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Orli Baumgart
@orli-bee.bsky.social
queer and trans uni student in aus | periodically rediscovers 1am notes app drafts | occasionally edits things to completion | chronically ill | em dash enthusiast | has cooler nails than you

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Oh my goodness this piece by @orli-bee.bsky.social in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social “Shaky breathing. Craving to feel real and then choking on it.” So exquisitely done, Orli. Stunning writing 🧡🧡🧡
turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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‘Friends I believe actually like me. Music vibrating through the house’s skeleton and into my own. The realisation that I’m able to feel things again. How it’s too much and not enough.’ 🥹💗 Such a vulnerable, heartbreaking CNF flash from @orli-bee.bsky.social

turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...
“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart
Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday PartyBy Orli Baumgart A jumble of jackets and bags strewn about my friend’s bedroom near the entryway. A staircase that stretches up to the main floor wit…
turningleafjournal.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Wonderful list piece from @orli-bee.bsky.social

Always brilliant to see a #WriteBeyondTheLightbulb piece out in the world
December 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
so thrilled to share this cnf piece that’s just been published in @turningleafjournal.bsky.social 🥹 i wrote it in @mattkendrick.bsky.social’s Glorious Words course. with Matt’s feedback, it was by far the least daunting editing process i’ve ever experienced! 😎
turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/o...
“Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday Party,” Orli Baumgart
Things I Observe at my Joint 18th Birthday PartyBy Orli Baumgart A jumble of jackets and bags strewn about my friend’s bedroom near the entryway. A staircase that stretches up to the main floor wit…
turningleafjournal.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
so so excited to have a creative nonfiction piece in this issue!! 🤩🥰
It's here! Volume 2, Issue 2 is out! As always, here are the stats. Today we're celebrating each of these contributors, as well as everyone who submitted work to us this past fall.

Check out the issue here: turningleafjournal.com/volume-2-iss...
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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WE ARE LIVE ON KICKSTARTER. This is not a drill! Oh hek, please share!!! This has been a years worth of work with more than 50 people involved in bringing this project to the world! Let's make it everything we can!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/may...
Embodied: Portraits and Stories of Queer Body and Self
A book of watercolour portraits alongside personal experiences of moving a queer body through the world.
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.

—David Lynch
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
me with this @welkinprize.bsky.social draft 🥲
why does every new poem i write feel like the best poem i've ever written, then (all too quickly) the worst poem i've ever written
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Check out our latest flash fiction, For the Young Fans Who Weren’t There in ‘82, by Sumitra Singam. 👀 📖 📆

#queerlit #indielit #80s #lgbtqia #flashfiction #fiction #literaryjournal #read #write #1980s #shortfiction
For the Young Fans Who Weren't There in '82 by Sumitra Singam — AC | DC A Journal for the Bent
Flash Fiction
www.acdclit.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Reminder for Asia-Pacific / early-morning UK writers, NEW DATES / TIMES for my upcoming workshops to hopefully suit.

5th July+6th Sep
9:00 BST / 18:00 AEST / 13:30 IST

Also, details on FUTURE workshops & WORKSHOP RECORDINGS for those who can't attend live 😁:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-workshops
WBTL Live Workshops
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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love it when a collection’s title poem lives up to the hype—like, yes you are the Titular One, the One Who Ties All the Themes Together, the One Who Is Long But Worth It, or the One Who Is Suddenly Short Hehe, the One Who Shows How Good This Title Is for the Book, the One Ring to
May 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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If there are any of you who might be interested in me putting on a second session for my summer workshops at a more Australasia / Asia / East of UK-friendly time, please let me know. I currently have 5 or 6 people interested but need about 20 to make this viable.
If you can't make these times because of GEOGRAPHY, I **might** consider an additional early morning Saturday (9-10.30 BST?) slot if enough of you are keen.

Workshop recordings will also be available to buy after I've done them live:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...
Courses | MattKendrick.co.uk
Courses and workshops run by Matt Kendrick.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Day 4: "Do a challenge for charity"

😬😬😬

In 4 weeks, I'm attempting to "scale Ben Nevis" by climbing the stairs 517 times.

Pretty sure I'll get nowhere near that number. But hopefully I'll at least get part of the way.

If you'd like to sponsor me, you can do so here: forms.gle/UfJtT7aEdWS4...
April 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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the intimacy of a word doc containing a bad draft of the poem you know you must write
March 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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So glad this tiny micro found a home in In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction. And grateful for how it gave me a second chance to find the words I wasn’t brave enough to say in the moment 💗
inshortjournal.com/karen-baumga...
Karen Baumgart
inshortjournal.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
not to brag but i’ve been a @cake-girl.bsky.social stan since the day i was born ✨ my mum is the coolest 🪼 also go read her exquisite micro !!
SECOND PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "You Say When the Rain Comes, it Will Be a Message From God" by
@cake-girl.bsky.social. Congratulations, Karen. A story full of questions, both those on the page and those that linger in the white space:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
The Welkin Writing Prize | You Say When the Rain Comes
"You Say When the Rain Comes, it Will Be a Message From God" by Karen Baumgart
www.mattkendrick.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM