new words {press}
@newwordspress.bsky.social
new words {press} is dedicated to the elevation of trans & gender-expansive voices. our focus is poetry, experimental poetry, & hybrid work. we publish a journal, chapbooks, books, & special projects.
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@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community.
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
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#QueerPublishing
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: new words {press} - The Broken Spine
In a lit world still groaning under the weight of gatekeepers, binary boxes, and pay-to-play submission models, new words {press} is a thunderclap of clarity.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community.
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
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Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. This was a difficult decision. 🏳️⚧️
Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. This was a difficult decision. 🏳️⚧️
October 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The post can be read in a much more user friendly way on the newwordspress.com website.
Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. This was a difficult decision. 🏳️⚧️
Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. This was a difficult decision. 🏳️⚧️
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My #poem "First Shave" has become a part of the citizen trans* {project} by @newwordspress.bsky.social
You can read it and the other pieces in the archive at the link below or at my website in my bio
www.citizentrans.com/first-shave/
#trans #poetry #writingcommunity #rebellion #protest #queer
You can read it and the other pieces in the archive at the link below or at my website in my bio
www.citizentrans.com/first-shave/
#trans #poetry #writingcommunity #rebellion #protest #queer
September 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My #poem "First Shave" has become a part of the citizen trans* {project} by @newwordspress.bsky.social
You can read it and the other pieces in the archive at the link below or at my website in my bio
www.citizentrans.com/first-shave/
#trans #poetry #writingcommunity #rebellion #protest #queer
You can read it and the other pieces in the archive at the link below or at my website in my bio
www.citizentrans.com/first-shave/
#trans #poetry #writingcommunity #rebellion #protest #queer
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today is release day for Jodi Lin’s The Tenderness of Glass. I sent out dozens and dozens of preorders this morning! Get your copy on the website and support trans* poets and new words {press}. Can’t say enough good things about this book and neither could Eileen Myles. 🩷 Help me congratulate Jodi!
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Today is release day for Jodi Lin’s The Tenderness of Glass. I sent out dozens and dozens of preorders this morning! Get your copy on the website and support trans* poets and new words {press}. Can’t say enough good things about this book and neither could Eileen Myles. 🩷 Help me congratulate Jodi!
Help you mystical beauties.
July 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Help you mystical beauties.
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I also have a recent piece out on new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social
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The Last Agraphon by Alice Fulmer | issue no 6 | new words {press}
The Last Agraphon by Alice Fulmer. new words no 6: a trans & gender-expansive poetry & hybrid journal. Buy a copy now!
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July 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I also have a recent piece out on new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social
www.newwordspress.com/issue-six-a-...
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Part memoir and part manifesto, Jodi Lin’s debut collection, The Tenderness of Glass, is a non-traditional book of narrative verse and prose poetry. Each of the book’s six parts are named after a Tibetan Buddhist Bardo.
July 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Part memoir and part manifesto, Jodi Lin’s debut collection, The Tenderness of Glass, is a non-traditional book of narrative verse and prose poetry. Each of the book’s six parts are named after a Tibetan Buddhist Bardo.
Issue 7 is officially open for submissions! newwordspress.submittable.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Issue 7 is officially open for submissions! newwordspress.submittable.com
Birch Wiley’s debut collection, Mythweaver is officially here. Those who attended the New York City Poetry Festival this past weekend were fortunate enough to purchase an advanced copy (we sold out), and the feedback has been exactly what I thought– this book is fire.
July 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Birch Wiley’s debut collection, Mythweaver is officially here. Those who attended the New York City Poetry Festival this past weekend were fortunate enough to purchase an advanced copy (we sold out), and the feedback has been exactly what I thought– this book is fire.
At last, issue 7 submissions open 7.21. Our guest readers are griffin epstein, Jory Mickelson, and Birch Wiley! We can’t wait to read your work! You can submit through Submittable next Monday (newwordspress.submittable.com)
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July 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
At last, issue 7 submissions open 7.21. Our guest readers are griffin epstein, Jory Mickelson, and Birch Wiley! We can’t wait to read your work! You can submit through Submittable next Monday (newwordspress.submittable.com)
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It is here! What better way to round out Pride month than the preorder of Birch Wiley’s masterful debut collection Mythweaver. Support trans artists! Get your copy!
