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Haley (they/them)
@talkinghyphae.bsky.social
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Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.

Read my writing at haleybosse.com
Find my writing workshop at @mycelialwriters on IG
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social · 11d
It’s COVER REVEAL DAY! 🧟‍♀️🖥️🐍

‼️Aurora Comes Online on February 24th‼️

If you ❤️ revenge horror, messy queers, the downfall of AI, video games, coding, and other nerdiness pre-order now 🪐📚

www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/auro...
The cover of Aurora Comes Online: poems by Haley Bossé. The background of the cover is a green and blue digitized photo of a human torso. The letters are bubbly and translucent like hard plastic
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hencarnell.bsky.social
I highly recommend that you pre-order this book (Out Feb 24th) by @talkinghyphae.bsky.social who is definitely *not* my partner (sarcasm).

But really, I have read this book in every iteration and it is phenomenal and I am saying that as a former English major not a proud partner.
Aurora Comes Online — Haley Bossé — Game Over Books
Aurora Comes Online is a queer self-discovery chapbook for the age of chatbot girlfriends. Haley Bossé’s poems weave together video games, early 2000’s revenge horror, coding, and sentient landscap...
www.gameoverbooks.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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liminalrj.bsky.social
Queer fantasy author seeking emerging queer artist for long-term collab 🔥

Cozy fantasy series (5-12 books). Dwarven smith, found family, forge magic, stone creature companion. Think Legends & Lattes meets Hearthstone card art.

#CommissionsOpen #FantasyArt #QueerArtist #BookCover #CozyFantasy

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January 31, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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mimulus.bsky.social
My first full-length collection of poetry, TIME TRAVEL IS EASY, came out a couple months ago. Poems on dinosaurs! Deep Time! Queer identity and embodiment! Life in the late Anthropocene! It’s pay-what-you-want for digital on Itchio, and coming soon to other sites. dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...
January 29, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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stanchion.bsky.social
Trying something fun with my 1st AWP offsite. A reading that doubles as an irl submission window. Come to Vinyl & Pages on March 4 w/ a new piece of writing to read & hand me on paper. I want to start making Issue 23! & support an incredible Black-owned shop & community space! StanchionZine.com/awp
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 AM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
It’s COVER REVEAL DAY! 🧟‍♀️🖥️🐍

‼️Aurora Comes Online on February 24th‼️

If you ❤️ revenge horror, messy queers, the downfall of AI, video games, coding, and other nerdiness pre-order now 🪐📚

www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/auro...
The cover of Aurora Comes Online: poems by Haley Bossé. The background of the cover is a green and blue digitized photo of a human torso. The letters are bubbly and translucent like hard plastic
January 29, 2026 at 11:56 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
We’re a little less than a month out from the release of my chapbook Aurora Comes Online from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social !!!

Play a gamified version of the title poem here: voidspacezine.com/aurora-comes...

@voidspacezine.bsky.social
Aurora Comes Online
“I touch myself, I dream.” – Richard Silken Haley Bossé is a non-binary poet and educator from the Pacific Northwest. Their poetry is forthcoming in the Nimrod International Journ…
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January 28, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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chiaradilello.bsky.social
Today is BOOK DAY!
Please show some love for Childless Millennial, out NOW from Game Over Books!
January 27, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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racketmn.com
People are angry, of course, about the masked bullies rampaging through our city. But people are also hungry for actions to take that are concrete, specific, and practical.
How Can Artists Show up for Minneapolis? - Racket
I held a 500-person virtual workshop on how artists can meaningfully support the work to get ICE out of Minneapolis. Here's what I learned.
racketmn.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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themassreview.bsky.social
After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...
Submissions - The Massachusetts Review Submission Guidelines Submissions
The Massachusetts Review 2025 – 2026 Submissions Period is now open.  If you have submitted to us online, please check that your spam filters do not block our email. You can add [email protected]...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
The Willamette. I have a deeply complicated relationship with the river but it is home.

If you want to read a poem about it, @petrichorlit.bsky.social published this weird one: petrichormag.com/26-haley-bos...
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
Wowww this
January 10, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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tommywyattblake.bsky.social
disasterfire/disasterstar is a book i wrote in a mixed (bipolar) episode—it’s largely about plurality. one of my best friends says it’s their favorite book, so you should pick up a copy too
kithbooks.bsky.social kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jan 10
"bugs r now craling out of the screen how cn you see anything right now WHAT ARE YOU OPENING do you feel thm on your body how they bite thru"
- tommy blake, simply existing with tabs of trauma.exe in the background

@tommywyattblake.bsky.social
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DISASTERFIRE / DISASTERSTAR tommy blake DISASTERFIRE/DISASTERSTAR has two covers because it reads front to back and back to front. both covers show the same view through bars out into smoke. on the DISASTERFIRE side, the image is grayscale while DISASTERSTAR is sepia simply existing with tabs of trauma.exe in the background tommy blake that garish glow from the keys spawns haunted inertia so will you please do something about it wen i touch technology it breaks my fingers with bright light nd viruses what are you opening bugs r now craling out of the screen how cn you see anything right now WHAT ARE YOU OPENING do you feel thm on your body how they bite thru bytes of pixelskin bc you say yur just DIDcoded you say it like a joke nd so i want to be funny too but i said do you feel them consume sonew do you hear their teeth metallicgrind t'gut the body machinewarm YOU BETTER FUCKING STOP I'M WARNING YOU mmm they masticate with spit thyr fangs twisting the skull open nd I'm hoping they don't stop there this time
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
Grieving.

