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Welton B. Marsland @wbmarsland.bsky.social · 7d

Very chuffed to be nominated in the Monarch Queer Literary Awards this year.

Many thanks to the fine folk at @enbylife.bsky.social 🤩

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 8d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! (For creative work we published between July 2024 and June 2025.)

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 8d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Monarch Queer Literary Awards! (For creative work we published between July 2024 and June 2025.)

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 9d

‘Before college, “that” gender crisis lay forgotten as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — it shrivelled up and suffocated.’

Read more of Maha’s poem 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' at enbylife.net

Photo of a darkened classroom with chairs and a whiteboard. A window with open blinds creates some light in the room. Black text on a transparent light yellow/beige background reads, ‘Before college, "that" gender crisis lay forgotten / as I deliberately mislabelled it and isolated it. / Inside my suitcase, I would hide my gender — / it shrivelled up and suffocated. 'My Gender Sat in Your Class' by Maha.’

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 16d

‘We went by the street of my childhood home
where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum
would make me flower crowns —
bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms’

Read more of Jack Cariad Leon’s stunning poem 'Why I Was Really Crying' at enbylife.net

A notebook page featuring a collage of various flowers, including a polaroid, stickers, and coloured sketches. Black text on a beige background reads, ‘We went by the street of my childhood home / where I used to sit in the backyard and my mum / would make me flower crowns — / bracelets and necklaces of white clover blossoms. 'Why I Was Really Crying' by Jack Cariad Leon’

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 21d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including the Genrepunk Awards! (For creative work we published between August 2024 – July 2025.) @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best!

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 22d

We’re nominating for awards this year, including Best of the Net! (For creative works we published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025). @sundresspub.bsky.social

Shout out to our amazing creatives and wishing you all the best! 🎉🌈

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 29d

David Cox is a neurodivergent poet, photographer, and educator living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. They are a spoken word poet who has performed on stages in Australia and the USA, and has been a WA finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam three times.

Photo of a blue and orange tent sitting on grass among lots of tall trees, with a lens flare creating yellow spots on a diagonal. Black text on a transparent brown background reads, “David Cox is a neurodivergent poet, photographer, and educator living on Whadjuk Noongar Country. They are a spoken word poet who has performed on stages in Australia and the USA, and has been a WA finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam three times. His passion is teaching people how the Australian political system works and hopes to one day finish the dozens of novel ideas in his head.”

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 29d

This week’s new #EnbyLife post is David Cox’s limitless, gender-messy poem ‘My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’.

Read more at enbylife.net

Photo of a blue, pink and orange sky with horizontal clouds. Black text on a transparent white background reads, “My gender is every colour of the sky / In that there is blue involved / But also so much more / My gender is like art / In the same way that you can’t define art / 'My Gender is a Campsite on an Infinite Plane’ by David Cox.”

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Sep 2

Taylor Kovach is a transgender poet residing in Riverview, Michigan. They hold an Honors Psychology BA from Michigan State University. One can peruse their work in Nonbinary Review, Lavender Review, The Globe Review, Allium, Oddball Magazine, Belt Magazine, Literary Heist, etc.

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today’s fresh offering of poetry is Taylor Kovach’s brilliant piece ‘Exposure’.

Read more at enbylife.net or head to the link in our bio.

Social media tile, featuring the image of a glitchy television screen with colourful haphazard lines in pink, purple, and green. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, :”DVR phantom limb matinee viewing in HD / Channel-chased with downcast glasses of reality. 'Exposure' by Taylor Kovach.”

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Aug 26

Abby Bland (she/they) is an award-winning Kansas City-based writer and performer whose work has appeared in a variety of publications. Her touring one-person show "Godzilla's Not a Dinosaur," is about coming out as nonbinary and won Best of Venue at the KC Fringe. abbyblandpoetry.com.

Abby Bland, Kansas City Poet & Performer

Abby Bland is a Kansas City poet and performer. A multi time finalist on the Kansas City Poetry Slam stage, her work blends spoken word poetry and comedy.

abbyblandpoetry.com

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today we’re excited to share a new poem with you — 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland. READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/08/26/a...

Social media post featuring a photo of green and pink fireworks in the dark night sky. Black text on a light green transparent background reads, “For a long time / the thing I wanted most / was to be beautiful / but now I wish / to become myself. 'A Week After I Tell You I’m Questioning My Gender' by Abby Bland.”

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manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place · Aug 15

Zoe Korte's flash pr/oem is evocative & nostalgic & deeply sensory. We love it. Find Zoe at @sundresspub.bsky.social, and their work in @newwordspress.bsky.social, @enbylife.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, and more.

manyworlds.place/issue-9/zoe-...

Acid rain is an uncut song that emeralds our matte metropolis, slippery with dirt and chlorophyll, a bright black spot on God’s sweaty palm. I can’t write music, says my other dog, before vomiting carrot greens on the hand-me-down rug. Certainty is a Happy Meal toy in a landfill, proudly assembled in the factory employing all the folks in town. If you’re here, and I’m here, who is going to feed and water the dogstar? It has gone quiet with pain, but its one remaining eye can still see faraway shapes.

