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Foglifter Press & Journal
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San Francisco based LGBTQ+ journal and press—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives. 🌈 🌉
https://linktr.ee/foglifter
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Are you a student in the Bay Area interested in publishing, promotion, or communications? 💫

Foglifter is seeking a Community Intern who will gain valuable experience in social media marketing, graphic design, and digital content accessibility.

More information at 🔗 foglifter.submittable.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize Winner Eduardo Martínez-Leyva! 🎉

We're overjoyed that Eduardo's poem "Mordida" (Foglifter 9.2) was included in "Pushcart Prize L: Best of the Small Presses" (2026) which hits bookstores next Tuesday.
Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize Winner Eduardo Martinez-Leyva for "Mordida" (9.2).
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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💕 Now through December 7, you can vote for up to five literary magazines for Chill Subs Community Favorites Best Literary Magazine Awards. We hope you'll include us in your favs! Link is in our bio. 💕

🔗 chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag-awards
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November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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🌵 🤠 Saddle up! Issue 10.2 is on its way! Check out for our first round of poetry sneak peeks!

💝Special thanks to our amazing poetry editors for bringing these gems to Issue 10.2: Summer Farah (Guest Editor), Rob Macaisa Colgate, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, and Charlie Neer.
Cover of Foglifter Journal featuring two male cowboys embracing, wearing blue jean jackets, pink scarves, and white cowboys hats. Text reads, "Poetry Sneak Peeks from Volume 10, Issue 2." Art by Anthony Hurd.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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We enjoyed some unforgettable sets from Marquis the Honey Bear, Dylan McKeever, Ashley Monique, Nola Bradley, Andre Margatini, and Wonder Dave--with Baruch Porras Hernandez as our host! Thank you to everyone who showed up, laughed loud, and celebrated our 10th anniversary in true Foglifter style! 🌈
Group photo of performers from Foglifter Queer Comedy Fundraiser, including Baruch Porras Hernandez, Marquis the Honey Bear, Dylan McKeever, Ashley Monique, Nola Bradley, Andre Margatini, and Wonder Dave.
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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One thing’s no joke: funding for the arts across the US has taken a massive hit. That’s why we have partnered with Bay Area queer and trans comedians for a night of laughter and community, all in support of publishing bold queer and trans literature. Get your tickets now! 🔗 tinyurl.com/queer-comedy
Foglifter Queer Comedy Fundraiser. Sunday, November 16. 7pm at the Stud.
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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🎉Announcing Foglifter's 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees! 🎉

Congratulations to all the nominees, and thank you for making Foglifter a home for your work!
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November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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happy pub day to TERRY DACTYL by @mbsycamore.bsky.social! 🎉(and s/o to @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 🎉)

Mattilda was interviewed by @todd-milo.bsky.social for the Foglifter blog:

🔗 www.foglifterjournal.com/terry-dactyl...
The text says, "INTERVIEWS| Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on connection, emotion, and survival with Milo Todd," The book cover is in the center. The text says, "I'm always writing toward vulnerability and toward emotion. I always want that to be coming through. For me, it maintains that intimacy, right? . . . The book is structured, in a sense, by how emotion for her is grounding. It allows her…not really to escape, but it's a way of experiencing everything at once." –Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, in conversation with Milo Todd]
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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We have reached our submission cap for POETRY for issue 11.1 ✨THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED✨ Submissions for hybrid/non-fiction remain open for one more day💐🌈🤍 🥰
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November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: QUEER COMEDY FUNDRAISER. Hosted by none other than @baruchporrashernandez.

📍THE STUD
🗓️ Sunday, NOVEMBER 16, from 7-9pm| Doors at 6:15pm

There will be comedy, there will be queer and trans fabulousness, and you will get to support your favorite magazine.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Mark your calendars for our QUEER COMEDY FUNDRAISER. Hosted by none other than Baruch Porras Hernandez .

📍THE STUD (@studsf)
🗓️ Sunday, NOVEMBER 16, from 7-9pm| Doors at 6:15pm

Tickets available on a sliding scale at www.eventbrite.com/e/foglifter-...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"What we create are the counter narratives to what they will say about this time in history. They’re already trying to rewrite and erase in real time..." — Taylor Byas interviewed by Margot Douaihy for the Foglifter blog about RESTING BITCH FACE, (Soft Skull Press, 2025) ! 💖 <3
Background for all slides is a simple green, and the text is written in black and orange. Orange Foglifter logo is on top left. 1 - The text says, "INTERVIEWS| Taylor Byas talks ars poetica and the importance of creating art in this point in history with Margot Douaihy." The book cover is in the center. The text says, "What we create are the counter narratives to what they will say about this time in history. They’re already trying to rewrite and erase in real time. Not only is this work important, but it’s necessary because it's the part that will help tell the full and true story –TAYLOR BYAS, in conversation with Margot Douaihy." The text says, “These poems stare at you and invite you to stare back. They dare you to look again. And you will. You’ll look again. And again and again.4. - The text says, " Paul T. Klein is a film scholar and cultural historian specializing in the material cultures of American film exhibition. His research and writing maps the cultural, technological, historical, and political contexts that make movies matter. He holds an MA in Literature, Culture, and Technology from American University, and is a Rackham Merit Fellow in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. Follow him on Bluesky and Letterboxd and read more at www.howtoreadmovies.com. –Margot Douaihy on TAYLOR BYAs’ RESTING BITCH FACE”. . Headshot top left “Taylor Byas”. Headshot bottom right “Margot Douaihy”.
October 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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We have reached our submission cap for FICTION for issue 11.1 ✨THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUBMITTED✨ Submissions for poetry and hybrid/non-fiction remain open💐🌈🤍 🥰

submission 🔗 in the bio.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Yesterday, @lambdaliterary announced the winners of the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 🌈 🏆🎉

