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Beyond Words Literary Magazine

We consider works from all around the world, with only one condition: texts must be written in english. 

We consider previously published works. We also permit simultaneous submissions.

All submitters will receive 3 complimentary digital copies of Beyond Words Magazine.

General call

Jae Casella is an emerging genderqueer poet and photographer. They live on the coast of Maine where they enjoy date nights with their wife, strolling the shoreline with their metal detector and snapping photos. Their favorite place to be is outside. Jae's poems have appeared in Wingless Dreamer, Red Rose Thorns Journal, Bending Genres, Epistemic Literary and are forthcoming in Maine Transgender Poetry Anthology 

Their photography website is https://jaecase.viewbug.com/. Their social media handle for Instagram is JammityJam.


Third Person Bio

My name is Jae Casella. I am an elder genderqueer emerging poet and photographer living on the coast of southern Maine. My poems have appeared in Wingless Dreamer, Red Rose Thorns Journal, Bending Genres and Epistemic Literary. 

You can see my photography in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Light Journal, and on the walls of family and friends around the country.

My Instagram handle is @jammityjam. My photography website is jaecase.viewbug.com


First Person Bio

Daniel Bliss is an English professor and world-traveling poet originally from Anchorage, Alaska. His work often focuses on the honest side of rural Americana. Instead of focusing on the often-naïve aspect, I examine and ask what does it mean to be raised in places that are forgotten. 

What moments exist in these places that end up sticking with us and later defining what we attempt to escape. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Pinhole Poetry, the Bicoastal Review, League of Canadian Poets, Blood and Bourbon, BarBar, and many others. 


Daniel Bliss 

Christa Lei (they/them) grew up in Hawaii as a fat, neurodivergent, disabled, queer child of the Filipine diaspora. As an emerging writer, their work has or will appear in Breath & Shadow, Carmina, and Vast Chasm, amongst other publications. Christa continues to create equitable, sustainable futures with their spouse and two dogs in New York City. Connect with them on Instagram (@supchrista), or at christalei.me and isthiswhatyouwant.org (substack)

Christa (writer)

Christa Lei (they/them) is a queer, disabled, neurodivergent Filipine-American born in Hawaii who graduated from DePaul University with honours. They live in New York City and struggle to call themselves an emerging writer. Their work appears in Active Muse, Breath & Shadow, and Vast Chasm amongst other publications. 

Plainest Bio

Christa Lei (they/them) is a writer, death and community care worker, and patient care advocate. They grew up in Hawaii as a fat, neurodivergent, disabled, queer child of the Filipine diaspora. Their work is featured in Active Muse, Breath & Shadow, and Vast Chasm, amongst other publications. They live with their spouse and two dogs in New York City. Connect with them on Instagram (@supchrista), or at christalei.me and isthiswhatyouwant.org (substack)

New Multi Bio

Emily Benson lives in Western New York with her husband and two sons. Her work has been featured in The CryptoNaturalist podcast, Deep Wild Journal, Gastropoda, Literary Mama, Moist Poetry Journal, Paddler Press, and others. Read more at www.emilybensonpoet.com.

Stephanie holds both a Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental Music Education and an M.A. in English: Literary Study from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.  During the pursuit of her M.A., her research interests were varied, ranging from tracing the ideas presented in the poetry of Walt Whitman through the music of Bruce Springsteen to Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and cocaine addiction.  Stephanie presented a shortened, conference essay, “Self-Administered, Hypodermically, Subcutaneously, or Intravenously: Exploring the Cocaine Addiction of Sherlock Holmes,” at the Tennessee Philological Association Conference in 2010.  She is a 2018 graduate of Queens University of Charlotte and earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.  Previous works have been published in The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Smart Set, and other journals.

Professional Bio

Stephanie L. Haun holds an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Creative Nonfiction from Queens University of Charlotte. Previous works have been published in The Smart Set, Drunk Monkeys, Beyond Words, The Intima, The Centifictionist, and others. She can be found on Twitter (@shaunwriter) and Instagram/Facebook (@stephaniehaunwriter).

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This poem was selected as one of the winners of Beyond Words' "Shadow" writing contest and published in issue 45. My work here is listed under the pseudonym Nico Swanson.

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