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psst... rumor has it, you can find some planty goodies from ALOCASIA at these events!!! also, support fwp in general, because they rock!!!!! 🌿😈🌿😈🌿

FWP @ AWP '26 offsite events: Balancing Act: A Literary Circus. Weds 3/4 @ 7pm, The Club Car (12 W North Ave). in partnership with Mason Jar Press & JackLeg Press, hosted by The Workshop Prince. FRUITCAKE #8. Thurs 3/5 @ 6pm, Palm Room at The Belvedere (1 E Chase St). baltimore's quarterly queer reading series meets fwp. hosted by nat raum. buy our books! at the UBalt Booth (539–541), Thurs 3/5 from 12–3pm. take nat's workshop! at the UBalt Booth (539–541), Sat 3/7 from 11am–12pm (drop-in).

where to find your favorite independent publisher of queer literature and art at #AWP26

a reminder: real baltimoreans don't eat atlas or smoke curio!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DASHBOARD AWARD WINNERS! @mdbolsover.bsky.social, @sampadgett96.bsky.social, & Cade Smith!

THANK YOU TO THE PUBLICATIONS & NOMINATORS! @rangermagazine.bsky.social @davidabishop.bsky.social, Salt Hill, & @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social!

#poetry

Fruitcake venue change!!!

(this post has been UPDATED with a new location for FRUITCAKE)

the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."

FRUITCAKE: Baltimore's quarterly queer reading series, in collaboration with fifth wheel press especially for AWP 2026. The Palm Room at The Belvedere. March 5, 6:30pm (6:00 doors) Featuring Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, nat raum A caked-up pear is also featured

a reminder to all #AWP26 attendees: we have TWO offsites!!! each with absolutely stellar lineups! support local literature while u are in baltimore or i will secretly think you are uncool!!!!!

Kick off AWP in Baltimore with drag, burlesque, and literary performances! Hosted by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social and @jacklegpress.bsky.social Tips accepted at door for Trans Maryland. #awp #poetry #dragshow #burlesque @ezewriter.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social

i'm putting my whole everything into hosting these and have made absolutely zero plans for myself as an author of multiple books, if that tells you how good they are going to be

Join JackLeg writers @christophernelson.bsky.social @gendeguzman.bsky.social @ritamookerjee.bsky.social
+ friends from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @masonjarpress.bsky.social

& do some good to help Trans Maryland!! Tip donations at the door.

#AWP #poetry #dragshow #burlesque #LGBTQPlus

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Our Dashboard Award: Jumpstart WINNER is ...

Cade Smith's "Ode to the Strand of Hair That Got Stuck in My Gum," published by fifth wheel press & nominated by editor nat raum!

Bouncy & earnest, we found it irresistibly alive!

Read it here: fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...

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@fifthwheelpress.bsky.social has your Thursday on lock with a SERIOUS FREAKIN lineup
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anthology submissions — fifth wheel press

MOTHERBOARD. TWO WEEKS.

fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubs

Interview: L Scully in conversation with sterling-elizabeth arcadia — fifth wheel press L Scully is a living writer. They are also, first and foremost, a lover. Sterling-Elizabeth Arcadia is a disabled trans writer across genres. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers—Camd...

my first interview as interviews editor with @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is out now! w/ the poet L Scully about their book, Self-Romancing, published by
@michelletea.bsky.social / Dopamine Books. You can buy their book through the link in the interview!

and do NOT forget about fruitcake. a fun fact about fruitcake is that this is a REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENT!!!! it doesn't go away when awp leaves the city!!!

icymi my ace love poem for my partner that's also about Demonology @sfpoetry.bsky.social

the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."

you didn't REALLY think we were only throwing one offsite in our HOME CITY, did you??????

#AWP26 @masonjarpress.bsky.social @jacklegpress.bsky.social

this is a rare love poem from me to my long time partner, and I hope you all enjoy it.

Feature: one poem by Elizabeth R. McClellan — fifth wheel press Elizabeth R. McClellan is a white disabled gender/queer neurospicy demisexual lesbian poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chikshaka Yaki land. Kan work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Nightmare Maga...

new new from @popelizbet.bsky.social today

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send me something to read tonight pls & ty

LEMME AT IT!

fifth wheel press blog Submission Manager Submit to fifth wheel press blog. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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if you have:

-general work about queerness
-fun visual poetry
-a weird hermit crab essay
-a short story with characters that are gay af
-work that is *not* on theme for 'motherboard'

this is a great opportunity to submit it!

gonna be really blunt for a second and say we only opened unthemed blog submissions because we get *that many* submissions to our themed anthologies that are excellent, but have nothing to do with the anth theme.

this is coming to a close in just under 4 hours!!!

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today!! happening now!! get em in!! (reprints welcome!!)

I fucking love indie lit. I love what @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @thirtywestph.com @gameoverbooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social Autofucus and more are doing. And how they are doing it. A god damn inspiration, every single day.

hear, hear!!!

you heard that right!

i loved the additions!!!