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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 1d

The best part of our job... sending out award nominations. Keep an eye on your inboxes. 💙

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 2d

We want to take a moment to reaffirm our values and make our stance clear. In light of ongoing attacks on DEI, we’re using this space to say: we’re not backing down.

Anodyne exists to provide a safe, cathartic space for FLINTA* creators. We’ve also included resources and ways to support each other.

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 2d

Got something spooky to write? These publishers want it. 🎃 open.substack.com/pub/anodynem...

Publishers Looking for Halloween Content

🎃 Got something spooky? These publishers want you!

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 3d

The #Disabled Writers database is an incredible resource to editors and a fantastic opportunity to writers. Have a look. 👀
www.disabledwriters.com?page_id=140

Welcome to Disabled Writers

www.disabledwriters.com

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 5d

Our bodies aren’t machines; they’re rivers, sunsets, and succulents. 🌊☀️🌱

Anodyne’s Vol.6 contributors remind us: nature lives under our skin.

Shop the full issue here: anodynemag.com/vol6

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 7d

Award season’s here! 🌟 Anodyne is nominating our contributors for the big ones: CLMP prizes + the new Monarch Awards for queer short-form work.

Visibility is critical to our mission of advocating for health equity. Which awards do you think should be on our radar this year?

#flinta #queer #litmag

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 13d

Vol.6 is full of unique bodies:

🌋 A brain that’s volcanic
🪩 A self that multiplies on a disco floor
✒️ A gut that strings itself into a ceremony

Shop the whole issue here: anodynemag.com/vol6

#poetry #litmag #queerart

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 17d

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day! 💜💖💙

Bi folks aren’t “half-and-half,” and no, we don’t have to pick a side.

To all the bisexual FLINTA* friends — we see you and we celebrate you.

#BiPride #BisexualVisibilityDay #FLINTA

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 20d

ANODYNE means many things, but never just one. 📖🩵

Traditionally: to soothe, to numb, to be “harmless.”

Our "anodyne" is LOUD, bright, unapologetic. We are a literary magazine for FLINTA* health, creativity, and resistance. 🌟

#AnodyneMagazine #FLINTA #HealthWriting #QueerArt #LitMag

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 24d

Surreal hybrids, bathroom odysseys, lipstick-stained matriarchs: Vol.6 never plays it safe.

🐙 Serge Lecomte, "Sharing"
🎾 Titi Kusumandari, "Five Meters Away"
💄 Brandice Askin, "Fragmented Matriarch"

Full pieces → anodynemag.com/vol6

#litmag #flinta #poetry #prose #queerart

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · 27d

IN VOL.6: Bodies carry faith, culture, noise.

“Altar” by Haley Olds: religion collides with desire and guilt
"Ascend/Descend” by Ping Wang: staircases illustrate belonging
“Aubade for ADHD” by Christie Beckwith: the relentless pulse of a neurodivergent mind

anodynemag.com/vol6 🩺

#FLINTA #LitMag

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 10

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. According to The Trevor Project, 39% of LGBTQ+ youth considered suicide last year; half couldn’t access care.

If you’re struggling: dial 988 (U.S.) or find global hotlines at iasp.info.  Learn more about our health-centered stories at anodynemag.com

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ouch! is open to submissions from #lgbtq writers. www.ouchcollective.com

ouch! collective

www.ouchcollective.com

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 8

@pangyrus.bsky.social opens for submission in a few days. One of their categories, "In Sickness and In Health," is a perfect fit for our readers. Put it on your list. pangyrus.submittable.com/submit

Pangyrus LitMag Submission Manager

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINESWe are open for submissions for two reading periods a year: Feb. 15 to May 15 Sept. 15 to Nov. 15WHO WE AREPangyrus is a literary magazine that is dedicated to art, ideas, and ma...

pangyrus.submittable.com

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 6

Your heating pad isn’t just a heating pad. Your pill bottle isn’t just a pill bottle. 

A creative prompt for all art forms: turn an everyday health object into something else entirely—a weapon, a cathedral, or a love poem?

Tag us w/ your response. Find inspo in Vol.6 → anodynemag.com/vol6
#prompt

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 6

@kwelijournal.bsky.social is open for submission for work from BIPOC writers who "sing the truth." Slay. #writingcommunity www.kwelijournal.org/submit

Submit — KWELI / Truth From the Diaspora's Boldest Voices

www.kwelijournal.org

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Indiana Review (out of Bloomington) is open for submission for "carefully strange" work for a nominal honorarium. We fully support this mission. #writingcommunity indianareview.iu.edu/submissions/...

Submissions

Page with information about journal submissions

indianareview.iu.edu

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 6

This anthology pays well for pieces by #trans and #intersex sex workers. #writingcommunity transactionalintercourse.carrd.co

Transactional Intercourse

A website for the anthology Transactional Intercourse.

transactionalintercourse.carrd.co

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 3

IN VOL.6:
“Misdiagnosis” by Ella Gage: gallbladder 16x normal size.
“Eye Strain” by Jonah Barnett: laser surgeries turned into cyanotype art.
“You definitely don’t have a learning disability” by Caitlin Thomson: words that hurt more than illness.

Read the full pieces → anodynemag.com/vol6

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Sep 2

This #OverdoseAwarenessDay (Aug 31), let’s get real:

Bisexual women are over 2× more likely to misuse prescription opioids than straight women. Plus, LGBTQ+ folks face substance use rates 2–3× higher.

Addiction is a public health crisis. Let’s fight stigma and demand better access to care.

Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Aug 29

The NonBinary Review by @zoeticpress.bsky.social is open for submissions. Current theme is metamorphosis. More here: www.zoeticpress.com/submit #writingcommunity

www.zoeticpress.com

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Aug 29

@hearthstories.bsky.social opens for submission in a few days. Will you be sending work this round? #writingcommunity hearthstories.org/submissions....

Hearth Stories: Submissions

Submission guidelines for Hearth Stories magazine. What to send, what not to send, when to send, where to send.

hearthstories.org

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Aug 28

@vestalreview.bsky.social is currently open for submission! They're a paying market. 😉 Check out their guidelines and get your beautiful work in: www.vestalreview.net/guidelines

Submission Guidelines — Vestal Review

www.vestalreview.net

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Aug 27

✨ New: our Super Supporter tier on Substack ($150/year).

Support Anodyne’s work advocating for health equity + get editorial critique of your ongoing work.

Join here: anodynemag.substack.com
And don’t miss Vol.6, now in print & ebook!

#LitMag #WritingCommunity

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Anodyne Magazine 🌸 Subs Closed @anodynemag.bsky.social · Aug 22

In Vol.6, our contributors write through bleeding bodies, healing botanicals, and the language of loss. ❤️‍🩹

Read their full work in Vol.6 (both print or ebook orders comes with audiobook): anodynemag.com/product/anod...

#FLINTA #litmag #poetry

Excerpt of Heather's artist's statement: "I photographed Celosia argentea var. cristata (Crested Cockscomb) grown lovingly by queer femme artist Caitlin Rose Sweet. This botanical can be used for pain relief (including menstrual cramps), inflammation, and can help relieve uterine bleeding. It also has aphrodisiac properties and is great for pollinators and soil health. To make this work, I use a scanner that I’ve converted into a high-res camera to capture the imagery. I make long exposures to allow the skylight from above to bleed in. The glitch is created from my brightly painted fingernails as I live-collage the botanicals. This results in fragmented rainbowed imagery, which allows me to reflect on our complex lived experience while celebrating the rainbowed spaces we create, that are often outside the understanding of the machine"

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