A biannual online journal of queer writing by LGBTQIA+ writers. We publish fiction and poetry that explores the intersections of sexuality, gender, class politics, and identity.

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Born and raised in Papaioea, Lara writes poetry, procrastinates, and sometimes makes art. They’re currently working towards a museum studies degree. They’re usually found behind the desk of a community library and sometimes they like to act as well.

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Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Lara writes poetry, procrastinates, and sometimes makes art. They’re currently working towards a museum studies degree. They’re usually found behind the desk of a community library and sometimes they like to act as well.

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Born and raised in Papaioea, Lara (Ngāitai, Whakatōhea) writes poetry, procrastinates, and sometimes makes art. They’re currently working towards a museum studies degree. They’re usually found behind the desk of a community library and sometimes they like to act as well.

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mk zariel {it/its} is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and insurrectionary anarchist. it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. it can be found online at https://mkzariel.carrd.co/, creating conflictually queer-anarchic spaces, writing columns for Asymptote and the Anarchist Review of Books, and being mildly feral in the great lakes region. it is kinda gay ngl.

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Caitlin Tina Jones is a working-class autistic poet from Hengoed, South Wales. She is currently undertaking a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Her poems have featured in publications including Propel and Lucent Dreaming, among others, and have been recognised in competitions by Ilkley Literature Festival and Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Jones has written poetry reviews for the Institute of Welsh Affairs. Her work is soon to be anthologised in the Anthology of Welsh Disabled Writers.

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Caitlin Tina Jones is a working-class autistic poet from Hengoed, South Wales. She is currently undertaking a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Her poems have featured in publications including Propel and Lucent Dreaming, among others, and have been recognised in competitions by Ilkley Literature Festival and Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Her first poetry review was recently commissioned by the Institute for Welsh Affairs. Her poems are soon to be anthologised in the Anthology of Welsh Disabled Writers (Lucent Dreaming) and HE, SHE, THEY, US: Queer Poems (Pan Macmillan). She was selected by Literature Wales for their inaugural Rewriting the Protagonist course, which centred experienced disabled Welsh writers.

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This poem was published in "Issue 3: Gender" from Powders Press, and it goes into a real experience of mine that was honestly a mix of exhilarating and saddening.

To The Man Wearing The Green Shirt And Black Jeans In The Waterstone’s Café On April 8th 2022, Who I’m Pretty Sure Looked At Me More Than Once

p. 42, Issue 3. In this speculative, epistolary tale, an adult grandchild, now a grandparent, finds their own grandparent's turmeric-stained coffee mug and is flooded with formative memories of the moments and philosophies that shaped them. 

Dear Grand

A Look at My Relationship With Gender

"i love like a father does. a distant bone
the right kind of creature will slobber over"

Selected for Issue 4: Spectrum of Powders Press

mothering father thing

"i spent five hours thinking / about coming here
and god / is this a holy ground"

Selected for Issue 4: Spectrum of Powders Press

sensory overload / midnight roller rink

"Ordinarily, I would have declined. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have deigned to acknowledge her presence to begin with. This is not an ordinary night."

Published in Powders Press Issue 4: Spectrum [January 2023]

Indigo Cheese Melt

an unusually firm autumnal breeze. like darkness, sleekness, the ideal

don't let them in you say, but i have never known

who exactly you mean.

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