Ani King (they/them)
@aniking.bsky.social
Michigan writer and stuff. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI. Anti-Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night: Stories (Mason Jar Press, 2026)
— SmokeLong Submissions Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (permanently closed)
https://aniking.net
— Family Night: Stories (Mason Jar Press, 2026)
— SmokeLong Submissions Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (permanently closed)
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I’m so grateful to Hotch Potch for the Pushcart nomination, and especially to Gail for the editorial assistance! You can read Making Étouffée here in Vol 3, Issue 2.
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as a non-binary person I also find “folx” to be intensely cringe
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
I do not understand the point of “folx“ AT ALL
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
as a non-binary person I also find “folx” to be intensely cringe
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
“folks” is a perfectly good non-gendered term and you just decided to Hot Topic it to be edgy
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A reminder that we are not awarding points for sitting there quietly will your racist family spews racism and transphobia. You don't get to feel good about yourself for "not taking the bait." Step up! If you insist on eating with people who want your friends dead SHOW UP TO FIGHT. BECOME A PROBLEM.
How to eat with others
This is the last painting I did at my old studio. I left it behind. You can support my shenanigans for a mere $2/mo. This week’s question comes to us from...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A reminder that we are not awarding points for sitting there quietly will your racist family spews racism and transphobia. You don't get to feel good about yourself for "not taking the bait." Step up! If you insist on eating with people who want your friends dead SHOW UP TO FIGHT. BECOME A PROBLEM.
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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THE PUSHCART PRIZE EDITORS REMIND SMALL PRESSES THAT THE DECEMBER 1 POSTMARK FOR YOUR NOMINATIONS TO PP LI IS NEAR. PLEASE CONSULT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
THE PUSHCART PRIZE EDITORS REMIND SMALL PRESSES THAT THE DECEMBER 1 POSTMARK FOR YOUR NOMINATIONS TO PP LI IS NEAR. PLEASE CONSULT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS.
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Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Some Indigenous/First Nations science fiction, fantasy, and horror recs for your Wednesday!
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This sapphic urban fantasy that puts the punk in godpunk was such a fun read! 🎶 Hoping for a sequel @kateforrest.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This sapphic urban fantasy that puts the punk in godpunk was such a fun read! 🎶 Hoping for a sequel @kateforrest.bsky.social
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🌟We're hiring!🌟
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🌟We're hiring!🌟
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
If you're an author or creative writing teacher, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for three tutors to join our fabulous team. Visit our website to find out more and apply before 5 December: zurl.co/RItsK
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Today, PEN America introduces the Incarcerated Writers Bureau, a digital resource for professionals seeking to work with writers and journalists in US prisons. The website features a database of best practices, a submission hub, and writer profiles. Read more here: pen.org/press-releas...
New Digital Resource to Help Publishers, Journalists and Literary Agents Work Directly with Incarcerated Writers
The Prison and Justice Writing Program at PEN America launches Incarcerated Writers Bureau, a digital resource that will help make professional and creative opportunities more accessible to writers in...
pen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today, PEN America introduces the Incarcerated Writers Bureau, a digital resource for professionals seeking to work with writers and journalists in US prisons. The website features a database of best practices, a submission hub, and writer profiles. Read more here: pen.org/press-releas...
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines
🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
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Lean into me - 18x24” acrylic on recycled wood panel. Available.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Lean into me - 18x24” acrylic on recycled wood panel. Available.
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Fellas, is it gay to remember your baby in the backseat
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Fellas, is it gay to remember your baby in the backseat
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If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
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Unexpected five day weekend = fuck it, I guess I’m finishing this far future transbian technowitch novel before December! 🤘
On a related note: know any artists (preferably trans ones) who could do a pulpy, fun book cover? DM leads appreciated!
On a related note: know any artists (preferably trans ones) who could do a pulpy, fun book cover? DM leads appreciated!
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Unexpected five day weekend = fuck it, I guess I’m finishing this far future transbian technowitch novel before December! 🤘
On a related note: know any artists (preferably trans ones) who could do a pulpy, fun book cover? DM leads appreciated!
On a related note: know any artists (preferably trans ones) who could do a pulpy, fun book cover? DM leads appreciated!
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I would love more people to discover this book. Aside from being filled with a wealth of amazing stories, it features the favourite of my own *published* stories: NOT JUST THE STARS THAT THEY DEVOUR, a hallucinatory body horror tale involving ant-human hybrids and memory-devouring parasitic wasps.
A beautifully produced book, featuring magnificent Artwork The Mad Butterfly's Ball edited by Preston Grassman & Chris Kelso is a horror anthology based around creepy-crawlies from PS Publishing #BFSREview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-m...
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I would love more people to discover this book. Aside from being filled with a wealth of amazing stories, it features the favourite of my own *published* stories: NOT JUST THE STARS THAT THEY DEVOUR, a hallucinatory body horror tale involving ant-human hybrids and memory-devouring parasitic wasps.
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🚨🐸BEST MICROFICTION nominations are in!
Congrats to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Andy Lopez
Congrats to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Andy Lopez
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨🐸BEST MICROFICTION nominations are in!
Congrats to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Andy Lopez
Congrats to @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social, @ezhang77.bsky.social, Amy Allen, Celia Knapp, and Andy Lopez
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Huge thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social
and Flash Boulevard for publishing this little story about how hard it is to dig a hole for a dead body in real life. Would be eternally grateful if you'd maybe take a looksy and see if you agree.
and Flash Boulevard for publishing this little story about how hard it is to dig a hole for a dead body in real life. Would be eternally grateful if you'd maybe take a looksy and see if you agree.
BENJAMIN DREVLOW: The Art of Hole-Digging for Dummies
Flash fiction by Benjamin Drevlow The Art of Hole-Digging for Dummies On TV they always make it out like digging the hole is the easy part. Like it’s a twenty-minute in-and-out ordeal. An afterthou…
flashboulevard.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Huge thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social
and Flash Boulevard for publishing this little story about how hard it is to dig a hole for a dead body in real life. Would be eternally grateful if you'd maybe take a looksy and see if you agree.
and Flash Boulevard for publishing this little story about how hard it is to dig a hole for a dead body in real life. Would be eternally grateful if you'd maybe take a looksy and see if you agree.
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"Given the initial talent … writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, of writing and rewriting endlessly, until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible." ~ Ann Carson
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Given the initial talent … writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, of writing and rewriting endlessly, until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible." ~ Ann Carson
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Our nominations for Best Small Fictions, just logged:
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Our nominations for Best Small Fictions, just logged:
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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FOR FRANK O’HARA places us in LA’s Hammer Museum, winding us through an exhibition as well as poet Craig Cotter’s thoughts on Frank O’Hara’s life and his own. Read Craig’s poem from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoForFrank (link in bio).
For Frank O’Hara - Exposition Review
by Craig Cotter Poetry I’m in the ORANGES and SARDINES exhibit at the Hammer in one of the 4 comfy chairs (other 3 empty) with your WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, orange title, black the rest as you loved ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
FOR FRANK O’HARA places us in LA’s Hammer Museum, winding us through an exhibition as well as poet Craig Cotter’s thoughts on Frank O’Hara’s life and his own. Read Craig’s poem from our “Spring” issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoForFrank (link in bio).
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We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
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to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
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November 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2