Zoë Bossiere

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Go, Davon!

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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@dintywmoore.bsky.social

Brevity Submission Manager Brevity publishes flash nonfiction: crisp, concise essays of 750 words or fewer. See our Submissions page for guidelines.

Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit

Does Brevity Accept AI-Generated Work? By Dinty W. Moore To be brief, as our name promises, the answer is no. Brevity, the literary magazine, does not accept work that has been produced through use of AI or encourage the use of AI in cr…

We do not and will never encourage writers to use AI in the drafting of creative literary work, and neither Brevity the literary magazine nor The Brevity Blog will consider work that is AI-generated or assisted.

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The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling

"The more I wrote, the more I remembered. The more I remembered, the more I returned to myself." ~ @zoebossiere.bsky.social

BOMB Magazine | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by Amy Gall Intimacy, gay bar politics, and our search for the communities we desire.

"We would exchange books to save our lives, to create a conversation that helped us challenge the violence of the culture around us and imagine something else [...] In a certain sense, you hold onto books as if they’re friends. And ammunition as well."

Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social

Rose Hill Farm + Oblong Books! A hand holds a sticker that says CHASING THAT SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR HIGH.

i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.

if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...

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#AWP25 haul.
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)

The Way We Never Were American Families And The Nostalgia Trap, by Stephanie Coontz, 1992

Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!

Copy of the book No Offense: A Memoir in Essays in front of the 2025 AWP sign

Five memoir authors holding copies of their books

Three nonfiction authors posing in front of Skylight Books sign

Display of various books and merch from the AWP conference

AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social

Happy Birthday!

Endpapers Check out Endpapers - It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't created anything of her own...

Today is my birthday & #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️! I would love it if you shared my genderqueer debut novel ENDPAPERS, which

"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
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So long as they see you you're doing it right

BOOTH 718 #AWP25 LAST CHANCE TO GET A COPY OF NO OFFENSE! I WILL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT! I WILL WRITE YOU A LOVE NOTE! PLZ DON’T MAKE ME CARRY THEM ALL HOME MY BACK HURTS 😢

Day 2 of the AWP Conference book fair at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table! Number 550! Come say hi!

At skylight: A night of non(binary)fiction! Friday March 28th, featuring Zoë Bossiere, Neesha Powells-Ingabire, and Jackie Domenus

This evening at @skylightbooks.bsky.social, join us for a special Night of Non(Binary)Fiction event! Featuring 3 recently released trans memoirs: my CACTUS COUNTRY, Neesha Powell-Ingabire's COME BY HERE, & Jackie Domenus's NO OFFENSE! Tonight at Skylight Books 7pm, 1818 North Vermont Ave 🤍

Featuring the flash nonfiction stylings of... @mcrane12.bsky.social, @earthtokb.bsky.social, Rivka Clifton, @nicanstett.bsky.social, Scott Nelson, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, & @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social!

Flyer in a 1980s/futuristic style. In the middle triangle the words "The Future is Transgender, hosted by KISO DTLA" Featuring the nonfiction stylings of Marisa "Mac" Crane, KB Brookins, Rick's Clifton, Nic Anstett, Scott Nelson, Melissa Faliveno, and Krys Malcolm Belc.

Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...

Existence as resistance: queer and trans memoir offsite AWP event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoë Bossiere, KB Brookins, Jackie Domenus, and Freda Epum. March 26th at 7pm, Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, 6725 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles CA

AWP writers! Join us for this incredible queer & trans memoir offsite event on the theme of "existence as resistance" TONIGHT at Liberation Coffee House in DTLA! Feat. Jackie Domenus, KB Brookins, Krys Malcolm Belc, and Freda Epum ☺️ Register for the event (free!) here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...

Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir A Boyhood Memoir

For #TransRightsReadathon I'd love to highlight some titles! Today CACTUS COUNTRY by @zoebossiere.bsky.social. Their gripping debut memoir is part coming of age & part unraveling of gender—set against the Arizona desert trailer park where Bossiere grew up. Get it here:
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RSVP to Existence as Resistance: Queer and Trans Memoir | Partiful Join authors Krys Malcolm Belc (The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood), KB Brookins (Pretty: A Memoir), Zoë Bossiere (Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir), Jackie Domenus (No ...

You don’t wanna miss this one! #AWP25 @earthtokb.bsky.social @zoebossiere.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social Save your spot now! Link for suggested fire relief donations in the event description.

A photo of the Cabazon Dinosaurs. Above it in the blue sky reads the following text: "Where To Find Me @ AWP 2025 Wednesday March 26th Lit and Leather: Celebrating Queer Defiance with Poetry and Prose 7pm-9pm @ The Eagle LA Thursday March 27th Disaster Gays & Messy Femmes 10:35am-11:50am @ Room 502B, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center Brevity Presents: “The Future Is Transgender” 5pm-7pm @ KISO Bar Downtown LA Friday March 28th Trans Horror 6pm-8pm @ Creature Comforts Brewing"

Just a few weeks until I get to see you all in LA!

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️