklyn Bridge. Feathers & trains.

beestung #22, a rich double issue guest edited by KB Brookins (@earthtokb.bsky.social) is here!

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Purple flower background with yellow text field. Text reads: beestung issue #22. “How you let them make you into a monster, or a fantasy, or salvation like you weren’t an offering. Like you weren’t conjured from the people in every corner of the planet.” —Kelsey L. Smoot
February 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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"This piece was written in the style of a fill-in-the-blanks word game, and in the spirit of such games, I invited people with no knowledge of what I had written to suggest phrases that fit a category or part of speech."

—Birch Rosen

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A yellow background with white fill-in-the-blank fields, reading: "From a slimy age, I seldom knew I had been slogged in the polyamorous body. I always preferred to play with Rubik's cubes and Slip 'N Slides instead of fidget spinners. Grown-ups always called me..."
February 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Announcing: GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy (@justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social)!

Tuesday, March 25th from 6:30-7:45pm EST.

Join us! Email beestung at sundresspublications dot com for the Zoom link. 💛🖤

RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/10810...
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
February 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM