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#Chapbook haul from #CryingHeartPress!

Kendall Bell's Wherever You Are, Daniel Wright's God's of a Former World, Nicholas Grooms' Estranged Things, Danny Ford's Overthinking the Flamingo, and Don Leach's Poetry from a (former) Non-Poet.

I'm doing an online #poetry reading in collaboration with @WoodenShoeBooks! There will be readings from my #transmasc #chapbook BOY APPARITION as well as a talkback:) Join at: woodenshoebooks.org/calendar.html

Extremely hyped for "content to suffer" to be a thing. Even if no press picks it up, at least it's something I can put out and feel good about. I believe in its poems as much as I do the collection, which is a super rare thing shared only with "61 Central." #poetry #chapbook

Day whatever the fuck it is of posting our ekphrastic pieces because I can lol

This one is based off of “hurricane lazarus”, one of my favorites from our new zine.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPwfJ_1gKQe/?igsh=eHgyYnUwbDMyNGQy

In other news, I couldn’t remember the name of my world history teacher and it bothered me so bad that I looked through emails for hours from 10+ years ago and came up with nothing but exhaustion, so I think it’s sleep time. Good afternoon and goodnight.

-Allēna

#chapbook #ekphrasticArt #ourPoetry #zine #zinester

👻✨ BOY APPARITION is alive! my #transmasc #anarchist #poetry #chapbook—full of love letters to the #BashBack tendency, insurgent #trans #boyhood, and devotions to #queer becoming—is up for preorder from Vinegar Press. support your local #chaos poet 🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥
https://www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy-apparition-by-mk-zariel

Hey everyone! I’m so excited to announce my brand new chapbook with Bottlecap Press! I’ve been working very hard on this for the past few months, and it’s finally here to share with you all!

SLT SHKR is an exploration of the memories that build the spirit, the life animating the body, and the fire inside the soul. It is a reflection of the ways we are bound to each other and a means of survival in daily fresh starts.

I’m so proud of this work, and I’m so proud to share it with you. You can purchase it today at https://bottlecap.press/products/sltsch

[ID: First image is blue crystalline book cover with white text for SLT SHKR by Carter Hemion on blue background with stars. Second image is poetry excerpt of "Last Stand" which reads: Blood pools in the sacred hourglass, / Salty sands dripping allegro con fuoco / (Consciousness fading just as quickly) / Knees knock locked in a deadly stance. / Fighting hopelessly, thighs quiver, / Last stand before worshipping dirt / (One stoned hit was all it took) / And all credit for walking was a ruse. End image description.]

#bottlecappress #amwriting #book #books #writing #smallpress #chapbook #chapbooks #independent #diy #zine #zines #bookstagram #books #poetrycommunity #poem #poems #poetrygram #poetrycollection #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #newbooks #bookclub

Blue book cover of SLT SHKR by Carter Hemion

I'm almost done with a new thing, and I'm *very* excited.

https://affairsofink.com/2025/09/04/something-new/

#poetry #chapbook #poems #poetrycommunity

I didn’t mean to get overthrown…

This piece was inspired by my poem “migraine”, which is published in full here.

-Allēna

#amwritingpoetry #chapbook #darkacademia #lgbtqwriter #poetry #queer #zine #zinester

I made another chapbook! This one is another collection of algorithmic drawings, this time based on connecting midpoints of line segments. If you provide a mailing address, I'll mail one to you!

#zine #chapbook #art #worksOnPaper #algorithmicArt #blackAndWhite

Front cover of a chapbook showing title ("Algorithmic Drawings, III") and author ("Matthew M. Conroy"). Black type on white paper.

Two facing pages of the chapbook Algorithmic Drawings, III by Matthew M. Conroy showing black line drawings on white paper.

Has anyone done #selfpublishing before? Which are your preferred platforms? I know of #GumRoad, #smashwords, #bookbaby, and others. I'm still working on the manuscript so haven't done a ton of research on the distribution platforms yet. But maybe if I describe the project it could help find a fit. It will be a #poetry book, likely a #chapbook with around a 20 to 30 page minimum. #Spiritual #socialjustice #nature themes. I might include a fraction of #humor poems if they fit the motif.

#chapbook self-portrait at forty-two

I quite enjoy doing pixel art animations, so here I join two loves, the pixels and my book, A Gun Is the Thing with Feathers, which the first episode came out at the end of last month.

It is a pre-solarpunk, beautiful dystopia with an Ace female lead and plenty more LGBTQIA+ POC peeps throughout.

It is free digitally and available in handmade chapbooks, zine style, via my Ko-fi. Links in bio. It is not on A-zon cause fuck them.

#indieauthor #zinester #chapbook #DystopianSciFi #selfpublished #lgbtAuthor #lgbtqiaauthor #AustralianAuthor #tasmanianauthor #bookstodon

Before I forget, my new chapbook comes with a companion playlist. Listen here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5PBygMEBPCBqjjg2epjpYd?si=fVM6KQ9UQVGvE4PW9UsJJA&pi=IpBFB14HS_ueH

-Allēna

#chapbook #zine #readerswanted #poetry #poet #queerpoet #playlist #mixtape #inspiration #transpoet

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g5qadbr42ljt3f2drk7lbua5/post/3lpd5it2xzk2p

#chapbook #inspiration #mixtape #playlist #poet #poetry #queerpoet #readerswanted #transpoet #zine

I told @mkzariel that I was going to make something bespoke ™️ for its #AntifascistArtandLitJam, and make something bespoke ™️ I did.

Presenting Easy To Hate Like Everything You Love. https://opensorceryy.itch.io/easy-to-hate-like-everything-you-love

-Allēna

#chapbook #poetry #queerart #transart #transpoet

This is MY #InsomniaJam2025 submission. I am a bit nervous since, in the true spirit of the game, most of it spilled out of me in about a week, late at night when I couldn’t sleep.

But here goes nothing.

https://itch.io/jam/insomnia-jam/rate/3533289

-Allēna

#poetryzine #litzine #chapbook

#chapbook #InsomniaJam2025 #litzine #poetryzine

#Poetry #Book #PoetryBook #Chapbook #Pamphlet #PoetryPamphlet #QPoetryComrades #Ecology #Conservation #Cosmology #CosmologicalEcology #SciFi #DrakeEquation #FermiParadox #SETI #UKPoetry #Extinction #DoWeHaveAFuture?

I wrote a book.

It is called "For the hypothetical aliens" and it is about our place in the universe, how we relate to nature, and what that means for us, individually.

It takes a stance somewhat centred on the dissonance between a SciFi way of looking at things vs. "realism".

It's about 40 pages of actual poetry plus the contents page, acknowledgements etc and (warning) it does contain one five page poem purporting to be about a mathematical equation...

The usual price is £5 but I am discounting them to £4 at the moment. Shipping in the UK is £1.80.

If you live elsewhere in the world we'll have to strategize because there have been problems sending pamphlets/magazines from the UK since Brexit 😢.

If you want to order one, or invite me to read from it at your poetry evening, please PM me.

Contents page of a poetry pamphlet reading:

Dedication 8
Slightly more serious dedication 8
By way of a preface… 11
A note on broken hearts 12
All about the Drake equation 14
A note on the Kardashev scale 19
This is us, speaking 21
On the search for extraterrestrial intelligence 22
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft 24
The city on the edge of whatever 25
It isn’t what they say, or even how they say it, but more about there being any they to speak at all 27
What is her mission here on earth... 28
The universe speaks to you 29
Personal space probe 33
She knows whereof she speaks… 34
We are nothing if we do not learn from this 37
On waking… 38
On man’s inhumanity to man… 40
Everything I know about humanity… 42
Let’s be clear, the book has ended 47
The shapes of things to come 48
Addendum 51
Acknowledgements 52
About the author 53

Cover of a poetry pamphlet, the title is "For the hypothetical aliens". It is orange and worn, like an old document folder, and it has some sort of security stamp declaring the contents top have been reclassified "Non sensitive"

An inside page from a poetry pamphlet showing the start of a poem:

_The universe speaks to you_

I - Water...

...flows,
but has no thought of flowing. Every droplet
of rain free
to follow its weird
find its level
bead the underside
of a leaf, the whole
nonetheless
adding up to moorland brook, burbling
here and now and in a single direction. Far downstream,
current toys with grit
does not imagine things better
if this pebble were elsewhere
but nags at it
wobbles it
urges it to move
and a mere
thousand years later
a mighty estuary deltas
one side of the continent. The stream meanwhile
is cutting a new channel
through the limestone ridge.

Each molecule is part of something larger
and doesn't know
or things it knows do not make sense. Water's
unfeeling mechanism
floods a city or builds an ecosystem
and even if the outcome of civilisation
is nothing humans comprehend
it will be that rich.

Ursula Zia‘s chapbook, Murmur Hours, is available from Bottlecap Press.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGmKE4VSS0f/?igsh=OGdzYXkwb3U4bGxy
#ShortStories, #Poetry, #MicroFiction, #PoetryBook, #ChapBook, #BottleCapPress #Bookworm, #Books, #BookLover, #BookClub #bookstodon, #bookstagram #books2025

Hello! I'm a disabled author sharing my #poetry #chapbook! I have #MCAS and for me, it caused significant neuropsychiatric symptoms before treatment so I documented my normal in poetry.

From a period of misdiagnosis and desperation,
Allergic to Sanity turns struggles into stanzas to document the everyday calamity of an unpredictable bodymind. When mast cell activation causes madness, Allergic to Sanity pulls skeletons out of the closet to examine the dislocations of reality.

https://bottlecap.press/products/allergic

I released a nifty new micro chapbook of poems I’ve been sitting on yesterday.

It’s called Bellum, the Latin word for war. It’s angry, but I’m very proud of it. It includes “my first madness”, which previously appeared here some weeks back.

Here are some samples from it.

It’s available for sale on our itch.io page, and is included in a large bundle of creations you can snag for only $10 USD that will help Emerson’s lemon of a car get fixed once and for all so we can stay mobile.

I’m very proud of it.

-Allēna

#ChaoticQueer #chapbook #emergingpoet #newchapbook #nonbinary #ourpoetry #queerart #transartist #transpoet

Devlog 2 – Almost no updates

It’s been a while since the last devlog, and the reason for that is… that I have done mostly nothing since then. Issues in the so-called “real life” started piling up and I was/am dealing with some stuff that leaves me with almost no energy after work. Hopefully, everything should be sorted in the next few months (if nothing goes wrong again), then I hope to go back to the schedule I had in […]

https://www.whateverthewindbrings.com/devlog-2-almost-no-updates/

#chapbook #decker #DesertCrossing #devlog #twine

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