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new.
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new.
June 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It is here! What better way to round out Pride month than the preorder of Birch Wiley’s masterful debut collection Mythweaver. Support trans artists! Get your copy!
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new.
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new.
TONIGHT! We’re a finalist for the @clmporg.bsky.social Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine. Would love to see familiar faces there. (zoom ceremony). Register: www.clmp.org/event/2025-f... Honored to be nominated alongside wonderful company like @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
TONIGHT! We’re a finalist for the @clmporg.bsky.social Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine. Would love to see familiar faces there. (zoom ceremony). Register: www.clmp.org/event/2025-f... Honored to be nominated alongside wonderful company like @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org
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new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social) is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut. We’ll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winner on June 26! www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...
2025 Firecracker Awards Ceremony - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
GATHERING
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June 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social) is a finalist for the Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut. We’ll be celebrating the finalists and announcing the winner on June 26! www.clmp.org/event/2025-f...
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We can’t wait to celebrate the finalists—and winner!—of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! @newwordspress.bsky.social @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org
2025 Firecracker Awards Ceremony - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
GATHERING
www.clmp.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We can’t wait to celebrate the finalists—and winner!—of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! @newwordspress.bsky.social @revelliterary.bsky.social @short-reads.org
Cover reveal for The Tenderness of Glass by Jodi Lin! Cover art by Rafael Santiago. Preorders will begin in a couple of weeks. You don’t want to miss this eclectic, engaging collection.
June 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Cover reveal for The Tenderness of Glass by Jodi Lin! Cover art by Rafael Santiago. Preorders will begin in a couple of weeks. You don’t want to miss this eclectic, engaging collection.
Awww. Thank you so much for the shout out! 🩷
@newwordspress.bsky.social is a fantastic journal!
Read Issue 6 of @newwordspress.bsky.social—a trans* and gender-expansive poetry and hybrid journal and a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut—for #PrideMonth!
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June 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Awww. Thank you so much for the shout out! 🩷
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“The Trans Agenda Is To Keep My F*cking Friends Alive” by Sol Rios. The poem was published by the @newwordspress.bsky.social.
Sol reads for the WPLS on 6/11!
#poems #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers
Sol reads for the WPLS on 6/11!
#poems #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers
June 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“The Trans Agenda Is To Keep My F*cking Friends Alive” by Sol Rios. The poem was published by the @newwordspress.bsky.social.
Sol reads for the WPLS on 6/11!
#poems #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers
Sol reads for the WPLS on 6/11!
#poems #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #writers
Birch Wiley’ Debut Book, Mythweaver,
Arriving in June! cover art by Aggie Johnson
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new. How do we make sense of the way violence, transformation, and passion impact queer selves and lives?
Arriving in June! cover art by Aggie Johnson
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new. How do we make sense of the way violence, transformation, and passion impact queer selves and lives?
June 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Birch Wiley’ Debut Book, Mythweaver,
Arriving in June! cover art by Aggie Johnson
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new. How do we make sense of the way violence, transformation, and passion impact queer selves and lives?
Arriving in June! cover art by Aggie Johnson
These poems are an act of mythweaving, meant to blend stories ancient and new. How do we make sense of the way violence, transformation, and passion impact queer selves and lives?
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Congratulations to new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social), a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! newwordspress.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Congratulations to new words (@newwordspress.bsky.social), a finalist for the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! newwordspress.com
This is a big moment for new words {press}. We are a finalist for the Best Debut Magazine!
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is a big moment for new words {press}. We are a finalist for the Best Debut Magazine!
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Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...
May 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/Best Debut! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...
So honored to be speaking on a panel at the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival. Tickets still available (zoom and in-person) as well as scholarships. The panel is What We Create for Each Other at 1:45 on Saturday, May 24th. Join us! Lots of great workshops and community.
May 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
So honored to be speaking on a panel at the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival. Tickets still available (zoom and in-person) as well as scholarships. The panel is What We Create for Each Other at 1:45 on Saturday, May 24th. Join us! Lots of great workshops and community.