Ava Serra

Our VIRTUAL LAUNCH of AMERICA'S FUTURE. Own it. Join us. RSVP for Zoom link at the fabulous @thewriterscenter.bsky.social writer.org/event/americ...
#writingcommunity #DC #MD #VA 📚

Coming Soon. The Future.
#bskybooks #writing #writingcommunity #booksky✍️📚

Happy Pride my dear friends! If you're in the US and attending a protest today be safe and know your rights!

Be safe, be happy, be you my darlings, and remember that none of us is alone.

Find us out at the World Pride Street Festival in DC on this Saturday and Sunday... June 7 & 8th ...we'll have copies for sale at our table!!🌈 More details at www.washingtonwriters.org Happy Pride!
#lgbtqia #lgbtquia🏳️‍🌈 #lgbtqbooks #worldpride

My novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” is out in the world today. I poured all my tenderness and childhood into this story, and I hope you find tenderness in it too✨
clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

Eric's craft is immaculate and centered around mindful breathwork as he dives into ancestry and conditioning. He often centers Korean forms and approaches them in rad multifaceted ways.

Like, read this from Tupelo Quarterly: www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/eric-...

His first book is gonna be INSANE

Cover art for the Washington Writers' Publishing House anthology "AMERICA'S FUTURE" subtitled "poetry & prose in response to tomorrow." Original art "Capital Crow" by Dana Ellyn. Cover design by Andrew S. Klein

Everything is completely fine in the States and that's what we're all writing about in this anthology, obviously. /s

Fresh out of UMD's MFA program, Eric Baker and I have poems in this upcoming anthology from the utterly necessary @wwph.bsky.social

Bummed that I can't be there with my people, but my poem will be there 👀 among other rad gay pieces 👀

Honored to have “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows” published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social on the 2025 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award Shortlist✨

Subraj Singh just won the Caribbean section of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the winning story is in Granta, you can check it out here, and you should, it's good stuff (getting that Caribbean SF/F in Granta, love it!), it's a good story!

granta.com/margots-run/

Tortoiseshell domestic short hair giving the camera the side-eye she knows it deserves

Cinna watched me post about Norrie and wouldn't stop meowing indignantly. So here's an apt photo to appease our household's registered cat god.

The cat god is now trying to stuff her paw in my mouth.

A Maine Coon/domestic medium hair mix with her arm in a puzzle toy

The Happiest Cat Alive Becomes Happier: Norrie recently discovered that she does indeed like treats

You can read my flash story here!

Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨

"Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."

@thomasriesner.bsky.social is on here--stunning, rad work 🎨

Image Credit: “Anxiety 2” by Thomas Riesner

"Elective Hysterectomy as Treatment, With Complete Notes" now out in Arkana Issue 18! (arkanamag.org/2025/04/29/e...)

"Elated" and "thrilled" are understatements. Look at the amazing art paired with the work! (“Anxiety 2” by Thomas Riesner)

Reposting because the replies are (for the most part) an absolute riot and delight 👁👁

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To be clear: I condemn anti-Semitism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and any act against humanity.

This poem encompasses frustration, fear, the power of community, and a sliver of strife in a very fraught world. If you read, thank you.

2/2

This poem came about a few years ago, responding to heavily increased police presence at a local synagogue that received a spike in bomb threats.

I'm extremely grateful to WWR for publishing this piece. Their team has been so lovely 🤍

whitewallreview.com?p=21318

1/2

Horrifying. Disappearing and targeting students with legal status over peaceful political speech is unconstitutional and a clear violation of due process and free speech.

Another blatant act of authoritarianism by the Trump Administration.

Rumeysa must be released.

...the doomsday situation has unfortunately increased and persisted

Everyone involved in this atrocity down to the individual ICE agents is a criminal and must face justice.

I wish I could post my own GIFs to BSky (the GIF is better than the pic in this case)

Cinna the tortoiseshell, perched in her hammock, mid-indignant meow.

She's meowing indignantly because:
A. No kisses for 200 seconds
B. Mom's stressed about fascism
C. She's reminding people she'd be a superior president to Trump
D. HEY did u see that leaf that looked like an unladen swallow

Please boycott my country and tell US airlines that you won’t waste money on a ticket to nowhere. Make the airlines lobby the administration to end this fascist madness. They will scream loudly when their lucrative international revenue dries up.

My debut poetry collection 'CATCH & RELEASE' is officially out in the world! I’m incredibly grateful for everyone who’s been part of this journey — your support means everything. 💙
Special thanks to Susan Kinsolving for these thoughtful words!

A Maine Coon mix sleepy on top of a cat tree

A void cat sleepy on top of a cat tree

A tortoiseshell dreaming about world domination

No thoughts, just sleepy cats 😻

Yeah this. Take the extra seconds to care about someone else

LGBQ+ means Time To sTarT breaking shiT