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Aug 5

Rose Power (ze/zir or they/them) is a 24-year-old disabled genderqueer lesbian writing on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung land.

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Aug 5

This week’s poem is ‘The Body of the Patient’ by Rose Power: enbylife.net/2025/08/05/t...

This poem responds to to torrin a. greathouse’s ‘The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl’, and addresses the relinquishment of one’s bodily autonomy when placed under anaesthetic.

Image of a hospital bed and IV sitting atop a grassy green mountain with a cloudy grey sky. Black text on a light grey background reads: “The body of the patient lies on the table like the body of a man: without / modesty or decorum. No bra need be discarded before / the MRI machine whirs and whirs and whirs. The whir / is not novel – it is always there. The hum / of the hearse engine, the flatlining of a heart rate monitor. 'The Body of the Patient' by Rose Power.”

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you #EnbyLife!

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 28

This week we’ve published Kaia Ball’s brilliant poem ‘Encounter with the Feminine Products Bin in the Work Bathroom’.

Read more: enbylife.net/2025/07/28/e...

@kaiaballwrites.bsky.social

Photo of a public bathroom with beige and white colours and dim lighting, including several mirrors, sinks and handwash dispensers. Black text on a light brown transparent background reads, “Deposit your relics of Venus in this receptacle / Explains the simple diagram / And I realize that I arrived / Not for the first time / At the wrong altar. 'Encounter with the Feminine Products Bin in the Work Bathroom' by Kaia Ball.”

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 28

Kaia Ball (they/them) crafts fiction with a scientist’s attention, nonfiction with an artist’s panache, & poetry as a love story to life itself. Their poetry, essays & speculative fiction have been published in Electric Literature, Snowflake Magazine, New Reader Magazine, & beyond. kaia-ball.com

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 28

This week we’ve published Kaia Ball’s brilliant poem ‘Encounter with the Feminine Products Bin in the Work Bathroom’.

Read more: enbylife.net/2025/07/28/e...

@kaiaballwrites.bsky.social

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 14

E Saint Paul is a Maryland-born, Italian American writer currently working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at the California Institute of the Arts. For more of their writing, visit their Substack at callmee.substack.com.

E & | Call Me E | Substack

"I think I'm cunt, I think I'm cunt.". Click to read E &, by Call Me E, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

callmee.substack.com

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 14

💛🤍💜🖤 Happy International Non-Binary Day! 💛🤍💜🖤

Today we’re excited to publish a brand new poem — ‘Halloween’ by E Saint Paul @thewritere.bsky.social.

Read more at enbylife.net/2025/07/14/h...

A close-up Photo of a pile of colourful Dum Dums lollipops, each wrapped in bright, patterned wrappers. The lollipops are packed closely together, with white sticks protruding in different directions. Black text on a transparent purple background reads, ‘I’m drunk / on a stained / couch--sucking / a Dum-Dum / when you ask / who I am. 'Halloween' by E Saint Paul.’

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 7

Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel is a realist artist, watercolourist and pencil artist, born and raised in Ogun state Nigeria. Sholanke developed a passion for art from an early age, inspired by the rich cultural heritage of his community. His artistic style is deeply rooted in his African heritage.

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 7

This week we’re proud to publish the 'Weathering Life' series by Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel.

Check out the artworks at: enbylife.net/2025/07/07/w...

A social media collage of four watercolour portraits by artist Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel, titled 'Weathering Life'. Each portrait features a different Black subject painted in watercolour hues of purple, pink, green and blue. A transparent brown banner across the centre of the image reads: 'Weathering Life' by Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel.

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 4

Lilly Lu is an author and literary scholar living in California. Lilly’s work has appeared in venues such as Heartlines Spec, Yuzu Press, the lickety split, and GARLAND.

#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jul 4

We have new poetry on #EnbyLife Journal! Read Lilly Lu’s vivid piece ‘O to be gaysian!’

@lillyluwrites.bsky.social

💖 READ MORE: enbylife.net/2025/07/04/o...

Social media tile with an abstract artwork featuring vibrant, textured brushstrokes in neon pinks, oranges, blues, yellows, and purples. Overlaid on the left side is a pale pink text box with the following poem excerpt: ‘arms wound / around the / wondrous sounds / of tata tatata / 他她X也.’ Below the poem, in bold black text: 'O to be gaysian!' by Lilly Lu.

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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · Jun 30

Jules Kennedy’s bold, dazzling artwork ‘Bon Holiday’ is now up on #EnbyLife Journal!

Check it out at: enbylife.net/2025/06/30/b...

@jewelskidding.bsky.social

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Social media tile with a purple background, and black text on a light green background that reads: ‘Bon Holiday’ by Jules Kennedy. The featured artwork in the post is a vibrant, psychedelic digital artwork featuring a figure with brown skin and red wings. They have star-studded shoulder-length hair, and are wearing a leopard print crop top and pants, with star-patterned pink tights. Behind them is a large, stylised face outlined in neon lines. To their left is a large, roaring tiger with colourful stripes and a glowing blue heart in their mouth. The tiger holds an upside-down framed image of two heads - one with blue hair and the other with short purple hair. The background is filled with rainbow stripes, sparkles, and hearts.

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