🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Go, Davon!

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit

We do not and will never encourage writers to use AI in the drafting of creative literary work, and neither Brevity the literary magazine nor The Brevity Blog will consider work that is AI-generated or assisted.

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The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling

"The more I wrote, the more I remembered. The more I remembered, the more I returned to myself." ~ @zoebossiere.bsky.social

"We would exchange books to save our lives, to create a conversation that helped us challenge the violence of the culture around us and imagine something else [...] In a certain sense, you hold onto books as if they’re friends. And ammunition as well."

Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social

i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.

if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...

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#AWP25 haul.
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)

Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!

AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social

Happy Birthday!

Today is my birthday & #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️! I would love it if you shared my genderqueer debut novel ENDPAPERS, which

"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
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So long as they see you you're doing it right

BOOTH 718 #AWP25 LAST CHANCE TO GET A COPY OF NO OFFENSE! I WILL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT! I WILL WRITE YOU A LOVE NOTE! PLZ DON’T MAKE ME CARRY THEM ALL HOME MY BACK HURTS 😢

Day 2 of the AWP Conference book fair at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table! Number 550! Come say hi!

This evening at @skylightbooks.bsky.social, join us for a special Night of Non(Binary)Fiction event! Featuring 3 recently released trans memoirs: my CACTUS COUNTRY, Neesha Powell-Ingabire's COME BY HERE, & Jackie Domenus's NO OFFENSE! Tonight at Skylight Books 7pm, 1818 North Vermont Ave 🤍

Featuring the flash nonfiction stylings of... @mcrane12.bsky.social, @earthtokb.bsky.social, Rivka Clifton, @nicanstett.bsky.social, Scott Nelson, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, & @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social!

Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...