@avaserra.bsky.social
Author || avaserra.com || they/she Writing poems about disorder, drivel, and dirt. And my uterus.
Workshop by Eric and in collab with discount guillotine? 😍😍😍
11.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What I told someone to expect from my workshop tomorrow: "Write. Make it weirder. Look at it. Make it weirder again."
6 spots left in "Baroque Confessionalism" & 24 spots left for those who only want to attend the panel discussion on disability and writing!
Bethesda, MD
writer.org/event/disabi...
There are 3 other workshop options, followed by a Q&A panel with all workshop readers.
I hope to see you there!
writer.org/event/disabi...
(For a better idea of baroque style, look to language like "parched Fuckhole" in "Elective Hysterectomy as Treatment" arkanamag.org/2025/04/29/e...)
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Disability Through a Literary Lens at The Writer's Center October 4, 2025
Wanna get weird in writing with me? I'm leading the Baroque Confessionalism workshop! We'll center disabled and/or neurodivergent experiences while defying ableist stigma with glorious, craft-based absurdity.
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@esdaschle.bsky.social Congrats!! So deserved
25.09.2025 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
America's Future: Poetry & Prose in Response to Tomorrow WWPH 50th Anniversary Anthology Edited by Caroline Bock & Jona Colson My face by my mom (thanks, mom) Cover art by Dana Ellyn Cover design by Andrew S. Klein
AMERICA'S FUTURE is OUT!
It's taken me too long to post about this b/c I open the book and get entranced. So, so grateful to be part of the rallying cry. Thank you thank you THANK YOU @wwph.bsky.social
www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
27.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 2280 🔁 714 💬 17 📌 0
A very AMERICAN HAIKU... part of our annual TINY POEM issues in our little lit magazine WWPH Writes. More at www.washingtonwriters.org #queerbookworms🌈 #poetry
14.08.2025 23:11 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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 👀
21.05.2025 17:56 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Honored to have “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows” published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social on the 2025 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award Shortlist✨
21.05.2025 16:18 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0Subraj 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
17.05.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You 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 🎨
29.04.2025 22:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 👁👁
20.04.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0king 👑
15.04.2025 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To 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.
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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
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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
25.03.2025 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