Thank you @tupelopress.bsky.social for holding this.
LEAVING URGENT CARE / HALEY BOSSE For Renée Nicole Good This is for every Fleck of glitter Exploded from the pocket Of my hoodie, An unexpected birth Of yesterday's excitement, New year hatching Six days late, Almost enough To keep me At the sink for hours Washing hope From the planes of my palms And scratching Too rough Under the overhang Of my pinky nail. I could have stayed Another minute Or an hour with the water, I wouldn't have been ready To see her blood Across my screen. In poems, you almost Never see a person's Name exactly as it's called, Across a kitchen By an exasperated mother, Or written on their day of birth, Or written on a grave. In so many ways, She was living A queer dream under tyranny, Dropping her child Off at daycare, Holding her partner's hand. Renée Nicole Good. One more person We shouldn't have to march Without. Every word she scattered Into the air, Let us clutter With their closeness, Pray we'll never Wash them clean.
January 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
I’d love it if you took a minute to read my @tupelopress.bsky.social 30/30 poem draft for today!

If you’d like, you can sponsor my writing and help keep Tupelo printing for another year: tupelopress.networkforgood.com/projects/274...
Hopecore / Haley Bosse When I tell the doctor I was exposed to RSV, he puts on a mask. How I only have to search her name to rewatch Princess Diana hugging AIDS patients. Knowing that if I get sick someone will hug me. Knowing that the first time I had Covid, my partner hugged me from behind through a plastic tarp. The memory of both our masked faces seeding clouds into frigid air. The hutch of seeds sleeping in the lobby of the public library. The older man googling how to support my trans daughter in the public library. Replying All in the Zoom chat: still here!
January 8, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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angelaliu.bsky.social
“16. After your mother stopped playing, I ended up buying a ball machine instead. It’s a lot different than hitting with someone else.”

This new one in @havehashad.com by @binhdaur.bsky.social really snuck up with the gut punch. Man, I love a great list story.

www.havehashad.com/hpzt7
Things My Father Says About Tennis by Binh Do
Bounce the ball a few times on the baseline. Hold it against your racquet. Toss it high above your head. If you do everything right, you can swing your racquet up and have the ball just screaming down...
www.havehashad.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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tommywyattblake.bsky.social
hello! this is now open for preorders. $5+shipping~

digital version will be available to purchase upon pub date of 2/14/26

"read this for psychic damage" is a poetry microchapbook that consists of erasures of abusers messages

link: ko-fi.com/s/34573ec3c4
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 AM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
A line from each of my published pieces from 2025 📚🪐

Comment for links to the full versions!
A collage of lines of poetry over a photo of a nonbinary person pointing at the Grand Canyon
January 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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antiheroinchic.bsky.social
Friends, we are back and officially open for submissions today! We will be reading for our Feb issue with a deadline of Jan 30th. Please take a moment to review our guidelines as we have made some changes. We very much look forward to reading your work!

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January 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
to everyone we published in 2025 and beyond, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
the covers of fifth wheel press' 2025 publications are arranged on a graphic that reads "thanks for a great year!"
December 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
talkinghyphae.bsky.social
I have four eligible poems! First is Aurora Autofills, originally published by Spellbinder! It’s eligible in the standard category and will be in my upcoming chapbook, Aurora Comes Online (out in February from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social )

Nominate here: sfpoetry.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Aurora Autofills Imagine me Plumish Practiced Pixie Cut Pompadour Imagine me Buzz Cut Buzz Kill Blunt Hand Deep Pour Imagine me How I Alwaysneverwas— Pink, imagining Playdoh Catdog Crossword Imagine Crossdressed Primprancing Catwalk Imagine me Beaming Imagine Beamed Up Spacewagon No-man Solo Imagine me Extraterrestrial Terrastructure Imagine me Terrible Imagine Waving and Window, imagining Everywhere and Imagine Me There. Don’t Imagine Forget.
January 2, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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anmlymag.bsky.social
ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap41
ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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strangehorizons.bsky.social
Strange Horizons is still open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors!

More info about this submission window:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Submission guidelines:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

We look forward to reading your stories!
Fiction Submissions OPEN Indigenous Authors
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
✂️ CALL FOR SUBS & THEME REVEAL!✂️

Issue 8: Collage is OPEN Dec 1-Jan 31

Submitters have permission to REMIX a large selection of our Archive! buff.ly/dWZdncU

See our OFF LIMITS LIST for limitations: buff.ly/CDwSomV.

See Guidelines for RULES: buff.ly/9iwzYqR

Get inspired with de / composition!
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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the-engine-idling.bsky.social
Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!

Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.

This #Spotlight is on Haley Bosse @talkinghyphae.bsky.social!
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work.

gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
SUBMISSIONS Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...
gooseberry-pie.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM