"Love Letter to Queers Who Suicided," my asemic, mixed media piece is a BoTN finalist. Thank you, Sage Cigarettes #BLM - ON HIATUS and 𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖊 👻🔪✨ , @nocturnical & @sadeebee, plus all of the editors for publishing and nominating!

Our nonfiction story of the week is On Shame by Andrew Bertaina forgelitmag.com/2024/07/22/on-… (Selected by editor Rachel Wild)

Applications to the 2024 Granum Prizes close next week, #WritingCommunity! Funding from the Granum Prize & Granum Translation Prize can be used to provide a writer with the tools, time, & freedom to help ensure their success. Learn more & apply by Aug. 1: granumfoundation.org.

From the essay "The Memoirist and the Lie Detector" by Justin St. Germain, new in our summer issue. To read more, subscribe or order your copy of NER 45.2: bit.ly/NERsubscribenow

AQR EIC Ronald Spatz talks risk-taking and truth-seeking on the Great New American Essays podcast. Thank you Dan Hill, PhD "The Faces Guy" and New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) for the feature, free to listen to here: newbooksnetwork.com/alaska-quarter…

🚨 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES UPDATE 🚨 New England Review will close for fiction submissions this Friday, October 11. We will continue to accept submissions in poetry, nonfiction, and dramatic writing through November 1. We look forward to reading your work!

Open for Submissions! For nonfiction works of 15,0000 to 30,000 words. harvardreview.org/hr-chapbook-pr…

Announcing our Autumn 2024 issue, available on our website & featuring cover art by Laura Mast. Thank you for your continued support and kindness, wonder and conversation. #ecotheoreview #celebratewonder #Autumn #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #interview #review #vart #ecotheo

"But we are stalled now at the next step–which presumably would have involved sex–and have been arguing like a Victorian couple who are unfailingly polite and never dare to raise their voices." Nathan Curtis Roberts's story "Volunteers," from the AQR archives: aqreview.org/aqr-vol-38-num…

My oil painting of Wine and Cheetos

A theology journal publishing fiction by a queer agnostic? It's more likely than you think! Thank you EcoTheo Collective

This is my favorite thing today.

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So excited to have galleys of my forthcoming novel, THE IMAGINED LIFE (out 4/15/25)! If you’re interested in pre-ordering it (and pre-orders are always a big help!), the link is in the replies. ✨

Happy to have two poems in the latest issue of Chiron Review, a 'zine I have loved forever. Happy to see Darrell Epp's wonderful piece in here also! chironreview.com #publicationday, #litmag, #poetry, #poetryjournal, #poems, #thanksgiving

Very grateful for this interview in @reanideasjournal, (Re) An Ideas Journal, today. Thank you, KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ for your time and thoughtfulness in this interview. And thank you, Felice Neals and @ H.E. Fisher for the publication! bit.ly/interview-koss… Diode Editions 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #poetry

It still doesn't feel real, but I've started getting emails from the @marinerbooks marketing people, so apparently I really am going to be in Best American Short Stories 2025! Thank you Harvard Review Christina Thompson Celeste Ng

Today in Texas Monthly, Dina Gachman writes about THE SLIP, about the real gym that inspired it, and how a gay Massachusetts twentysomething with artistic aspirations (me 👋🏼) ended up there. 🥊