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Therese Estacion’s PHANTOMPAINS (@bookhugpress) is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list: These poems inspired by Filipino horror and folktales explore “disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.” bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poe…
“One of the first things I remember is being carried on my mom’s hip from our house to our neighbors’, where their high-school-aged son was playing music...” Read Hannah Soyer’s essay “Chair/Body/Home” in @thesunmagazine for #DisabilityPrideMonth: thesunmagazine.org/articles/21386…
Any of these names ring a bell? CLMP's reading list for Disability Pride Month features several Sundress titles and poems from beestung! clmp.org/news/a-reading…
CLMP is offering a new series on exploring AI and its impact, ethics, and more on independent publishers. clmp.org/news/ai-101-un…
#SummerReading alert: the short story collection THE WORLD WITH ITS MOUTH OPEN by Zahid Rafiq (@Tin_House) is a finalist for the #FirecrackerAward in Fiction! tinhouse.com/book/the-world…
It takes me a moment to realize that the doctor thinks dolor is pronounced like dollar, piece together that his thick mouth isn’t asking me for money but assuring... Read “Preventative Measures, 1949” by Jess Silfa in @beestungmag! #DisabilityPrideMonth beestungmag.com/issue16/one-po…
At the Premier Grand Prix de Rome, you played the piano and fell from exhaustion. But next year you lived and won. Read Alex J. Robinson’s “Nocturne 1911” in @dipitylitmag for #DisabilityPrideMonth: dipitylitmag.com/post/3-poems-b…
Submit your poetry, prose, and visual art to The Fool’s World, a travel literary magazine! Submissions are free and open through July 31: clmp.org/members/open-s…
Tarik Dobbs’s poetry collection “explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9/11 America.” NAZAR BOY, published by @haymarketbooks, is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: haymarketbooks.org/books/2217-naz…
.@thedodgemag seeks poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, and works in translation as well as craft and teaching materials for a special issue titled Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land! Learn more about the theme, and submit by July 31: clmp.org/members/open-s…
Relapse is familiar as ink at my distal phalanx in the daily drama of the body. Viral loads spilling out over the edges of me... — “Crip time-loop pantoum” by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, in @GeorgiaReview & on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list: thegeorgiareview.com/posts/crip-tim…
Read WILDFLOWER from @_luckyjefferson for #DisabilityPrideMonth! This digital issue celebrating eight autistic BIPOC writers features writing by J. D. Harlock, Shel Moring, Greta McGee, and more: luckyjefferson.com/wildflower/
.@BarelySouthR’s summer Creative Nonfiction Writing Contest closes on July 31! Selected this year by guest judge Annabelle Tometich, the winner will receive $300 and publication: clmp.org/members/open-s…
In MY LOVE IS WATER, Rob Macaisa Colgate “writes in rigorous and experimental verse to upend our understandings of desire, race, disability, and care.” Read a poetry collection from @uglyducklingprs this #DisabilityPrideMonth! uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/m…
The New Constructions Hybrid Book Contest at Wet Cement Press is open through July 31! This contest “seeks to expand the language and spirit of hybrid forms.” Learn more about the manuscripts the editors seek: clmp.org/members/open-s…
Read Glorious Defiance from @Sinister_Wisdom this #DisabilityPrideMonth! Edited by Valerie Wetlaufer, this issue features a selection of creative works from disabled lesbian writers, including Petra Kuppers, Batya Rossberg, Erin Russell, and more: sinisterwisdom.org/SW125
Have you read Don Mee Choi’s MIRROR NATION yet? This poetry collection from Wave Books received the 2025 #FirecrackerAward in Poetry and is a vital addition to any #SummerReading list: wavepoetry.com/products/mirro…
The Yugen Quest Review seeks poems, book reviews, short stories, and essays! Submissions are free and close on July 30: clmp.org/members/open-s…
Thank you, Gabe, for wheeling my rebellious body amidst travelers scurrying… — “Ambulatory Wheelchair User” by Rita Maria Martinez, featured in West Trestle Review & on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list: westtrestlereview.com/rita_maria_mar…
Ashanti Anderson’s BLACK UNDER “layers outward perception with internal truth to offer an almost-telescopic examination of the redundancies—and incongruences—of marginalization.” Poetry from Black Lawrence Press for your #DisabilityPrideMonth: blacklawrencepress.com/books/black-un…