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@sadboyslowjams.bsky.social

writer, co-editor of Taco Bell Quarterly, artist Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ kolcow.neocities.com

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The first print issue of tbq

The first print issue of tbq

A flyer for the 13th annual rock and roll reading

A flyer for the 13th annual rock and roll reading

A description of a panel at AWP

A description of a panel at AWP

AWP repost, find us @ T704 hanging out w/ Bullshit Lit! $5 copies of a special print issue while they last, I'm on a panel Friday if you're into that kind of freaky shit, AND if you're around early tomorrow, I'm going to tell you exactly what's wrong with me at Metro Baltimore.

04.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Get this magnificent book:

04.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman Check out The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - <p><b>A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.</b></p><p> When Wilco's 2007 album <i>Sky Blue Sky</i> was infamously critic...

Instead of hate reading some nonsense essay about gender by some very hateable fella, you could read my book full of essays that are also about gender, and labour, and death, and addiction, and music, but in a much more curious and much more fun way

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

03.03.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Donate to Standing with Nurul Amin’s Family in Buffalo, organized by Fatimah Shah Alam SUPPORT THE FAMILY OF NURUL AMIN SHAH ALAM GOAL: To raise as much … Fatimah Shah Alam needs your support for Standing with Nurul Amin’s Family in Buffalo

I haven't seen this circulating on Bluesky yet- vetted GoFundMe for the family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the Rohingya refugee who was killed by CBP and state violence in Buffalo. Funds will help with immediate expenses and to reunite with their sons. Donate and share.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...

28.02.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

I'll be giving @governor.ny.gov a call tomorrow to ask what she'll be doing to bring the Border Patrol murderers of Nurul Shah Alam to justice and if you live in New York I suggest you do too. If it can happen to him it can happen to any of us. 518-474-8390

27.02.2026 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

if you've been sleeping on SG Huerta sleep no more. Order Burns!

27.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
TBQ in print available for five bucks at AWP

TBQ in print available for five bucks at AWP

AWP people, find us at table T704 next week! We'll have copies of the first ever print issue of TBQ. (A sampler of some of our best!) 5 bucks, 50 pages, glossy, full color and it has a poem in the shape of beating Henry Kissinger to death! Guaranteed to be collectible after the cease and desist!

25.02.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 305    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
Bio for Felix

Bio for Felix

Live mΓ‘s not bomb mΓ‘s

25.02.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
magazines that say: Taco Bell Quarterly: The World's most prestigious literary magazine. as seen in the library of congress. image of a bell among flames, featuring poem in the shape of the poet beating henry kissinger to death with their bare hands, hobbling towards living mΓ‘s: detangling crip identity and labor, she was fine two weeks before, and four endings to a grindr romance. March 2026 special issue

magazines that say: Taco Bell Quarterly: The World's most prestigious literary magazine. as seen in the library of congress. image of a bell among flames, featuring poem in the shape of the poet beating henry kissinger to death with their bare hands, hobbling towards living mΓ‘s: detangling crip identity and labor, she was fine two weeks before, and four endings to a grindr romance. March 2026 special issue

my babies are hot off the press. I designed this mag with a loving eye. If you're at AWP next week come snag your copy. For $5 it's cheaper than Taco Bell

25.02.2026 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that ANYBODY can nominate a work for the Le Guin Prize.

Not only can you nominate your favorite books of last year. You SHOULD.

25.02.2026 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Evening House Books Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.

Friendly reminder I got laid off recently & want the bookstore to be my main job alongside Amanda. Spent the last week brainstorming how to make it happen.

Some cool things you could do to help:
-Buy books at @eveninghouse.bsky.social, in-person or online
-buy Boxcutters or Feast
-hype either

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24.02.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Go Press Girl! - Vivian's Ghost Originally serialized online from 2022-2023, Vivian's Ghost follows the intersecting lives of three transmasc teens, Collin, Vivian, and Andrew, and how the aftermath of their friendship haunts them y...

www.gopressgirl.ink/vivians-ghost if you hate anti trans journalists may i recommend my comic where one meets a ghost and suffers

24.02.2026 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

happiest of birthdays to ya

23.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Silk and Foxglove anthology, a BIPOC erotic eco-horror anthology, with a collaged artwork of a red circle, a dragonfly, and a sensual rear end!

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home!

"Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell!

Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

23.02.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

Fruitcake venue change!!!

21.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Awp panel that you need to come to if you have $700 and are hanging around the Baltimore Convention center

Awp panel that you need to come to if you have $700 and are hanging around the Baltimore Convention center

LET'S TALK VOICE. See you at AWP?

21.02.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I 'll be at AWP, doing Fruitcake on the 5th and the Troublemaker Firestarter reading on the 7th and the bookfair every day.

20.02.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They suck shit

06.09.2024 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

yeah. my personal folder is full of junk tho because I get tired of sorting

20.02.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

heard that a longtime TBQ hater had some career wins and genuinely feeling glad for them because everyday writers aren't my enemy whether they like my projects or not.

20.02.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AWP pricing activated on our website. What was $24 is on sale for $20, what $18 on sale for $15. Why not get on there and order, I don’t know, 50-100 books?

18.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job

Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

16.02.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5414    πŸ” 955    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 27

You are strong. You are beautiful. You are absolutely insane.

15.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 327    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 10
The Doll House

very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

www.thedollhouse.studio

13.02.2026 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 232    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 9

Submissions open Thursday, Feb 12, 10–11am ET (for a full hour!) 🧨 πŸŽ†

Open to all genres, 800 words max, one piece only.
Gotta be one or the other of these, ideally both:
* about magic and beauty and wonder
* speculative/fantastical/absurdist autofiction

www.havehashad.com/hadposts/tac...

10.02.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

really dug these excerpts and the accompanying call is great, I'm looking forward to what people write for this!

10.02.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fucker Bowl

09.02.2026 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5383    πŸ” 804    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 14
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Coming March 6th, 2026, LOVE THAT FOR US by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) and Sam Herschel Wein (@samforbreakfast.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order!!

www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/love...

07.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

what the hell have I been doing these last 7 years

07.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0