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Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"

"drained life through mountains only to

percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"

—Lichen

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Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"

"drained life through mountains only to

percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"

—Lichen

beestungmag.com/issue26/one-...

"...I like to be
squished
during sex
and not during sex.
Let me pluck
your eyebrows.
When we pass mile marker 35
I get hungry
for pickled okra"

—E.K. Bartlett

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coming soon if not sooner
so stay tuned if not tuner
(cover by crew MVP @chopsyn.bsky.social)

The Offing Submission Manager Thanks so much for your interest, and we look forward to reading your work. Please be familiar with the magazine and our mission before you submit.For 2026, there will be no submission fees thanks to ...

hi divas, there’s just three days left to send to the Micro department @theoffingmag.bsky.social before this reading period closes! we pay $25USD per micro. would love to see more Micro prose, but send send send! I would love to see your work in the queue, & please share with your friends! 🌊✨🌙

Black and white roses and thorns. Text reads: THORNS. Presented by ALOCASIA. Deadline: April 10th, 2026.

ALOCASIA seeks work for an upcoming themed issue, THORNS, which will examine and reflect on lived experiences of queer domestic violence and intimate partner violence through the lens of horticulture and plant life.

Published writers to receive $50.
Deadline: April 10.

Find out more: ALOCASIA.org

"...I like to be
squished
during sex
and not during sex.
Let me pluck
your eyebrows.
When we pass mile marker 35
I get hungry
for pickled okra"

—E.K. Bartlett

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"I have met people who would eat my soul right in front of me, not from spite
But because there’s a reverence in consuming a person in front of them"

—Lucy Jones

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“Taste what the tree
roots know, Bend your
back at lightning snaps.
Submit to the murmurs
of rabbit children.”

- Oisín Rowe (@orowe.bsky.social)

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30 Undergrad Literary Journals to Submit to - The Sundress Blog Are you looking to submit your latest poem, piece of fiction or nonfiction, or artwork to one of the exceptional undergraduate journals in the country? Look no further than the following list! 1. 30 North 30 North is the national undergraduate literary journal of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. 30 North publishes undergraduate poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and artwork … Continue reading 30 Undergrad Literary Journals to Submit to →

The Sundress team has helped build a list of 30 journals that exclusively undergraduate writers! If that's you, check these out! https://sundressblog.com/2026/02/23/30-undergrad-literary-journals-to-submit-to/

We can't be erased: 30 years on, the legacy of the Shinjuku Boys Beneath the flashing lights and Marlboro ads of late 20th-century Tokyo, a tiny community carves out a place for itself.

“Beneath the flashing lights and Marlboro ads of late 20th-century Tokyo, a tiny community carves out a place for itself.”

@katjoplin.bsky.social reflects on Japan’s queer scene thirty years on from a defining documentary

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If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

It's rare an author gets a review by someone who goes through and puts down their thoughts on nearly every piece. Thanks for that Bez, and thanks for the kind words :)

💛

"I have met people who would eat my soul right in front of me, not from spite
But because there’s a reverence in consuming a person in front of them"

—Lucy Jones

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SATURDAY is the FINAL DAY to submit your full-length prose manuscripts in all genres including short fiction, novellas, essays, memoir, hybrid work, and more! Submissions are free for writers of color and those who purchase a book! http://www.sundresspublications.com/submit#prose

"I’m going to go ahead and say it; my memorial is tacky.

Tacky to me. Ill-considered to those who knew me. Forgettable to passersby."

—Grey Traynor

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I love “Ugh, My Memorial” by Grey Traynor in the latest Beestung. Such a great voice, the narrator so wonderfully alive despite being “glorified mist”. beestungmag.com/issue26/one-...

"I’m going to go ahead and say it; my memorial is tacky.

Tacky to me. Ill-considered to those who knew me. Forgettable to passersby."

—Grey Traynor

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pronouncing the word invents / even more of them—stars—

New call for work: THE PLEASURE ISSUE

+ Opens May 15
+ Deadline: June 13 for everyone, for BIPOC writers: June 20

The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic

More: beestungmag.com/special-call...

"I've made love to men in the oddest of places. I’ve made love to women who snort at the term “making love.” My body echoed back at me from most of their lips."

—Sandra Alland

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Cryptograms & fried okra. Incorrect metaphors & cocktails of saliva. Guard dogs & praise songs. Worshipping you.

beestung #26 is here!

w/ Lichen Euchella, Sam Nartus-Fois, E.K. Bartlett, Lucy Jones, Sandra Alland, Grey Traynor, & robin herold

www.beestungmag.com

"I've made love to men in the oddest of places. I’ve made love to women who snort at the term “making love.” My body echoed back at me from most of their lips."

—Sandra Alland

beestungmag.com/issue26/one-...

Pink flower collage and honey yellow background. Text reads: beestung issue #26. "Yet, I am not dead. I am still here. And my organs still demand the most political of sensations. A writer wrote that writing is like inviting someone in between your spread legs. Here are my legs, spread wide." —Claire Star Finch translated by Sam Nartus-Fois

Cryptograms & fried okra. Incorrect metaphors & cocktails of saliva. Guard dogs & praise songs. Worshipping you.

beestung #26 is here!

w/ Lichen Euchella, Sam Nartus-Fois, E.K. Bartlett, Lucy Jones, Sandra Alland, Grey Traynor, & robin herold

www.beestungmag.com

"each factory runs right up until
the weather halts it. sometimes

the people are the weather."

—robin herold

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a welcome note to self on this blizzardy day ❄️

click through to read my whole poem(s) & the rest of beestung's newest sticky-sweet issue 🍯

"each factory runs right up until
the weather halts it. sometimes

the people are the weather."

—robin herold

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Writer folks: this magazine is little but mighty (much like Moonlit Getaway) and it needs your eyes and your submissions.

My friend just taught a kickass writing workshop today on this exact thing–sex writing, including the difference between the erotic, the pornographic, and the romantic. Super excited for this issue!