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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · 9d

Also… I need to post here more. Hi miss u love u 👋🏼👋🏼

brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats to the JAKE BOTN noms, esp @gavinopoet.bsky.social who submitted to DONT TXT UR EX last year xxx it’s a big hitter

JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 9d

You didn't think JAKE forgot about BOTN, did you?😉

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 23d

We at Flight, the only literary magazine, value free speech. That's why both editors have fired each other over insensitive remarks made in the family group chat.

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jul 26

Btw everyone is gorgeous and talented and you should go download all their books.

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · May 29

It’s that time, once again. Here’s the lineup for our 10th annual Summer Series!

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jul 25

Comin over here to to say if you have been wondering whether the birds in your backyard might be a little fruity, I have the answer for you:

All the Birds are Gay!!

🐦🌈🪶

Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social · Jul 25

ALL THE BIRDS ARE GAY!! by Brittany Thomas (@britomatic.bsky.social‬) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Mar 2

🥹💜

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Mar 1

whew all the gay mags sending their rejections on the same day after lgbtq+ history month 😭😂

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · Feb 11

A little over a week ago we got together to celebrate the launch of my debut poetry collection, Another Life!

If you missed the reading, you can catch it here on my website: www.frances-klein.com

You'll see readings by @toddedillard.bsky.social , @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and myself

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Feb 10

Queer community is regularly trading with another woman on Vinted.

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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · Feb 8

i’m going to live freely and feel deeply and flood my community with kindness and connection. we must fight in many ways, but
we cannot forget the soft ones.

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · Feb 7

Did u know that @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is open for flash fiction submissions until Saturday, February 15 at 11pm? And that if you send in a story under 1500 words, I will read it?

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

Guidelines

Please go to our Submittable site for specific category guidelines and to submit work. jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.…

jmwwblog.wordpress.com

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Feb 5

I mean I’m also in the market for a wife? 😂

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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · Feb 4

As we continue receiving subs for our REPRINTS issue, a reminder of what's coming next.

We open our charity print anthology submissions on 1st March and keep the lid up until 30th June 🦝
Stories 300 - 2500 words to the theme. Any genre.
More here: trashcatlit.com/the-bin-coll...

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Feb 3

Omg my favourite genre - GAY LETTERS!!

ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · Feb 3

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
Deadline: March 15, 2025

"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."

medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries

For six years and counting, we — Jody and Zoë — have been sending each other love notes: epistolary poems, long form emails with subject…

medium.com

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · Feb 3

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries
Deadline: March 15, 2025

"Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..."

medium.com/anomalyblog/...

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries

For six years and counting, we — Jody and Zoë — have been sending each other love notes: epistolary poems, long form emails with subject…

medium.com

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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social · Jan 27

The Creative Future Writers’ Award for underrepresented writers is open!
Theme: Wild
Deadline: 18 May
Prizes: cash, print antholgy, development support from Creative Future & read at the winners' showcase as part of the London Literature Festival 2025
www.creativefuture.org.uk/news/our-ann...

Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future

We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!

www.creativefuture.org.uk

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 27

I don’t know why I had this thought today but ‘reverse griffin’ is so pointlessly funny. Look at him! Just a little bird butt stuck to a lion head.

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · Jan 27

JURASSIC PARK x AMMONITE

Shunned by Geological Society, Mary Anning stumbles on a portal to the past—live & v v toothy dinosaurs! But is human ambition the deadliest foe of all?
Queer love, fun banter.
#2025pit

Editors, contact my agent Laura Zats!

(If you enjoy this idea, boost with a repost!)

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 27

that is not how anything grows

- Andrea Gibson

On days I have a hard time keeping warm
in my own weather, I imagine what the flower wanted to say

to the first human trying to name half of its petals love-me-nots:
No, that is not how anything grows.

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 25

Feelin a lot of big feels this week. Wishing I could write through it but the words drip out these days. Not enough for a puddle or a paragraph

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 19

Just checking in to say I made it to 36 and fuck if it hasn’t been a strange year

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 9

never not surprised at how hard moby dick slaps

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 8

Oh snap. I mean. Yeah I live in London, so it won’t be posted very far at that rate 😉

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brittany @britomatic.bsky.social · Jan 8

This is the kind of thing I see and go ‘oh I really should have used my PhD for this’ 😂
(will be picking up a copy!)

Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Jan 8

Behold! The cover & concept of and pre-order for Mostly Soldiers, a chapbook of poetry about statues & bodies (the ways we value, exalt & distort them).

U.K. readers get cheap shipping + get the book 1st, weeks before publication!

Read all about it: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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