With eleven former Foglifter contributors nominated across seven categories, we're OVERJOYED that FOUR of those contributors have been selected as winners. Congratulations, y'all!

#Lammys2025
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October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Grayson Thompson on gators, geography, and his new release A CONGREGATION OF ALLIGATORS with @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social on the Foglifter blog 🐊

🔗 foglifterjournal.com/grayson-thompson-interview
September 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Hey SF, come here me read some new work at The Stud on 10/16 with @foglifterpress.bsky.social
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Foglifter is celebrating ten years of groundbreaking queer and trans writing at @litquake.org and we hope to see you there! 🎉🌈

📅 Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 7-9 PM | Doors open at 6 PM
📍The Stud @ 1123 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
🎟️ Register here: buff.ly/N5t9VBE
September 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Foglifter is celebrating ten years of groundbreaking queer and trans writing at @litquake.org and we hope to see you there! 🎉🌈

📅 Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 7-9 PM | Doors open at 6 PM
📍The Stud @ 1123 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
🎟️ Register here: buff.ly/N5t9VBE
September 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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We'll be joining our other small press friends at @litquake.org's newly revived Book Fair in Yerba Buena Gardens this weekend! We hope to see you there.

📅 Sunday September 28, 2025 from 11:00am - 4:00pm
📍Yerba Buena Gardens (761 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
📍 litquake2025.sched.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Next Friday: Writers With Drinks returns to San Francisco! It's your chance to hear some incredible queer and trans writers.

Caro de Robertis
Michal "MJ" Jones
Frida Sierra
Annalee Newitz
Charlie Jane Anders
Renée Swindle

7 PM at Strut, 470 Castro. FREE, donation requested. Masks required 😷😻
A flier with a tumbler of wine in a hand, plus a hand holding an open book that says "with the best writers in the Bay area!". Text says: Writers With Drinks: A Literary Variety Show. Caro de Robertis (So Many Stars) Michal "MJ" Jones (Hood Vacations) Frida Sierra (Santa Cruz Comedy Festival) Annalee Newitz (Automatic Noodle) Charlie Jane Anders (Lessons in Magic and Disaster) Renée Swindle (Francine's Spectacular Crash & Burn) Friday, September 19 7 to 9 PM Strut/Magnet, 470 Castro St.
September 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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🍃 It's the season for submissions, and Foglifter has several opportunities open for your literary work🍃

foglifter.submittable.com/submit

📌 Foglifter Online Exclusive Issue 1.1 (Aug 15 - Oct 15)
📌 Foglifter Journal Print Issue 11.1 (Sept 1 - Nov 1)
📌 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize (Sept 1 - Dec 1)
September 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Foglifter is officially open for submissions for Issue 11.1! Calling all #queer and #trans writers to send us their most transgressive, tender, and imaginative work. ✨⁠⁠🌈⁠

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Foglifter Issue 11.1. Call for General Submissions! September 1 - November 1. foglifter.submittable.com/submit. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Hybrid. Drama.
September 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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📣 Calling all QTBIPOC+ poets in the greater Bay Area*📣

Submissions for the Start a Riot! chapbook prize open on September 1!

⭐winner receives: publication, $3000, and $1000 for book tour⭐

more info here on Sept 1:
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Winner receives publication + $3000 + $1000 for tour. Start a Riot! call for poetry manuscripts from greater Bay Area QTBIPOC+ literary artists who have not yet published a full-length poetry collection. September 1 - December 1. foglifter.submittable.com/submit Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize. In response to rapid gentrification and displacement of QTBIPOC+ literary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in celebration of these communities' revolutionary history, Foglifter Press and Still Here San Francisco joined forces to create a poetry chapbook prize for local emerging queer and trans Black writers, indigenous writers, and writers of color. Each year, one poetry chapbook author is awarded publication, a $3000 prize, and $1000 to support their book tour/promotion.
August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"John Birdsall’s new book "What is Queer Food?" illuminates another under examined avenue that brings queer communities together: the simple art of making delicious food."

A conversation with @johnbirdsall.bsky.social and @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social:

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What is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall author of The Man Who Ate Too Much. Cover includes illustrations of vibrant cakes.
August 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"The world is so precarious right now it feels hard to want—so much of what we want isn’t allowed...And I think the lack of want is akin to our loss of intimacy. We are reliant upon desire, but it’s also terrifying to want."

Nini Berndt in conversation with Jules Fitz Gerald"
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"There Are Reasons For This" A novel by Nini Berndt. red abstract background with yellow text.
August 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Hello friends! What are you reading this week? 👀
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August 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM