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Bri Gonzalez
@brigonzalez.bsky.social
author of A WELLNESS CHECK, out now w/ @gameoverbooks.bsky.social // bgwriting.org // they/them 🐀
technically it’s still may so 🐀✌️ happy mental health awareness month! here are poems from my hybrid book in celebration

AWC is about diagnosis, institutional violence, bipolar, & batman. writing this book was so instrumental in accepting my diagnosis 🩵

link in bio!
May 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I am holding it together with coffee, mild delusion, and the vague idea that something beautiful might happen to me for no reason.
May 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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oh hey i forget about this website but i have a little book out with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, shout out to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for literally everything:
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GOOD GRIEF by SG Huerta
About the book: GOOD GRIEF is a collection of flash essays about grief in all its everyday ugliness and, well, goodness. These essays grieve a writing journey marred by racism and queerphobia, a fathe...
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January 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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It's that time again. More info at the link in bio.
April 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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This @bobsykora.bsky.social poem from Utopians in Love made me go "goddamnit Bob" out loud
May 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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My debut collection TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE is coming October from Stillhouse Press! I put my whole heart into this book, and it’ll be out in autumn: just the season for fortune telling, scary story swapping, strange skin wearing, and pinky promising…
February 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Coming soon 🎧
May 31, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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ICE raided a popular restaurant in a San Diego neighborhood. About 3 dozen agents, some in full tactical gear, arrested restaurant workers while patrons were enjoying dinner. The ICE agents didn't expect a resounding rejection by neighbors & patrons. The community spontaneously protested.
May 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Morning.
Barn Swallow, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1869.
May 31, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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It’s been one month since the release of my debut collection, THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who ordered it. And if you haven’t, this could still be you!
May 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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10am. 1st June. Our first anniversary subs open 🦝
No theme for this one - just a strong story with a great voice. Make us feel something. Make it linger.
Any genre.
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May 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Hey, want to support wildlife rescue? Monies from the VanderMeer Creative Threadless shop go to that worthy cause. Southern Reach designs, too! vandermeercreative.threadless.com
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May 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
aight giving this app a whirl again 🧍 i’ll start w/ an offering, aka my newest fixation (sleep token), & if you’ve listened to the new album…. pls hmu
May 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Kicking off our new year of short fiction, we're pleased to share "More of You" by Anjali Ravi necessaryfiction.com/stories/more...
January 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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pssst all @gameoverbooks.bsky.social current titles 51% off today only with the code "HELLYEAH" at checkout:

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Game Over Books
Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Your new favorite publisher: Game Over Books.
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November 30, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Looking for another great indie press deal? @gameoverbooks.bsky.social books are 51% off at checkout today if you put in code "hellyeah," meaning you can likely get my chapbook w/ shipping for under $13!!!

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Woman as Communion — Megan McDermott — Game Over Books
Woman as Communion  is a chapbook that reckons with, but is not resigned to, the patriarchal past and present of the poet’s Christian faith. Through poems that inhabit the experiences of both bib...
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November 30, 2024 at 8:42 PM
@gameoverbooks.bsky.social’s titles are 51% off today w/ code hellyeah at checkout 👀👀 meaning you can get my little rat book at a very very good price!

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A Wellness Check — Bri Gonzalez — Game Over Books
There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors. Bri Gonzalez’s debu...
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December 1, 2024 at 1:46 AM
today’s mood: behind-the-scenes emmett cullen holding a bag of eggs he can’t eat, right next to a counseling poster. we call this surviving not thriving
November 22, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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this is huge. THE CALLS WORKED
H.R. 9494, the attack on non-profits bill, has passed the house.

But it went from being supported by 52 Dems to just 15.

Time to get on your Senator's case and halt the bill there.
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
check it out!! & check out SG’s substack—it’s abundant w/ community, resistance, queer power. honored to be interviewed by them 🩵
I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:
a conversation with Bri Gonzalez, author of A Wellness Check
queer poetics! bipolar poetics! Chicanx poetics! pop-culture poetics! so many exclamation marks!
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November 21, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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I interviewed @brigonzalez.bsky.social about their incredible collection A WELLNESS CHECK for trans poetica. truly a must-read for anyone interested in Chicanx bipolar poetics and pop culture infused writing:
a conversation with Bri Gonzalez, author of A Wellness Check
queer poetics! bipolar poetics! Chicanx poetics! pop-culture poetics! so many exclamation marks!
open.substack.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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I'll be there:
November 18, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Recently published by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 12:34 AM
also… baby’s first fiction publication? 🫣 grateful to have this flash piece in issue 31 of four way review!
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November 15, 2024 at 11:26 PM
two new poems out in cuéntame lit w/ my fave issuemate @sgpoet.bsky.social ❤️❤️ go support this new latinx run magazine! the whole issue is a banger: cuentameliterary.com/2024/11/15/d...
Duolingo Foundations 3, Section 4: Trailblazer & Other Poem | Cuéntame Literary
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November 15, 2024 at 11:23 PM