Honey Literary

Hey hey Hive 🍯 — submissions close tonight at 11:59 PM PST on Submittable. Boba tea parties 🧋🪩 are the best!! Get your best and brightest in ✨✨✨

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🍯 BIG HONEY CONGRATS to @asaldrake.bsky.social; Meg Cass; Molly M. Pearson; Shayla Lawz 💘🪺🌺

🍯 BIG HONEY CONGRATS to @stevenespadaw.bsky.social @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social @natanlast.bsky.social ; Noah Arhm Choi, Arumandhira Howard; Hikari Miya 🌺💐🌹

It’s time for a (belated) Big Honey Congrats to our 2024 Best of the Net nominees 💐🪺🌸

XOXO,
The Hive 🍯

(Graphics by our HBIC @dorothykchan.bsky.social)

There is something poetic in scarring the site of the umbilical cord.8 In doing so, I deny the very people whose (re)productive efforts rendered me possible, upended the dynasty whose heterosexual whiteness brought them from poverty to vermouth and price-less menus. This, and the refrain: all we want is for you, someday, to do better than us. This is why we have you. When you’re a parent, you will want the same for your children. Now my children die in the biohazard bin. My children are medical waste. My children, like all children, are not children but misplaced possibilities. I think often about the difference between “last" and “final,” the way that “last" can be Novocain for existential dread. For every Last Supper, there is a last week; for every last gasp, last-minute redemption. “Last" was recent blood, was when was your last period and is there any chance you might be pregnant? I was only the most recent of a coming-many, an Atlas to my family tree, the most recent of my bodies. "Last Girl Cavar” was bestowed upon me with pride and anxiety. In this instance, the girl is merely the promise of a woman who will make more, more, more. The girl is not an affinity but an obligation. I am not a girl but I am the final. I tell the story of a family history that will soon end. Without intending to do so, I have ended history: severing it and slowly, painfully, excreting what remains.

+ a complete family / hstry, a lyric essay in @honeyliterary.bsky.social about choosing to get a hysterectomy at age 20, being an agender / trans person and writer, and refusing to (re)produce a familial lineage.

www.honeyliterary.com/issue4/hybri...

I love @honeyliterary.bsky.social , it's been an amazing home for my work and community to be with. They took in my writing about madness and neuroses and sex and food, and I think if you have something that fits their bill, you should send it!

Our categories are stacked and we want it all 🍯 there’s a home for your work at Honey xoxo

It’s hard to think about love lately, but it's also the only thing worth thinking about. @honeyliterary.bsky.social, which centers marginalized writers & artists, is open for subs til 12/16. As Valentines Editor, I'd love to see any form of artistic expression touching on all types of love. ♥️

Thank you for letting us give it a home❣️

Valentines: “Liberated Zone, 2024, The Day Before the Chicago Police Raid” by Monica Colón — Honey Literary “It was May. Yew hedges reached with chartreuse fingers / and lilacs spun gauze shrouds.”

This poem came out a while ago but I never posted it here--thank you to the wonderful @honeyliterary.bsky.social for publishing my poem about the DePaul Gaza Solidarity Encampment 🍉 www.honeyliterary.com/issue-8/vale...

Craft Essay: “Allow Me To Speak My Palestinian Tongue” by Noor Shami — Honey Literary "Poetry is an olive tree — wisdom, fertility, prosperity — following life then death and everything in between."

HOWEVER, we have something very special for you today. A new, gorgeous craft essay in Sticky Fingers by Noor Shami titled “Allow Me To Speak My Palestinian Tongue” 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉

www.honeyliterary.com/stickyfinger...

Ok we are so back Bluesky baddies, apologies for the radio silence as we have been doing our best on the OG handles 💓

Pls pls read this thread on the thought and intention behind the next class in our workshop series by Mordecai Martin. We are so excited to learn more about the benefits of translation. Pull up! 📚❣️🍯

Hi honeys, submissions are officially open until December 15 at 11:59 PM PST🌱💌 Tell your friends! Tell your lovers! Tell your hottest enemy! We want to read it all and we can’t wait <3

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Hi hello, your fav baddie lit mag is now on this godforsaken app 🍯❤️‍🔥